حرفش

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to roughness, coarseness, and venomous snakes. It is used to describe a rough texture, a venomous snake, and also appears in personal and tribal names.

Derived headwords

الحرافشnoun

1.
roughnessboth
A quality of being rough or coarse to the touch.

الحربشnoun

1.
roughnessboth
A quality of being rough or coarse to the touch, used interchangeably with الحرافش.

حربشname

1.
Harbashboth
A personal name, specifically mentioned as belonging to a man from the Banu al-Anbar tribe.

حربشadjective

1.
rough to the touchboth
Describing an old woman (عجوز) as having a rough texture or feel.

الحربيشadjective

1.
venomous snakeclassical
A type of snake, specifically an adder (أفعى), characterized by its venom.
2.
roughclassical
Describing something as rough or coarse, as in the phrase أفعى حربيش.

حربيشadjective

1.
venomous snakeclassical
A type of snake, specifically an adder (أفعى), characterized by its venom and loud hissing sound.
2.
two-horned snakeclassical
A specific type of snake, possibly an adder, described as having two horns.

Parallel reading

والحرافش، وقد يقول بعض العرب الحربش

And Al-Harfash, and some Arabs may say Al-Harbash.

هل تلد الحربش إلا حربشا

Does Al-Harbash give birth to anything but a Harbash?

وهو كقولهم: هل تلد الحية إلا حية

And this is like their saying: Does a snake give birth to anything but a snake?

وحربش بن نمير بن والبة بن الحارث بن ثعلبة بن دودان

And Harbash son of Numayr son of Waliba son of Al-Harith son of Tha'laba son of Dudan.

وحربش: رجل آخر في بني العنبر من بني تميم

And Harbash: another man from the Banu al-Anbar of the Banu Tamim.

وعجوز حربش: خشنة المس

And a rough old woman: coarse to the touch.

الحربيش، كقنديل: الخشن

Al-Harbish, like Qandeel: the rough.

يقال: أفعى حربيش

It is said: a venomous adder.

أصبحت من حرص على التأريش ... غضبى كأفعى الرمثة الحربيش

I have become, from eagerness for provocation... angry like a venomous adder of the Rammah.

أفعى حربش، وحربيش: كثيرة السم

A rough adder, and Harbish: full of venom.

شديدة صوت الجسد إذا حكت بعضها ببعض متحرشة

Intense is the sound of its body when it rubs parts of itself together, provoking.

وقيل: الحربيش: حية كالأفعى ذات قرنين

And it was said: Al-Harbish: a snake like an adder with two horns.

وبه فسر قول رؤبة

And with this, the saying of Ru'bah was interpreted.