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Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of bending, curving, and gathering. It also extends to botanical terms for specific plants and their fruits, as well as parts of a grapevine.

Derived headwords

عَقَشَverb

1.
to bend, to curveboth
To bend something or cause it to curve or incline.
2.
to gather, to collectboth
To gather or collect something, such as wealth or possessions.

عَقْشnoun

1.
bending, curvingboth
The act of bending or curving something.
2.
gathering, collectionboth
The act of gathering or collecting.
3.
a plantclassical
A type of herb that grows on the 'thumam' and 'marrkh' plants, twisting around their branches like a ligament, and has a reddish-wine colored fruit.
4.
grapevine shootsclassical
The tips or extremities of grapevine branches.
5.
Salvadora persica fruitclassical
The fruit of the 'arak' tree, also known by other names like 'hathr' and 'kabath'.

عَقْشاًnoun

1.
bending, curvingboth
The act of bending or curving.
2.
gathering, collectionboth
The act of gathering or collecting.

قَعَشَverb

1.
to gather, to collectboth
To gather or collect something, similar to 'aqasha'.

القَعْشnoun

1.
grapevine shootsclassical
The tips or extremities of grapevine branches.

Parallel reading

عقش الع ود عقشا: عطفه وأماله

He bent the stick, inclining it.

عقش المال عقشا، إذا جمعه

He gathered the wealth, collecting it.

وكذلك قعشه

And likewise he collected it.

بقلة تنبت في الثمام والمرخ تتلوى كالعصبة على فرع الثمام

A herb that grows on the 'thumam' and 'marrkh' plants, twisting like a ligament around the branch of the 'thumam'.

ولها ثمرة خمرية إلى الحمرة

And it has a fruit that is wine-colored, tending towards redness.

والعقش، بالفتح ويحرك، كلاهما عن ابن فارس: بقلة تنبت في الثمام والمرخ تتلوى كالعصبة على فرع الثمام

And 'al-'aqsh', with fath and with harakah, both according to Ibn Faris: a herb that grows on the 'thumam' and 'marrkh' plants, twisting like a ligament around the branch of the 'thumam'.

والقعش والعقش: أطراف قضبان الكرم

And 'al-qa'sh' and 'al-'aqsh': the tips of the grapevine branches.

والعقش، بالتحريك: ثمر الأراك

And 'al-'aqsh', with harakah: the fruit of the 'arak' tree.

وهو الحثر، والجهاض والجهاد، والعثلة والكباث

And it is 'al-hathr', 'al-jihadh', 'al-'uthlah', and 'al-kabath'.