خشر

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

The root خشر (khashara) primarily denotes something of low quality, refuse, or dregs. It extends to concepts of being base, inferior, or worthless, and can also refer to the act of cleaning away such undesirable elements. Metaphorically, it can signify cowardice or fleeing.

Derived headwords

الخشار والخشارةnoun

1.
refuse, dregsboth
The worthless or inferior part of anything, especially of goods or produce.
2.
lowly peopleboth
The lowest stratum of people, the common folk.

الخشارةnoun

1.
dregs, refuseboth
Specifically refers to the refuse or dregs of something, such as food left on a table.
2.
lowly peopleboth
The base or inferior part of humanity.

خَشَارَةnoun

1.
refuse, dregsboth
The worthless part of something, like the husks of barley.

خَشَّرَverb

1.
to leave refuseclassical
To leave behind the worthless or undesirable remnants on a table or of any substance.

خَشْرًاnoun

1.
leaving refuseclassical
The act of leaving behind the worthless part of something.

خَشَرَverb

1.
to clean, purifyclassical
To purify something by removing the bad or inferior elements from it.

خَشَرَverb

1.
to be greedyclassical
To be eager or covetous for something, particularly in a commercial sense.

خَشَرَverb

1.
to flee in cowardiceclassical
To run away out of fear or cowardice.

الخاشِرadjective

1.
inferior, baseclassical
Describing something or someone as worthless, base, or of low quality.

الخاشِرَةadjective

1.
inferior, baseclassical
Describing something or someone as worthless, base, or of low quality.

خَشَاوَرَةname

1.
a street nameclassical
A specific street or alleyway in Nishapur, associated with a known scholar.

ذو خَشْرَانname

1.
a tribal or personal nameclassical
A name or epithet associated with a person from the tribe of Alhan ibn Malik.

مَخَاشِرnoun

1.
teeth of a sickleclassical
The serrated teeth or blades of a sickle.

مَخْشُورadjective

1.
despised, worthlessclassical
Something that has been deemed worthless or despised.

الخَشِيرnoun

1.
partner, associateclassical
Used in the Hijaz dialect to mean a partner or associate in business.

خُشَارَة التمرnoun

1.
date pitsboth
The stones or pits of dates.

Parallel reading

الخشار والخشارة: الرديء من كل شيء

Al-khashar and al-khasharah: the inferior of everything.

وخص اللحياني به رديء المتاع

And Al-Lihyani specifically used it for the inferior of goods.

والخشارة: سفلة الناس

And al-khasharah: the base of people.

وفلان من الخشارة، إذا كان دونا وهو مجاز

And so-and-so is from al-khasharah, if he is base, and this is metaphorical.

إذا ذهب الخيار وبقيت خشارة مثل خشارة الشعير لا يبالي بهم الله بالة

When the best people are gone and dregs remain, like the dregs of barley, God will not care for them at all.

وباع بنيه بعضهم بخشارة وبعت لذبيان العلاء بمالكا

And some of them sold their sons for refuse, and I sold Alaa' to Dhubyan for Malika.

الخشار والخشارة: ما لا لب له من الشعير

Al-khashar and al-khasharah: that which has no kernel from barley.

أبقى على المائدة الخشارة، وهي بالضم ما يبقى على المائدة مما لا خير فيه

He left refuse on the table, and it is (with dammah) what remains on the table of that which has no good in it.

وخشر الشيء خشرا: نقّى عنه خشارته، فهو ضد

And he purified the thing, khashran: he cleaned its refuse from it, so it is the opposite.

وخشر المتاع يخشره خشرا: نقّى الرديء منه

And he purified the goods, yakhshuruhu khashran: he cleaned the inferior part from it.

وخشر خشرا، إذا شره

And khashara khashran, if he was greedy.

وخشر كفرح: هرب جبنا

And khashara (like faraha): he fled out of cowardice.

مخاشر المنجل: أسنانه

The makhashir of the sickle: its teeth.

وخشرت الشيء، إذا أرذلته، فهو مخشور

And I deemed the thing worthless, if you made it despised, it is makhshur.

الخشار، كرمان: سفلة الناس

Al-khashar, like 'irman: the base of people.

وخشارة التمر: شيصه

And the khasharah of dates: their pits.