شيز

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a type of dark, fine-grained wood, often associated with walnut, used for making bowls and utensils. It also extends to a geographical location in Azerbaijan and a description of a reddish-striped pattern.

Derived headwords

الشِّيزnoun

1.
Black wood for bowlsclassical
A type of black, fine-grained wood, often identified with walnut, used for making bowls and troughs.
2.
Wood for combsclassical
A type of wood, described as black, from which combs and similar items are made.

الشِّيزَىnoun

1.
Walnut woodclassical
Specifically refers to walnut wood, which is darkened by fat or oil, used for making large bowls (jifān) and troughs (qiṣāʿ).
2.
Ebony or Sāsam woodclassical
Alternatively identified as ebony or Sāsam wood.
3.
Region in Azerbaijanclassical
A region in Azerbaijan, conquered during the Islamic conquests.

شِيزَىnoun

1.
Bowls made of walnut woodclassical
Large bowls or troughs made from walnut wood.

مُشِيزadjective

1.
Reddish-stripedclassical
Describing something, like cloth or wood, that is striped with a reddish hue, likened to the color of walnut wood.

شَيَّزَهُverb

1.
To stripe with redclassical
To make something striped with a reddish color, similar to the description of 'mushīz'.

تَشْيِيزًاnoun

1.
Striping with redclassical
The act or process of making something striped with a reddish color.

Parallel reading

الشِّيز، بالكسر: خشب أسود للقصاع،

Al-shīz, with a kasra: black wood for bowls.

إنها خشب الجوز ولكن تسود بالدسم فقيل لها شيزى

It is walnut wood but it darkens with fat, so it was called shīzī.

والشيز، لا يغلظ حتى تنحت منه الجفان،

And al-shīz, it does not become thick until large bowls are carved from it.

أو هو أي الشيزى الآبنوس أو الساسم،

Or it, meaning al-shīzī, is ebony or Sāsam wood.

فإن الشيز الذي ذكر إنما تتخذ منه الأمشاط ونحوها، وهو أسود.

For the al-shīz that was mentioned, combs and the like are only made from it, and it is black.

وهو الذي صوبوه، فإن الشيز الذي ذكر إنما تتخذ منه الأمشاط ونحوها، وهو أسود.

And it is what they deemed correct, for the al-shīz that was mentioned, combs and the like are only made from it, and it is black.

وهو الذي تتخذ منه القصاع والجفان، وهو شجر الجوز،

And it is what bowls and troughs are made from, and it is the walnut tree.

وصبا غداة مقامة وزعتها ... بجفان شيزى فوقهن سنام

And a south wind in the morning of a gathering, I distributed them... with bowls of shīzī, above which was a hump (of meat).

ويقال للجفان التي تسوى من هذه الشجرة: الشيزى،

And the large bowls that are made from this tree are called: al-shīzī.

إلى ردح من الشيزى ملاء ... لباب البر يلبك بالشهاد

To a large bowl of al-shīzī, filled... with the finest wheat, mixed with honey.

من الشيزى يربى بالسنام

From al-shīzī, raised with fat/meat.

سمى الجفان شيزى باسم أصلها.

He named the bowls shīzī after their origin.

الشيزى: ناحية بأذربيجان من فتوح المغيرة بن شعبة رضي الله عنه صلحا،

Al-Shīzī: a region in Azerbaijan from the conquests of Al-Mughīrah ibn Shu'bah, may God be pleased with him, by treaty.

ولاية الشيز عزل ... والعزل عنها ولايه

The governorship of Al-Shīz is dismissal... and dismissal from it is governorship.

برد مشيز، كمعظم: مخطط بحمرة،

Mushīz cloth, like 'muʿẓam': striped with redness.

وقد شيزه تشييزا، كأنه شبهه بلن خشب الجوز، لأنه أحمر.

And he made it mushīz (striped), as if he likened it to the color of walnut wood, because it is red.