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جعظر

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root describes a person who is coarse, rough, and ill-mannered. It also encompasses traits like being stout, short-legged, gluttonous, arrogant, and stingy. The terms can also refer to physical descriptions of being stout or having a large posterior.

Derived headwords

الجُعْظَرِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    Coarse, roughboth

    Describing someone who is harsh, rude, and ill-mannered.

  2. 2.
    Tall-bodied, gluttonousclassical

    Referring to someone with a large body who eats and drinks excessively and is ungrateful.

  3. 3.
    Arrogantboth

    Describing someone who is haughty and conceited.

  4. 4.
    Short-legged, stoutclassical

    Describing a person who is short in the legs but large in body, possessing strength and eating heartily.

  5. 5.
    Proud of what one lacksclassical

    Someone who is puffed up with pride or possessions they do not actually have.

الجُعْظَارadjective
  1. 1.
    Short-legged, stoutclassical

    Referring to someone who is short in the legs and stout in body.

  2. 2.
    Greedy, gluttonousclassical

    Describing someone who is excessively eager for food.

الجُعْظَرِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    Slow movementclassical

    The slow, deliberate gait of a person, especially one who is heavy or gluttonous and moves with difficulty.

الجُعْظَرnoun
  1. 1.
    Large posteriorclassical

    Describing someone with a large, stout posterior who moves with a swaying gait.

الجُعَنْظَارadjective
  1. 1.
    Greedy, gluttonousclassical

    Describing someone who is extremely greedy and eager for food.

  2. 2.
    Large, stoutclassical

    Referring to someone who is large-bodied, stout, and short-legged.

الجُعَنْظَرadjective
  1. 1.
    Greedy, gluttonousclassical

    Describing someone who is extremely greedy and eager for food.

  2. 2.
    Large, stoutclassical

    Referring to someone who is large-bodied, stout, and short-legged.

الجُعْظَارَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Slow movementclassical

    The slow, deliberate gait of a person, especially one who is heavy or gluttonous and moves with difficulty.

  2. 2.
    Lack of intelligenceclassical

    Describing someone who is foolish or lacks understanding.

  3. 3.
    Conceitedclassical

    Someone who is puffed up with pride or possessions they do not actually have, especially with short stature.

جعظرverb
  1. 1.
    To flee, turn awayclassical

    Describing a man who flees or turns his back, often implying a cowardly or evasive action.

اجعظرverb
  1. 1.
    To rise up for strifeclassical

    To stand up or prepare oneself for conflict, enmity, or aggression.

Parallel reading

الجعظري: الفظ الغليظ
Al-Ja'ẓarī: The coarse, rough one.
أو هو الطويل الجسم (الأكول) الشروب البطر الكفور، كالجظ والجواظ: ما قاله الفراء.
Or he is tall-bodied, (gluttonous), drinking, ungrateful, unbelieving, like al-Jaẓẓ and al-Jawāẓ: this is what Al-Farra' said.
وقيل: هو (الغليظ) المتكبر.
And it was said: he is the (stout) arrogant one.
وقيل: هو (القصير) الرجلين، العظيم الجسم مع قوة وشدة أكل.
And it was said: he is (short) in the legs, large in body with strength and intensity of eating.
وقال أبو عمرو: هو القصير السمين، الأشر، الجافي عن الموعظة.
And Abu 'Amr said: he is short, fat, insolent, and distant from admonition.
نقال ثعلب: هو المتكبر الجافي عن الموعظة.
Tha'lab narrated: he is the arrogant one, distant from admonition.
وقال مرة: هو القصير الغليظ.
And Marra said: he is short and stout.
وقيل: هو (المنتفخ بما ليس عنده).
And it was said: he is (puffed up with what he does not have).
ألا أخبركم بأهل النار، كل جعظري جواظ مناع جماع
Shall I inform you about the people of the Fire? Every coarse, gluttonous, preventing, hoarding one.
كالجعظارة بالكسر، والجعظار، والجعنظار، الثلاثة بمعنى القصير الرجلين، الغليظ الجسم.
Like al-Ja'ẓārah (with kasrah), and al-Ja'ẓār, and al-Ja'naẓār, the three meaning short-legged, stout-bodied.
والجعنظار كجحنبار: (الشره) الحريص (النهم) على لطعام، (أو الأكول الضخم) الغليظ الجسم، القصير الرجلين: (كالجعنظر) ، كسفرجل، كلاهما عن كراع.
And al-Ja'naẓār like Juḥanbār: (the greedy) the eager (the gluttonous) for food, (or the large eater) stout-bodied, short-legged: (like al-Ja'naẓar), like Safarjal, both from Kara'.
والجعظرة: سعي البطيء من الرجال، القريب الخطو يقال: مشى مشي الجعظري إذا تثاقل؛ فإن الأكول النهم يبطيء في سيره وحركت.
And al-Ja'ẓarah: the gait of the slow man, short of step. It is said: he walked the walk of al-Ja'ẓarī when he became sluggish; for the gluttonous eater is slow in his walking and movement.
والجعظر كجعفر: (الضخم الإست) العبل الأرداف، الذي (إذا مشى حركها) وتثاقل.
And al-Ja'ẓar like Ja'far: (large of posterior) stout of buttocks, who (when he walks, moves them) and is sluggish.
والجعظار ، بالكسر: (القصير الغليظ) الجسم.
And al-Ja'ẓār, (with kasrah): (short and stout) of body.
وهو أيضا المنتفخ بما (ليس) عنده مع قصر، والذي لا يألم رأسه.
And he is also the one puffed up with what he does not have, with shortness, and who does not feel pain in his head.
وجعظر الرجل: (فر وولى مدبرا) ؛ وهاكذا شأن الأكول المنتفخ بما ليس عنده.
And the man Ja'ẓara: (he fled and turned away); and thus is the case of the gluttonous one puffed up with what he does not have.
اجعظر: انتصب للشر والعداوة.
Ij'aẓara: he stood up for evil and enmity.