بخز

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of blinding or plucking out an eye. It also refers to a specific geographical region and a people inhabiting it, known for their historical interactions with Muslim rulers.

Derived headwords

بَخَزَverb

1.
to blindclassical
To pluck out or blind someone's eye.

بَخَسَverb

1.
to blindclassical
To pluck out or blind someone's eye.

بَخَصَverb

1.
to blindclassical
To pluck out or blind someone's eye.

أَبْخَازname

1.
Abkhaziamodern
A region in the mountains of the Caucasus, beyond the Darband pass, known for its difficult terrain and inhabited by a Christian people called the Georgians (al-Kurj).

Parallel reading

بخز عينه، كمنع، هو بالخاء المعجمة بعد الموحدة

He blinded his eye, like 'mana'a', it is with the dotted kha after the ba.

بخز عينه وبخسها وبخصها إذا فقأها

He blinded his eye, and blinded it, and plucked it out if he gouged it.

وأبخاز، كأنصار: جيل من الناس

And Abkhaz, like 'ansar': a generation of people.

اسم ناحية في جبل القبق المتصل بباب الأبواب

The name of a region in the Jabal al-Qabq connected to Bab al-Abwab.

وهي جبال وعرة صعبة المسلك، لا مجال للخيل فيها

And it is rugged mountains, difficult to traverse, with no room for horses.

تجاوز بلاد اللان، يسكنها أمة من النصارى، يقال لهم الكرج

It is beyond the lands of the Lan, inhabited by a nation of Christians, who are called the Georgians.

وفيها تجمعوا، ونزلوا إلى نواحي تفليس، فصرفوا المسلمين عنها وملكوها في سنة خمس عشرة وخمسمائة

And they gathered there, and descended to the environs of Tbilisi, and they drove the Muslims away from it and conquered it in the year five hundred and fifteen.

حتى قصدهم جلال الدين خوارزم شاه، فأوقع بهم

Until Jalal al-Din Khwarazm Shah approached them, and he inflicted a defeat upon them.

واستنقذ تفليس من أيديهم وهربت ملكتهم إلى أبخاز

And he rescued Tbilisi from their hands, and their queen fled to Abkhazia.

وكان لم يبق من بيت الملك غيرها

And she was the only one left from the royal house.