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ذعذع

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the semantic field of scattering, dispersing, and spreading. It extends to actions like shaking vigorously, spreading news, and also describes things that are scattered or of poor quality.

Derived headwords

ذَعْذَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to scatterboth

    To disperse wealth or other things widely.

  2. 2.
    to shake vigorouslyboth

    The wind shaking trees or dust intensely.

ذَعْذَعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    scatteringclassical

    The act of dispersing or scattering.

  2. 2.
    spreading newsclassical

    The act of spreading or divulging a secret or news.

تَذَعْذَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to be scatteredboth

    To be dispersed or scattered, often referring to people or parts of a structure.

  2. 2.
    to become disheveledclassical

    Hair becoming messy or disheveled.

ذَعْذَاعadjective
  1. 1.
    gossipyboth

    One who spreads secrets and is a talebearer; does not keep secrets.

الذَّعَاعnoun
  1. 1.
    scattered thingsclassical

    The scattered parts or remnants of something.

  2. 2.
    poor datesclassical

    Inferior dates, specifically those that are scattered or separated from the main cluster.

ذَعَاذِعnoun
  1. 1.
    scattered partsboth

    Scattered pieces or remnants, used to describe the state of being dispersed.

ذَعَاذِعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    scattered thingclassical

    A single scattered part or remnant.

مُذْعَذِعadjective
  1. 1.
    illegitimate childclassical

    An illegitimate child or a foundling; a spurious offspring.

Parallel reading

ذعذع المال وغيره: بدده.
To scatter wealth and other things: to disperse them.
قيل: حركه وفرقه.
It is said: to move and to scatter them.
ذعذعهم الدهر: فرقهم.
Time scattered them: it dispersed them.
ما فعلت بإبلك وكانت له إبل كثيرة، فقال: ذعذعتها النوائب، وفرقتها الحقوق، فقال: ذلك خير سبلها، أي خير ما خرجت فيه.
What did you do with your camels, and he had many camels, and he said: Calamities scattered them, and obligations dispersed them, and he said: That is the best way for them to go, meaning the best in which they were spent.
فتذعذع، أي تبدد وتفرق.
And so it scattered, meaning it dispersed and separated.
وأصل الذعذعة بمعنى التفريق، من ذعذع السر ذعذعة، أو الخبر، أي أذاعه، فلما كرر استعمل، كما قالوا من إناخة البعير: نخنخ بعيره فتنخنخ.
The origin of 'dha'dha'ah' is in the meaning of scattering, from scattering a secret, or news, meaning to divulge it, and when repeated it was used, as they said about making a camel kneel: he made his camel kneel, and it knelt.
وذعذعت الريح الشجر: حركته تحريكا شديدا، عن ابن دريد، وكذلك ذعذعت الريح التراب، إذا ذرته وسفته، كل ذلك معناه واحد.
And the wind scattered the trees: it moved them intensely, according to Ibn Duraid, and likewise the wind scattered the dust, if it blew it away and swept it, all of that has one meaning.
غشيت لها منازل مقويات ... تذعذعها مذعذعة حنون
I covered for her strong dwellings... scattered by a scattering, gentle one.
والذعاع، كسحاب: الفرق الواحد ذعاعة كسحابة، كما في الصحاح.
And 'al-dha'a'a', like 'sahab': the singular is 'dha'a'ah', like 'sahabah', as in Al-Sihah.
الذعاعة من النخل: رديئه، وهو ما تفرق منه، كذعاذعه.
The 'dha'a'ah' of dates: its inferior ones, which is what scatters from it, like its scattered parts.
في ذعاع النخل تجترمه
In the scattered dates, he harvests it.
يقال: الذعاع: ما بين النخلة إلى النخلة ويضم، ومنهم من جعل إهمال الدال لغة، وقد تقدم ذلك.
It is said: 'Al-dha'a'a' is what is between one palm tree and another, and it is contracted. Some made the omission of the 'd' a dialect, and that has been mentioned before.
ورجل ذعذاع: مذياع للسر نمام، لا يكتم السر من ذعذعة السر: إذاعته.
And a 'dha'dha'' man: one who spreads secrets, a talebearer, does not keep secrets from the scattering of a secret: its divulgence.
لا يحبنا أهل البيت المذعذع.
The people of the house do not love us, the illegitimate one.
قالوا: وما المذعذع قال: ولد الزنا.
They said: And what is 'al-mudha'dha''? He said: The child of fornication.
تفرقوا ذعاذع، أي ها هنا، وها هنا.
They scattered 'dha'dha'' (in all directions), meaning here, and here.
تذعذع البناء: تفرقت أجزاؤه، قاله ابن بري.
The building scattered: its parts dispersed, said Ibn Birri.
بادت وأمسى خيمها تذعذعا
They perished and their tents became scattered.
وتذعذع شعره: إذا تشعث وتمرط.
And his hair scattered: if it became disheveled and fell out.