ش ث ل

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root describes a state of being thick, coarse, and rough, primarily applied to fingers, hands, or feet. It can also refer to a thick, fleshy, and overlapping foot.

Derived headwords

شَثَلَverb

1.
to be thick and coarseboth
The fingers became thick and coarse.

شَثْلُ الْأَصَابِعِadjective

1.
thick-fingeredboth
Describing someone with thick and coarse fingers.

شَثْلَةnoun

1.
thick, fleshy, overlapping footclassical
A foot that is thick-fleshed and has overlapping parts.

شَثِنَverb

1.
to be thick and coarseboth
The fingers became thick and coarse, similar to the meaning of شثل.

شَثْنَةadjective

1.
thick and coarseboth
Describing something as thick and coarse, often used for fingers or hands.

Parallel reading

شثلت أصابعه، بالثاء المثلثة، ككرم، وفرح، كلاهما عن الفراء: أي غلظت، وخشنت

His fingers became thick and coarse, with the thaa' muthallathah, like karuma and fariha, both from Al-Farra': meaning they became thick and rough.

فهو شثل الأصابع: غليظها، وخشنها، وشثنها، بالنون

So he is thick-fingered: meaning his fingers are thick, coarse, and rough (shathnaha, with the noon).

وزعم يعقوب وأبو عبيد: أن لامها بدل من نون شثن

And Ya'qub and Abu Ubayd claimed: that its lam is a substitute for the noon of shathana.

وقال ابن السكيت: الشثل لغة في الشثن

And Ibn Al-Sikkit said: Al-shathal is a dialectal variant of Al-shathn.

وقد شثل شثولة، وشثن، شثونة

And he experienced shathalah (verb form), and shathana, shathunah (masdar).

قدم شثلة: غليظة اللحم، متراكبة

A shathlah foot: thick-fleshed, overlapping.

وقد شثلت رجله

And his leg became thick and coarse.