ر ف ش

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of scooping, shoveling, or scraping, often with a tool like a shovel or spade. It extends to meanings of eating heartily, enjoying abundance, and also to physical attributes like large ears or a wide beard. Figuratively, it can mean rising from lowliness to high status.

Derived headwords

الرَّفْشnoun

1.
shovel, spadeboth
A tool used for scooping or shoveling, such as a large spade or shovel.
2.
scraping, scoopingclassical
The act of scraping or scooping, often with a tool.
3.
eating heartilyclassical
The act of eating well and heartily, consuming food with gusto.
4.
abundance, luxuryclassical
Enjoying food and drink in a state of prosperity and security.
5.
ship's scoopclassical
A scoop or shovel used on a ship.

رفشverb

1.
to shovel, to scoopboth
To use a shovel or spade to move or scoop something.
2.
to eat heartilyclassical
To eat food with great appetite and enjoyment.
3.
to scrapeclassical
To scrape or rub something.
4.
to spreadclassical
To spread something, like a beard, until it becomes wide.

يَرْفِشverb

1.
he shovelsboth
He shovels or scoops something.
2.
he eats heartilyclassical
He eats food with great appetite and enjoyment.

رَفَشَverb

1.
to shovelboth
To use a shovel or spade to move or scoop something.
2.
to eat heartilyclassical
To eat food with great appetite and enjoyment.

رُفِشَverb

1.
it was shoveledboth
Something was shoveled or scooped.

رَفْشnoun

1.
shovelingboth
The act of shoveling or scooping.
2.
hearty eatingclassical
The act of eating well and heartily.

المِرْفَشnoun

1.
shovelboth
A tool used for shoveling or scooping.
2.
well-mashedclassical
Something that has been thoroughly mashed or pounded.

رَفَّاشnoun

1.
food scooperclassical
A tool or person that scoops food with a shovel towards a measurer.

رُفُوشnoun

1.
abundance, luxuryclassical
A state of enjoying food and drink in prosperity and security.

أَرْفَشَverb

1.
to be wide-earedclassical
To have wide or large ears.
2.
to indulgeclassical
To indulge in eating, drinking, and sexual pleasure.
3.
to lingerclassical
To stay in a place persistently, as if enjoying its comforts.

أَرْفَشُ الأُذُنَيْنadjective

1.
wide-earedclassical
Having wide or large ears.

تَرْفِيشnoun

1.
combing, stylingclassical
The act of combing or styling a beard until it becomes wide and spread out.

المَرْفُوشadjective

1.
well-poundedclassical
Something that has been thoroughly pounded or mashed.
2.
thoroughly eatenclassical
Something that has been completely consumed or eaten up.

رفيشname

1.
a male given nameclassical
A proper name for a male, as in the historical figure Omar bin Yusuf bin Rofaysh.

Parallel reading

هو بالفتح، والضم، لغتان، سوادية، وهي المجرفة يرفش بها البر رفشا، كالمرفشة، يسميها بعضهم هكذا.

It is with fathah, and dammah, two linguistic variants; a spade, which is the shovel with which one shovels the soil, like the mirfashah, which some call it thus.

وقولهم للرجل يشرف بعد خموله أو يعز بعد ذلة: من الرفش إلى العرش.

And their saying about a man who becomes prominent after his obscurity or honored after his humiliation: from the shovel to the throne.

أي قعد على العرش بعد ضربه بالرفش، كناسا أو ملاحا

Meaning he sat on the throne after hitting it with a shovel, as a sweeper or a boatman.

أي جلس على سرير الملك بعدما كان يعمل بالمجرفة

Meaning he sat on the king's throne after he had been working with a shovel.

والرفش: الدق، لغة في السين المهملة، والرفش: الهرش، هكذا بالشين المعجمة في سائر النسخ، والصواب: الهرس بالسين، كما قيده الصاغاني بخطه، وهو الأكل الجيد

And ar-rafsh: pounding, a variant using the unpointed 's', and ar-rafsh: scratching, thus with the pointed 'sh' in other copies, and the correct reading is: al-hars with 's', as al-Saghani recorded in his handwriting, and it means good eating.

يقال للذي يجيد الأكل: إنه ليرفش الطعام رفشا، ويهرسه هرسا

It is said of one who eats well: he truly shovels food with shoveling, and mashes it with mashing.

والرفش: الأكل والشرب في النعمة والأمن.

And ar-rafsh: eating and drinking in prosperity and security.

والرفاش، ككتان: هائل الطعام بالمجرفة إلى يد الكيال.

And ar-raffash, like kattan: the scooper of food with a shovel to the hand of the measurer.

ورفش في الشيء رفوشا: اتسع.

And rafasha fi ash-shay' rafushan: it became wide.

ورفش، كفرح، رفشا: عظمت أذنه وكبرت، شبه بالرفش، وهي المجرفة من الخشب يجرف بها الطعام

And rafasha, like faraha, rafshan: his ear became large and big, likened to ar-rafsh, which is the wooden shovel used to scoop food.

ومننه الحديث كان سلمان رضي الله تعالى عنه أرفش الأذنين، قال شمر: أي عريضهما.

And from it is the hadith: Salman, may God Almighty be pleased with him, had wide ears, Shammar said: meaning their breadth.

ويقال: أرفش فلان، إذا وقع في الأهيغين، أي الرفش والقفش، وهما: الأكل والشرب في نعمة، والنكاح.

And it is said: Fulani arfasha, if he falls into the two extremes, meaning ar-rafsh and al-qafsh, and they are: eating and drinking in prosperity, and sexual intercourse.

وأرفش بالبلد: ألح فلا يبرح ولا يريمه، كأنه وقع في النعمة.

And arfasha bil-balad: he persisted and did not leave or move from it, as if he had fallen into prosperity.

وترفيش اللحية: تسريحها حتى تصير كأنها رفش، أي مجرفة.

And tarfīsh al-liḥyah: combing it until it becomes like a rafsh, meaning a shovel.

الرفش: مجراف السفينة.

Ar-rafsh: the scoop of the ship.

والمرفوش: المدقوق جيدا، أو المأكول المستأصل.

And al-marfūsh: well-pounded, or thoroughly eaten.

ورفش البر: جرفه.

And rafsh al-barr: to shovel the soil.