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خ ر ف ع

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily discusses a specific type of plant or its fruit, often associated with the 'ashar plant. It refers to the unripe or developing fruit, its fluffy interior resembling cotton, and sometimes the cotton itself.

Derived headwords

الخرفعnoun
  1. 1.
    Unripe 'ashar fruitclassical

    The unripe fruit of the 'ashar plant, before it opens, described as having a fluffy interior.

  2. 2.
    Cottonboth

    Cotton, particularly when it is fluffy or processed.

  3. 3.
    Bad cottonclassical

    Inferior or spoiled cotton, especially in its early stages of development.

خرفعاnoun
  1. 1.
    Unripe 'ashar fruitclassical

    The unripe fruit of the 'ashar plant, before it opens, described as having a fluffy interior.

خرفعا خشفاnoun
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    Tender unripe 'ashar fruitclassical

    A specific type of unripe 'ashar fruit, described as tender or young.

خرفعا ندفاnoun
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    Fluffy unripe 'ashar fruitclassical

    Unripe 'ashar fruit characterized by its fluffy or downy interior.

الخرفعnoun
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    Fruit of the 'ashar plantclassical

    The fruit of the 'ashar plant, which has a thin skin and a cotton-like interior.

خرفعاnoun
  1. 1.
    Fruit of the 'ashar plantclassical

    The fruit of the 'ashar plant, which has a thin skin and a cotton-like interior.

الخرفعnoun
  1. 1.
    Cottonboth

    Cotton, especially when it is fluffy or processed.

الخرفع المندوفnoun
  1. 1.
    Carded cottonboth

    Cotton that has been carded or fluffed up.

الخرفعnoun
  1. 1.
    Cotton (with kasra)both

    Cotton, referred to with a kasra on the first letter.

الخرفعnoun
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    Cotton (variant pronunciation)classical

    A variant pronunciation of the word for cotton, with a kasra on the first letter and a damma on the second.

Parallel reading

هو القطن الفاسد في براعيمه، وهي الأكمة قبل أن تتفتق.
It is the spoiled cotton in its buds, and it is the mound before it bursts open.
هو القطن عامة.
It is cotton in general.
الخرفع: ما يكون في جراء العشر، وهو حراق الأعراب.
Al-kharfa': What is found in the young 'ashar plant, and it is the 'harraq al-a'rab.
هو ثمر العشر، وله جلدة رقيقة إذا انشقت عنه ظهر منه مثل القطن.
It is the fruit of the 'ashar, and it has a thin skin; when it splits open, something like cotton appears from it.
يعتاد خيشومها من قرطها زبد ... كأن بالأنف منها خرفعا خشفا
Its nostril is accustomed to foam from its earring... as if from its nose is tender khirfa'.
الخرفع: جنى العشر.
Al-kharfa': The fruit of the 'ashar.
يخرج للعشر نفاخ، كأنه شقاشق الجمال التي تهدر فيها، ويخرج في جوف ذلك النفاخ حراق لم يقتدح الناس في أجود منه، ويحشونه المخاد والوسائد.
A sac emerges from the 'ashar, resembling the throats of camels when they bellow. Inside that sac emerges a 'harraq, which people have not found better than, and they stuff it into pillows and cushions.
ثمر العشر الخرفع، حشوه زغب مثل القطن يحشى به.
The fruit of the 'ashar is al-kharfa', its stuffing is down like cotton, with which it is stuffed.
وشبه الشعراء الزبد الذي يخطم خراطيم الإبل به، قال ابن مقبل: (يضحي على خطمها من قرطها زبد ... كأن بالرأس منها خرفعا ندفا)
And the poets likened the foam with which the camels' muzzles are adorned to it, Ibn Muqbil said: (Its muzzle becomes covered in foam from its earring... as if from its head is fluffy khirfa').
هو القطن المندوف نقله الأزهري وهو قول أبي عمرو.
It is the carded cotton, as narrated by Al-Azhari, and it is the opinion of Abu Amr.
كالخرفع، كزبرج، كما زعمه بعض الرواة.
Like al-kharfa', like zubruj, as claimed by some narrators.
القطن يقال له الخرفع بالكسر.
Cotton is called al-kharfa' with a kasra.
أم تغزلون الخرفع المندوفا
Or are you spinning the carded khirfa'?
الخرفع، بكسر الخاء وضم الفاء: لغة في الخرفع والخرفع، كقنفذ وزبرج، نقله صاحب اللسان عن ابن جنى.
Al-kharfa', with a kasra on the kha' and a damma on the fa': is a dialectal form of al-kharfa' and al-kharfa', like qunfudh and zubruj, as reported by the author of Al-Lisan from Ibn Jinni.