عرف

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts related to the posterior part of an animal, specifically the hindquarters or tail region. It also extends to parts of a camel's hump and structures used in saddles and animal yokes, as well as a specific plant with medicinal properties.

Derived headwords

العَرصَافnoun

1.
elongated hindquartersclassical
The elongated part of the hindquarters, often referring to the flanks and loins of an animal.
2.
part of a howdahclassical
A tuft or bundle of the hindquarters used to secure the upper part of a howdah (a seat on a camel's back).

العراصيفnoun

1.
parts of a saddleclassical
The four pegs that connect the tops of the curved parts of a saddle (aqtab). Each curved part has two pegs secured by a hindquarter or camel hides, and also includes the fetlocks.
2.
parts of a saddleclassical
The two wooden pieces that connect the middle and rear of a saddle, left and right.
3.
parts of a camel's humpclassical
The extremities of a camel's hump, referring to the bony structures on its back.
4.
parts of a camel's humpclassical
What is on the humps, similar to 'asafir (birds).
5.
parts of a nostrilclassical
Bones that bend within the nostril or nasal cavity.

العَرَصُوفَانnoun

1.
parts of a plowclassical
Two wooden sticks inserted into the sides of a plow's frame (dujri) to separate them. The 'dujr' is the beam to which the plowshare's iron is attached.

عَرْصَفَةverb

1.
to pull apartclassical
To pull something, causing it to split lengthwise.

العُرْصُفnoun

1.
a plantboth
A plant, known by its Greek name 'asparagos', famous among physicians. Its leaves, when drunk with honey water for forty days, cure sciatica, and for seven days, cure jaundice.

Parallel reading

العَرصَاف: العقب المستطيل، وأكثر ما يقال ذلك لعقب الجنبين والمتنين

Al-'arsaf: The elongated hindquarters, and this is most often said of the hindquarters of the flanks and loins.

أو: هو خصلة من العقب والقد يشد بها أعلى قبة الهودج، كالعرفاص

Or: It is a tuft from the hindquarters and the rope with which the top of the howdah is secured, like al-'arsaf.

العراصيف: واحد العراصيف من الرحل وهي أربعة أوتاد يجمعن بين رؤوس أحناء القتب

Al-'araṣāfīf: The singular of al-'araṣāfīf from the saddle, which are four pegs that join between the tops of the curves of the saddle-frame.

في رأس كل حنو وتدان مشدودان بعقب أو بجلود الإبل، وفيه الظلفات

At the head of each curve are two pegs tied with hindquarter-leather or camel hides, and it contains the fetlocks.

أو هي: الخشبتان اللتان تشدان بين واسط الرحل وأخرته يمينا وشمالا

Or they are: the two wooden pieces that are tied between the middle and the rear of the saddle, to the right and to the left.

والعراصيف من سنام البعير: أطراف سناسن ظهره

And al-'araṣāfīf from the camel's hump: the extremities of the bony structures of its back.

العراصيف: ما على السناسن كالعصافير

Al-'araṣāfīf: What is on the humps, like 'asāfīr (birds).

العراصيف من الخرطوم: عظام تنثني في الخيشوم

Al-'araṣāfīf from the nostril: bones that bend within the nasal cavity.

والعرصوفان: عودان قد أدخلا في دجري الفدان ليفرقا

And al-'urṣūfān: two sticks that have been inserted into the sides of the plow's frame to separate them.

عرصفة: جذبه فشقه مستطيلا

'Arṣafah: pulling it and splitting it lengthwise.

والعُرْصُف كجعفر: نبت، يونانيته كما فيطوس

And al-'urṣuf like ja'far: a plant, its Greek name is asparagos.

إذا شرب من ورقه بماء العسل أربعين يوما أبرأ عرق النسا

If one drinks from its leaves with honey water for forty days, it cures sciatica.

وسبعة أيام أبرأ اليرقان

And for seven days, it cures jaundice.