فلز

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns metals, particularly white copper (tin), and by extension, precious metals and minerals. It also extends metaphorically to describe a strong, unyielding, or stingy person, and a type of tax or levy.

Derived headwords

الفِلِزّnoun

1.
tinclassical
A white metal, often referred to as white copper, used to make large hollowed-out pots and mortars.
2.
drossclassical
The impurities skimmed off when gold, silver, or iron is melted.
3.
stonesclassical
Refers to rocks or stones.
4.
mineralsclassical
All the precious stones and metals found in the earth, such as gold, silver, and copper.
5.
slagclassical
What is expelled by the furnace from all the melted earth minerals.

الفِلِزّnoun

1.
strong manclassical
A strong, hard, and coarse man, likened to metal.

الفِلِزّnoun

1.
taxclassical
A levy or tax upon which swords are tested.

فلِزّadjective

1.
stingyclassical
Used metaphorically to describe a stingy man, due to his coarseness and hardness in his stinginess, as if he were solid iron unaffected by anything.

Parallel reading

الفلز، بكسر الفاء واللام وشد الزاي، هذه اللغة المشهورة

Al-filizz, with kasra on the fa and lam and shadda on the za, this is the famous pronunciation.

فيه لغتان أخريان: الفلز والفلز، كهجف وعتل

There are two other pronunciations: al-filiz and al-fuluz, like hajaf and 'utal.

نحاس أبيض، تجعل منه القدور العظام المفرغة والهاوونات

White copper, from which large hollowed-out pots and mortars are made.

أو هو خبث ما أذيب من الذهب والفضة والحديد

Or it is the dross of what has been melted from gold, silver, and iron.

الفلز: الحجارة

Al-filizz: stones.

أو هو جواهر الأرض كلها من الذهب والفضة والنحاس وأشباهها

Or it is all the precious stones of the earth, like gold, silver, copper, and their likes.

أو هو ما ينفيه الكير من كل ما يذاب منها، أي من جواهر الأرض

Or it is what the furnace expels from all that is melted from them, i.e., from the precious stones of the earth.

الفلز: الرجل الشديد الصلب الغليظ، تشبيها بما تقدم

Al-filizz: the strong, hard, coarse man, by analogy with what was mentioned before.

الفلز أيضا: الضريبة التي تجرب عليها السيوف

Al-filizz also: the levy upon which swords are tested.

قد يستعار فيقال للرجل البخيل: فلز، لغلظه وشدته في بخله، كأنه حديد صلب لا يؤثر فيه شيء

It may be used metaphorically, so a stingy man is called 'filizz', due to his coarseness and hardness in his stinginess, as if he were solid iron unaffected by anything.