قهز

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns fine textiles, particularly those made from wool or silk, often dyed red or white. It also extends to meanings related to leaping or jumping, and to descriptions of animals and people.

Derived headwords

القَهْزnoun

1.
fine wool/silk clothclassical
A type of fine cloth made from red wool, similar to that of sheep. It might sometimes be mixed with silk.
2.
white cloth with silkclassical
Another description refers to white garments mixed with silk.

القَهْزِيّadjective

1.
made of qahz clothclassical
An adjective relating to or made from the fine cloth described as 'qahz'.

قَهَزَverb

1.
to leap, to jump
To make a sudden jump or leap.

القَهِيزnoun

1.
silkclassical
This term is identified as referring to silk.

القَهْقَزَاتnoun

1.
noble camelsclassical
The plural form referring to distinguished and noble camels.

القَهْقَزَةnoun

1.
noble camelclassical
The singular form for a distinguished and noble camel.

القَهْقَزnoun

1.
blackclassical
This term is used to denote the color black.

القَهْقَزِيَّةnoun

1.
short womanclassical
A term used to describe a short woman.

Parallel reading

القهز، بالفتح، ويكسر، وقال الليث: الأولى لغة جيدة في الثانية

Al-qahz, with fathah, and with dammah; and Al-Layth said: the first is a good pronunciation for the second.

والقهزي، بياء النسب: ثياب تتخذ من صوف أحمر كالمرعزى

And al-qahzi, with the yaa' of attribution: garments made from red wool like that of sheep.

وربما يخالطه، هكذا في النسخ، والصواب: يخالطها الحرير

And perhaps it is mixed with it, as written in the manuscripts, and the correct reading is: it is mixed with silk.

وأصله بالفارسية كهزانه

And its origin is in Persian as 'kahzaneh'.

وقد يشبه الشعر والعفاء به

And hair and dust may resemble it.

يصف حمر الوحش، يقول: سقط عنها العفاء ونبت تحته شعر لين.

Describing wild asses, he says: the dust fell off it and soft hair grew beneath it.

وقال أبو عبيدة: القهز: ثياب بيض يخالطها حرير

And Abu Ubaydah said: Al-qahz: white garments mixed with silk.

من الزرق أو صقع كأن رؤوسها ... من القهز والقوهي بيض المقانع

From the blue or the dark, as if their heads... from al-qahz and al-quwwahi are white head coverings.

كأن لون القهز في خصورها ... والقبطري البيض في تأزيرها

As if the color of al-qahz is on their waists... and the white al-qubtari in their girdles.

وقهز، كمنع: وثب.

And qahaza, like man'a: to leap.

والقهيز، كأمير: القز.

And al-qahiz, like amir: silk.

والقهقزات: العظام الكرام من الإبل. الواحدة قهقزة.

And al-qahqazaat: the noble, great camels. The singular is qahqazah.

والقهقز: الأسود.

And al-qahqaz: the black.

وهي بهاء.

And it is splendor.

والقهقزية: القصيرة من النساء، قاله الصاغاني.

And al-qahqaziyyah: the short woman, said Al-Saghani.