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شبص

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root describes a state of roughness, entanglement, or intertwining, particularly concerning thorny plants or dense thickets. It conveys the idea of things being closely packed or interwoven.

Derived headwords

الشَّبَصnoun
  1. 1.
    Roughnessclassical

    A quality of being rough or coarse to the touch.

  2. 2.
    Entanglementclassical

    The state of being tangled or intertwined, especially referring to the thorns of trees.

تشبصverb
  1. 1.
    to become entangledclassical

    The verb form indicating that thorny plants have become intertwined and interwoven with each other.

وقد تشبص الشجر — And the trees became entangled
التشبيصnoun
  1. 1.
    Entanglementclassical

    The act or state of being entangled, referring to the intertwining of thorny branches.

Parallel reading

هو الخشونة
It is roughness.
وتداخل شوك الشجر بعضه في بعض
And the thorns of the trees intermingling with each other.
وقد تشبص الشجر: اشتبك ودخل بعضه في بعض
And the trees became entangled: they intertwined and entered into each other.
لغة يمانية
A Yamanite dialect.
متخذا عريسه في العيص وفي دغال أشب التشبيص
Taking his resting place in the thicket and in the dense undergrowth resembling entanglement.
هكذا أورده ابن القطاع أيضا في كتاب الأبنية له
Thus Ibn al-Qatta' also cited it in his book on word formation.