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ه ض ض

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of breaking, crushing, or shattering something. It extends to meanings of moving with force or speed, and metaphorically to causing distress or being a large group.

Derived headwords

هَضَّverb
  1. 1.
    to break, crushboth

    To break something into pieces, to crush it. This is a strong form of breaking, less than complete destruction but more than mere bruising.

  2. 2.
    to move quicklyclassical

    Used to describe animals, particularly camels, moving with speed and urgency.

هَضَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    to break, crushclassical

    To break something, specifically described as less than complete destruction ('hadd') but more than bruising ('rad').

هَضٌّnoun
  1. 1.
    breakingclassical

    The act of breaking or crushing, done with deliberation or over time.

هَضًّاnoun
  1. 1.
    breakingboth

    The act of breaking or crushing.

  2. 2.
    speed, hasteclassical

    Used to describe the rapid movement of camels.

هَضِيضٌadjective
  1. 1.
    broken, crushedclassical

    Describing something that has been broken or crushed.

مَهْضُوضٌadjective
  1. 1.
    broken, crushedclassical

    Describing something that has been broken or crushed.

اهْتَضَّverb
  1. 1.
    to break, crushboth

    To break or crush something.

هَضْهَضَverb
  1. 1.
    to break quicklyclassical

    To break something with haste or in a hurried manner.

  2. 2.
    to crushboth

    To crush or break down.

هَضْهَضَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    hurried breakingclassical

    The act of breaking something with haste, contrasted with breaking done slowly.

تَهَضُّverb
  1. 1.
    to move quicklyclassical

    Used for camels moving with speed.

  2. 2.
    to push each otherclassical

    Describing animals pushing against each other.

  3. 3.
    to walk wellclassical

    Describing a good, flowing gait.

هَضَّاضٌadjective
  1. 1.
    crushing, breakingclassical

    Describing a strong male animal that crushes or breaks things, like a bull that throws and crushes its opponent.

هَضْهَاضٌadjective
  1. 1.
    crushing, breakingclassical

    Similar to 'haḍḍāḍ', describing a strong male animal that crushes or breaks.

هَضَّاضَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    what is brokenclassical

    That which is broken or shattered from someone.

انْهَضَّverb
  1. 1.
    to break, be brokenclassical

    To break or become broken; it is the passive form of 'haḍḍa' and 'ihtaḍḍa'.

اهْتَضْضَتْ نَفْسِيverb phrase
  1. 1.
    I urged myselfclassical

    When one urges oneself to do something or asks more of oneself.

مَهْضَهَضَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    troublesome womanclassical

    A woman who is bothersome or troublesome to her neighbors; used metaphorically.

هَضَّاضٌnoun
  1. 1.
    valleyclassical

    A name for a valley.

هَضَّاضٍnoun
  1. 1.
    valleyclassical

    A name for a valley, with a variant pronunciation.

الهَضَّاءُnoun
  1. 1.
    group of peopleclassical

    A large gathering or group of people.

  2. 2.
    group of horsesclassical

    A group or troop of horses.

  3. 3.
    army unitclassical

    A military unit or battalion, so named because it breaks through things.

هَضَّاضٌnoun
  1. 1.
    valleyclassical

    A name for a valley.

Parallel reading

هضه: كسره كسرا دون الهد وفوق الرض
To break it: to break it with a breaking less than complete destruction and more than bruising.
اهتض الجحاف بهرجا نرد عنها رأسها مشججا
The skin-bag crushed it violently, and we ward off its head, split.
الهضهضة: الكسر إلا أنه في عجلة
Al-haḍhaḍah: is the breaking, except that it is done with haste.
والهض في مهلة
And al-haḍḍ is done with deliberation.
وجاءت الإبل تهض السير هضا، أي أسرعت
And the camels came moving with speed, meaning they hastened.
يقال: لشد ما هضت السير
It is said: How strongly they hastened their pace.
جاءت تهض المشي أي هض يدفع عنها بعضها عن بعض
They came moving with speed, meaning they pushed each other along.
جاء فلان يهز المشي ويهضه، إذا مشى مشيا حسنا في تدافع
So-and-so came moving with a swaying gait and a pushing gait, if he walked with a good, flowing gait.
هض وحض بمعنى واحد
Haḍḍ and Ḥaḍḍ are synonymous.
وسموا هضاضا، مشددة، ومهضا، بالكسر
And they named it Haḍḍāḍ, with a shaddah, and Maḥḍ, with a kasrah.
الهضاء: الجماعة من الناس
Al-haḍḍā': A group of people.
إليه تلجأ الهضاء طرا فليس بقائل هجرا لجار
To him resort all the groups of people, and he will not speak ill of a neighbor.
قد تجاوزتها بهضاء كالجنة يخفون بعض قرع الوفاض
I have passed beyond them with a dense thicket like a garden, hiding some of the knocking of the water skins.
الهضاء: الجماعة من الخيل أيضا
Al-haḍḍā': is also a group of horses.
وهي أيضا: الكتيبة لأنها تهض الأشياء، أي تكسرها
And it is also: the battalion, because it breaks things, meaning it crushes them.
فحل هضاض: يصرع الرجل والبعير ثم ينحي عليه بكلكله
A Haḍḍāḍ bull: it throws down a man and a camel, then lies upon it with its chest.
ما يهتض من أحد
What is broken from someone.
وانهض: انكسر، وهو مطاوع هضه واهتضه
And 'inhaḍḍa': it broke, and it is the passive of 'haḍḍa' and 'ihtaḍḍa'.
اهتضضت نفسي لفلان، إذا استزدتها له
I urged myself for so-and-so, if I asked more of myself for him.
المهضهضة: المرأة المؤذية لجاراتها
Al-mahḍahaḍah: The woman who is troublesome to her neighbors.
هضض، إذا دق الأرض برجليه دقا شديدا
Haḍḍaḍa, if he stamped the ground hard with his feet.
وهضاض وهضاض، جميعا: واد
And Haḍāḍ and Haḍāḍ, both: a valley.
بطن هضاض: واد
The interior of Haḍāḍ: a valley.