ع ن ق ش

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of meanness, lowliness, and perhaps a clinging or tenacious quality. It also touches upon the idea of wandering or traveling to sell goods, and physical thinness or weakness.

Derived headwords

العُنقاشnoun

1.
mean personclassical
A contemptible and base individual.
2.
itinerant sellerclassical
One who travels around villages selling various items.

العنقشةnoun

1.
clingingclassical
The act of clinging or holding onto something tenaciously.

العنقشnoun

1.
thinnessclassical
A state of extreme thinness or emaciation.

تعنقشverb

1.
to writheclassical
To twist and contort oneself, often in distress or struggle.
2.
to brace oneselfclassical
To stiffen or brace oneself, perhaps in defiance or preparation.

عنقشname

1.
nameclassical
A proper name, possibly with a redundant 'n' according to Ibn Duraid.

Parallel reading

لما رماني القوم بابني عمي بالقرد عنقاش وبالأصم

When the people attacked me with my two cousins, the monkey-like 'Unqash and the deaf one,

قلت لها يا نفس لا تهتمي

I said to her, 'O soul, do not worry.'

والعنقاش: الذي يطوف في القرى يبيع الأشياء

And al-'Unqash: he who wanders in the villages selling things.

والعنقشة: التعلق بالشيء

And al-'Unqashah: clinging to something.

والعنقش، بلا هاء: الهزال

And al-'Unqash, without the 'ha': thinness.

وتعنقش: تلوى وتشدد

And ta'anqasha: he writhed and stiffened.

عنقش، كجعفر: اسم، والنون فيه زائدة

'Unqush, like Ja'far: a name, and the 'nun' in it is superfluous.