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ه ر د ش

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to be related to terms for old or large female animals, specifically camels and sheep. It also extends to describe an old woman.

Derived headwords

الهَرْدَشَةnoun
  1. 1.
    old female camelclassical

    A term for an old female camel, specifically one that is past the stage of being a 'shurūf' (a camel that has given birth many times).

هَرْدَشnoun
  1. 1.
    old female camelclassical

    An old female camel, similar to 'hardashah'.

  2. 2.
    old eweclassical

    A large old ewe.

  3. 3.
    old womanclassical

    An old woman.

Parallel reading

الهردشة، بالكسر، أهمله الجوهري، وقال الأزهري، في أثناء كلامه على هرشف: هي الناقة الهرمة بعد الشروف، كالهرشفة، والهرهر، قال الصاغاني: وكذلك العجوز، والنعجة الكبيرة: هردش هكذا أورده بغير هاء عن ابن عباد.
Al-hardashah (with kasrah) was neglected by Al-Jawhari. Al-Azhari said, in the course of his discussion on 'harshaf': It is the aged female camel after the shurūf, like al-harshafah, and al-harhar. Al-Saghani said: Likewise the old woman, and the large ewe: hardash, thus he transmitted it without the 'taa' from Ibn 'Abbad.