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وخز

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of a light, non-penetrating prick or stab, often with a sharp object. It extends to meanings of a small amount of something, a minor transgression, or a slight illness like plague.

Derived headwords

الوَخْزnoun
  1. 1.
    prick, stabboth

    A light prick or stab with a spear, dagger, or similar object, which is not deep or penetrating.

  2. 2.
    slight illnessboth

    Used to describe a minor ailment, such as a plague or a feeling of pain.

  3. 3.
    small amountboth

    A small quantity of something, such as greenness in a date cluster or gray hairs in a head.

  4. 4.
    sin, transgressionclassical

    A minor sin or transgression, often described as a small amount among many.

  5. 5.
    mixingclassical

    The act of mixing or mingling.

الوخز، كالوعد: الطعن بالرمح وغيره كالخنجر ونحوه، لا يكون نافذا — The prick, like the promise: a stab with a spear or other like a dagger, etc., which is not penetrating.
وَخَزَverb
  1. 1.
    to prick lightlyboth

    To prick or stab lightly with a sharp object, not deeply.

فوخزه به وخزا خفيفا لا يبلغ العصب — so he pricked it with it a light prick that did not reach the nerve.
وَخْزnoun
  1. 1.
    light prickboth

    A light, weak prick or stab, similar to a nudge.

والوخز كالنخس، ويكون من الطعن الخفيف الضعيف — And the prick is like a nudge, and it is from a light, weak stab.
التَبْزِيغnoun
  1. 1.
    pricking (hoof)classical

    The act of pricking a horse's hoof with a lancet, often as a form of treatment.

الوخز أيضا: التبزيغ — The prick is also: the pricking (of a hoof).
مِبْضَعnoun
  1. 1.
    lancetboth

    A surgical instrument used for pricking or lancing, such as for treating a hoof.

إذا عمد إلى أشاعره بمبضع فوخزه به — when he intended to his hoofs with a lancet and pricked it with it.
التَّوْدِيجnoun
  1. 1.
    phlebotomy (animal)classical

    The act of opening a vein of an animal to let blood, distinct from a prick.

وأما فصد عرق الدابة، وإخراج الدم منه فيقال له: التوديج — As for phlebotomizing the vein of a beast and drawing blood from it, it is called: al-tawdīj.
الوَخِيزnoun
  1. 1.
    honey-soaked breadclassical

    A dish made of bread soaked in honey.

الوخز: عمل الوخيز، كأمير، وهو ثريد العسل — Al-wakhz: the making of al-wakhīz, like amīr, which is honey-soaked bread.
مُوَخَّزadjective
  1. 1.
    gray-haired (partially)classical

    Describing someone whose hair is partially grayed, with strands of white appearing among black hair.

فهو موخوز — so he is muwakhkhaz (partially gray-haired).
القُتَيْرnoun
  1. 1.
    grayness (in hair)classical

    The appearance of gray or white hairs, especially when scattered among darker hair.

يقال: وخزه القتير وخزا — It is said: al-qutayr pricked him with wakhz (meaning his hair became gray).
أَفَاوِيجnoun
  1. 1.
    groups, bandsclassical

    Groups or bands of people arriving together, often in succession.

وإذا جاءوا عصبة قيل: جاءوا أفاويج، أي فوجا فوجا — And if they came as a group, it is said: they came afāwīj, meaning group by group.
سَفَرnoun
  1. 1.
    plagueclassical

    A widespread epidemic disease, specifically the plague.

قد أعجل القوم عن حاجاتهم سفر ... من وخز جن بأرض الروم مذكور — Travel (plague) has hastened the people from their needs... mentioned from the prick of jinn in the land of Rome.
وَجَعnoun
  1. 1.
    pain, acheboth

    A feeling of pain or ache, particularly in the hands.

إني لأجد في يدي وخزا، أي وجعا — I find in my hand a wakhz, meaning a pain.

Parallel reading

فإنه {وخز إخوانكم من الجن
for it is a prick from your brothers among the jinn
إنما هو وخز من الشيطان
it is only a prick from Satan
وقيل: الوخز: هو الطعن النافذ
And it was said: Al-wakhz is the penetrating stab.
قال أبو عدنان يقال: بزغ البيطار الحافر، إذا عمد إلى أشاعره بمبضع
Abu Adnan said: It is said, the farrier pricked the hoof when he intended with a lancet
وخز في سنامها بمبضعه
pricked in its hump with his lancet
والوخز كالنخس، ويكون من الطعن الخفيف الضعيف
And the prick is like a nudge, and it is from a light, weak stab.
الوخز: القليل من كل شيء
Al-wakhz: a little of everything.
ويطلق على القليل من الخضرة في العذق، والشيب في الرأس
And it is applied to a little greenness in a date cluster, and grayness in the head.
لها أشارير من لحم تتمره ... من الثعالي! ووخز من أرانيها
She has streaks of flesh that ripen... from the foxes! And a prick from her arāniyā (a type of plant).
الوخز شيء منه ليس بالكثير
Al-wakhz is something of it that is not much.
وقال اللحياني: الوخز: الخطيئة
And Al-Lihyani said: Al-wakhz: the sin.
معنى الخطيئة: القليل بين ظهراني الكثير
The meaning of sin: a little among many.
هذه أرض بني تميم وفيها وخز من بني عامر، أي قليل
This is the land of Banu Tamim and in it is a wakhz from Banu 'Amir, meaning a few.
سوى أن وخزا من كلاب بن مرة ... تنزوا إلينا من نقيعة جابر
Except for a few from Kilab bin Murrah... they came to us from Jabir's alliance.
الشعرة بعد الشعرة تشيب وباقي الرأس أسود
A hair after a hair turns gray while the rest of the head is black.
يقال: وخزه القتير وخزا، ولهزه لهزا، بمعنى واحد، إذا شمط مواضع من لحيته
It is said: Al-qutayr pricked him with wakhz, and nudged him with lahz, meaning one thing, if grayness appeared in places on his beard.
الوخز: عمل الوخيز، كأمير، وهو ثريد العسل
Al-wakhz: the making of al-wakhīz, like amīr, which is honey-soaked bread.
جاءوا وخزا وخزا، أي أربعة أربعة
They came wakhzan wakhzan, meaning four by four.
الوخز: ما أرطب من البسر
Al-wakhz: what ripens from the unripe dates.
والوخز: الطاعون نفسه
And al-wakhz: the plague itself.
قد أعجل القوم عن حاجاتهم سفر ... من وخز جن بأرض الروم مذكور
The people were hastened from their needs by a plague... mentioned from the prick of jinn in the land of Rome.
إني لأجد في يدي وخزا، أي وجعا
I find in my hand a wakhz, meaning a pain.
والوخز: المخالطة
And al-wakhz: mixing.