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Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily denotes concepts related to thinness, slenderness, and smallness, particularly in the head and neck. It extends to describe certain types of palm trees and animals, often implying a lack of robustness or a specific physical characteristic.

Derived headwords

الصعلةnoun
  1. 1.
    Type of palm treeclassical

    A type of palm tree characterized by crookedness and bare bases of its fronds. It can also refer to a tall, and therefore potentially crooked, palm tree.

  2. 2.
    Thinness of head/neckboth

    Refers to a person, ostrich, or palm tree that is slender in the head and neck.

  3. 3.
    Smallness of headclassical

    Specifically denotes the smallness of the head.

  4. 4.
    Thinness and leannessclassical

    Refers to thinness, leanness, and lightness in the body.

صَعْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Ostrichclassical

    Refers to an ostrich.

صَعْلadjective
  1. 1.
    Small-headedclassical

    Describes a male as having a small head.

  2. 2.
    Tallclassical

    Describes something as tall, particularly used for a ship's mast.

  3. 3.
    Lacking hairclassical

    Refers to a donkey that has lost its hair or is bald.

صَعْلَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    Slender-headed/neckedclassical

    A feminine form describing someone or something with a slender head and neck.

أَصْعَلadjective
  1. 1.
    Small-headedclassical

    Describes a male with a small head.

  2. 2.
    Slender-headed/neckedclassical

    Describes a male with a slender head and neck.

صَعُلَverb
  1. 1.
    To be small-headedclassical

    The verb form indicating the state of having a small head.

صَعْلاًnoun
  1. 1.
    Smallness of headclassical

    The state or condition of having a small head.

اصْصَعَلَverb
  1. 1.
    To have a thin headclassical

    The verb form indicating the process of a palm tree developing a thin head.

اصْصِعْلالاًnoun
  1. 1.
    Thinness of headclassical

    The masdar (verbal noun) for the process of a palm tree having a thin head.

صَعْلnoun
  1. 1.
    Thinnessclassical

    Refers to thinness, particularly of the head.

صَعِيلname
  1. 1.
    Nameclassical

    A proper name.

صَعْلnoun
  1. 1.
    Male ostrichclassical

    Refers to a male ostrich.

Parallel reading

الصعلة: نخلة فها عوج، وأصول سعفها جرداء
The sa'lah: a palm tree that has crookedness, and the bases of its fronds are bare.
ما لم تكن صعلة صعبا مراقيها
Unless it was a sa'lah whose climbing was difficult.
الصعلة من النخل: الطويلة
The sa'lah of palm trees: the tall one.
الصعلة: الدقيقة الرأس والعنق
The sa'lah: slender of head and neck.
رجل صعل، وامرأة صعلة
A man is sa'l, and a woman is sa'lah.
الرجل على هذا أصعل، وقال شمر: الصعل من الرجال: الصغير الرأس، الطويل العنق، الدقيقهما
The man, according to this, is as'al, and Shamir said: The sa'l among men is small of head, long of neck, slender in both.
استكثروا من الطواف بهذا البيت، قبل أن يحول بينكم وبينه من الحبشة رجل أصعل أصمع
Increase your circumambulation of this House, before an as'al, asma' man from Abyssinia is placed between you and it.
فهو الصغير الرأس
He is the small-headed one.
كأني به صعل يهدم الكعبة
As if I see him, a sa'l, demolishing the Ka'bah.
اصْصَعَلَتِ النخلة: إذا دق رأسها
The palm tree 'assala': if its head became thin.
ودقل أجرد شوذبي صعل من الساج
And a bare, slender, tall mast of teak wood.
الصعل من الحمر: الذاهب الوبر، والعفاء
The sa'l among donkeys: the one lacking hair, and bald.
الصعلة: صغر الرأس
The sa'lah: smallness of the head.
لم تزر به صعلة
No sa'lah has visited him.
هي الدقة والنحول، والخفة في البدن
It is thinness, leanness, and lightness in the body.
الصعل: الظليم، لأنه صغير الرأس
The sa'l: the male ostrich, because it is small-headed.
الصعلة: النعامة
The sa'lah: the ostrich.
بها كل خوار إلى كل صعلة ضهول
In it is every lowing sound towards every ostrich, flowing milk.
حمار صعل: ذاهب
A sa'l donkey: gone (bald).
الصعل، محركة: الدقة
The sa'l, with harakah: thinness.