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ح ث ر ف

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to roughness, redness, and instability. It describes physical qualities like coarseness and a reddish hue in the eye, as well as the act of shaking or moving something unstably. It can also refer to things scattering or becoming dispersed.

Derived headwords

الحَثْرَفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Roughness and redness of the eyeclassical

    This refers to a condition of coarseness and a reddish color that appears in the eye.

حَثْرَفَverb
  1. 1.
    To shake, to move unstablyclassical

    To cause something to be unsteady or to move it from its place in a way that suggests instability.

تَحَثْرَفَverb
  1. 1.
    To scatter, to disperseclassical

    This describes a situation where something scatters or disperses, particularly from one's hand.

Parallel reading

الحثرفة، أهمله الجوهري، وقال ابن دريد، هي الخشونة، والحمرة تكون في العين.
Al-ḥathrafah, whom Al-Jawhari neglected, and Ibn Duraid said, it is roughness, and redness that occurs in the eye.
وحثرفه عن موضعه: زعزعه وحركه، وليس بثبءت.
And he shook it from its place: he made it unsteady and moved it, and it is not firm.
وتحثرف: الشيء من يدي: إذا تبدد، في بعض اللغات.
And the thing scattered from my hand: if it dispersed, in some languages.