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عكي

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of fullness, thickness, and being tightly bound or gathered. It extends to meanings of death and the process of spinning thread.

Derived headwords

عكوانيadjective
  1. 1.
    full of flesh and fatboth

    Describing a camel that is full of flesh and fat, indicating a state of corpulence and well-being.

عكوانnoun
  1. 1.
    abundance of fatclassical

    A large amount or accumulation of fat, used to describe something as being very fatty.

عكواnoun
  1. 1.
    gathering hairclassical

    The act of a woman gathering or not letting down her hair.

العكوةnoun
  1. 1.
    spindleboth

    The tool used for spinning thread, onto which the spun fiber is wound.

عكواء الذنبadjective
  1. 1.
    thickly knotted tailclassical

    Describing a female camel whose tail has a thick or coarse knot.

عكىverb
  1. 1.
    to tie upclassical

    To tie or wrap something, such as with a garment like an izar.

يعكيverb
  1. 1.
    tying upclassical

    The present tense form of the verb 'to tie up', referring to the action in progress.

عكياnoun
  1. 1.
    tying upclassical

    The masdar (verbal noun) for the act of tying or wrapping.

عكىverb
  1. 1.
    to dieclassical

    To pass away or cease to live.

عكىverb
  1. 1.
    to dieclassical

    The intensified form of the verb indicating death.

أعكىverb
  1. 1.
    to dieclassical

    Another form of the verb indicating death.

العاكيnoun
  1. 1.
    the deadclassical

    One who has died; a deceased person.

العكاnoun
  1. 1.
    thread from spindleclassical

    The thread that emerges from the spindle before it is wound into a ball.

عكوةnoun
  1. 1.
    thread from spindleclassical

    A single strand of thread as it comes off the spindle.

Parallel reading

وبعير} عكواني: ممتلىء اللحم والشحم.
And a camel 'akwani: full of flesh and fat.
هو {عكوان من الشحم، كعثمان.
It is 'akwan of fat, like 'Uthman.
وعكت المرأة شعرها {عكوا: إذا لم ترسله؛ نقله الجوهري.
And the woman gathered her hair 'akwan: if she did not let it down; transmitted by Al-Jawhari.
والعكوة، بالضم: المغزل؛ هنا محل ذكره.
And al-'akwah, with dammah: the spindle; its place of mention is here.
وناقة {عكواء الذنب: أي غليظة العقد.
And a she-camel 'akwā' al-dhanab: meaning thick-knotted tail.
عكى بإزاره {يعكي} عكيا
He tied up with his izar, tying up, a tying up.
عكى زيد: مات، {كعكى) ، بالتشديد، (} وأعكى) ، الثلاثة عن أبي عمر و.
Zayd died, 'akkā, with shaddah, and a'kā, all three from Abu 'Amr.
والعاكي: الميت
And al-'ākī: the dead.
الغزال الذي يبيع} العكا، بالضم، (جمع عكوة)، وهو الغزل الذي يخرج من المغزل قبل أن يكبب
The gazelle that sells al-'akkā, with dammah, (plural of 'akwah), which is the thread that comes out of the spindle before it is wound.