عضض

عَضَّ

To cling to, hold fast to, or adhere closely to a person, property, knowledge, a course, or a matter.

A figurative extension of gripping with the teeth; it may describe steadfast attachment or close management.

• Lane · entry 3546

عَضَّ

To bite one’s tongue, conventionally as an expression of restraint or forbearance.

The tongue-biting proverb is a conventional figurative use distinct from the Quranic hand-biting construction.

• Lane · entry 3546

عَضَّ

To defame, speak evil of, or backbite someone.

A figurative use, sometimes expressed as biting with the tongue.

• Lane · entry 3546

عَضَّ

To grip, pinch, press, or hurt as though by biting.

Applied figuratively to an instrument gripping a spear, a saddle hurting its bearer, or weapons wounding people.

• Lane · entry 3546

عَضَّ

To become severe, hard, distressing, or afflictive; also, in some descriptions, to become strong or hard.

Applied to affairs, war, time, fortune, and occasionally a person or thing described as becoming strong.

• Lane · entry 3546

عَضَّ

To make someone experienced or expert through travel or the management of affairs.

A figurative use in which difficult experience is said to bite or work upon a person.

• Lane · entry 3546

عَضَّضَ

To jest or play amorously with a young woman.

A specialized Form II usage.

• Lane · entry 3547

عَضَّضَ

To draw water from a difficult or deep well of the type called عَضُوضٌ.

A specialized Form II construction referring to arduous water-drawing.

• Lane · entry 3547

عَضَّضَ

To feed camels with the fodder called عُضّ.

A specialized Form II agricultural or pastoral use.

• Lane · entry 3547

عَاضَّ

To bite one another or bite each other.

A reciprocal Form III construction, especially of beasts or two parties.

• Lane · entry 3548

عَاضَّ

To grapple with or struggle against a difficult life.

A figurative reciprocal construction describing sustained hardship.

• Lane · entry 3548
• Lane · entry 3555

أَعْضَضَ

To make someone bite or seize something with the teeth.

A causative Form IV construction.

• Lane · entry 3549

أَعْضَضَ

To tell someone abusively to bite a specified obscene object.

A reported abusive imperative formula, preserved as a specialized idiomatic use.

• Lane · entry 3549

أَعْضَضَ

To make a sword wound someone or make an instrument cleave to and grip a body.

A figurative causative Form IV use applied to swords and cupping instruments.

• Lane · entry 3549

أَعْضَضَ

Of a well, to become difficult or arduous to draw from.

A Form IV construction connected with the quality عَضُوضٌ.

• Lane · entry 3549

أَعْضَضَ

For camels to feed on عُضّ or عِضّ; of land, to abound in such fodder or trees.

A specialized Form IV pastoral and environmental use.

• Lane · entry 3549

عُضٌّ

Fodder or feed for livestock, including crushed date-stones, grain, dough, trefoil, and dry herbage.

The exact fodder material varies by authority and regional usage.

• Lane · entry 3551

عُضٌّ

Coarse trees, shrubs, thick firewood, or other rough woody vegetation.

A botanical or fuel sense, distinct from the fodder sense.

• Lane · entry 3551

عِضٌّ

A lock that scarcely opens or will not open.

A figurative nominal use based on tenacious closure.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

A person who keeps close to, manages, and rigorously attends to property.

Applied to a person characterized by close control of possessions or livelihood.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

Niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious.

A figurative characterization associated with holding tightly to property.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

Evil in disposition; bad, wicked, or malignant.

An adjectival character description.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

A strong or forceful man.

An intensive personal description.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

A person having sufficient strength or power for travel or fighting, and thereby experienced in it.

Used in compounds such as “strong for travel” or “strong for fighting.”

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

An equal, match, opponent, or adversary.

A relational noun applied to one person in relation to another.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

Cunning, intelligent, skilful, knowledgeable, eloquent, or contentious.

The range includes a person able to understand obscure matters or outwit others.

• Lane · entry 3552

عِضٌّ

Small thorny trees or shrubs, including kinds of acacia and related growth.

A botanical term whose exact species list varies among authorities.

• Lane · entry 3552

عَضَّةٌ

A bite.

The ordinary deverbal noun for one biting act or bite-mark.

• Lane · entry 3553

عَضَاضٌ

Something available to be bitten and eaten; edible food.

Used in expressions for having or tasting nothing to eat.

• Lane · entry 3554

عَضَاضٌ

Trees or plants that have become thick, coarse, dry, tough, or hard.

A botanical description of mature or hardened growth.

• Lane · entry 3554

عِضَاضٌ

The act or fault of an animal, especially a beast or horse, that bites people.

A recognized defect in an animal offered for sale.

• Lane · entry 3555

عِضَاضٌ

Endurance of distress or affliction with patience.

Used in the expression عِضَاضُ عَيْشٍ for enduring a harsh life.

• Lane · entry 3555

عَضُوضٌ

A horse or camel that bites, especially one habitually or repeatedly biting.

An intensive animal adjective.

• Lane · entry 3556

عَضُوضٌ

A bow whose string clings or sticks to its handle.

A specialized description of a bow’s fit or action.

• Lane · entry 3556

عَضُوضٌ

A woman whose vaginal opening is so narrow that penetration is difficult or impossible.

A rare anatomical usage reported in the lexical tradition.

• Lane · entry 3556

عَضُوضٌ

A deep, narrow, or otherwise difficult well or water source from which drawing water is arduous.

The term can also describe the distress caused to the water-drawer; some reports associate it with abundant water.

• Lane · entry 3556
• Lane · entry 3557

عَضُوضٌ

Severe, grievous, distressing, or afflictive.

Applied especially to time, fortune, or war.

• Lane · entry 3556

عَضُوضٌ

Unjust or tyrannical rule or dominion.

An intensive figurative epithet for rule that oppresses its subjects.

• Lane · entry 3556

عَضُوضٌ

A calamity or misfortune.

A figurative nominal use derived from the notion of something biting or afflicting.

• Lane · entry 3556

عَضِيضٌ

An associate, companion, or equal in age.

A relational description of one person in relation to another.

• Lane · entry 3557

عَاضٌّ

A camel that feeds on trees of the type called عِضّ.

A specialized active-participial animal description.

• Lane · entry 3560

تَعْضُوضٌ

A kind of sweet, very sweet black date from Hejer.

A regional fruit name; the feminine form names an individual date or its tree.

• Lane · entry 3561

مَعَضٌّ

A place or thing in which or on which one can lay hold; a foothold or means of settlement.

Used literally of a place and figuratively of something that provides a grasp or support in an affair.

• Lane · entry 3563

مُعِضٌّ

A person whose camels feed on عِضّ or related trees.

A specialized active-participial pastoral description.

• Lane · entry 3564

مُعِضَّةٌ

Land abounding in the trees or vegetation called عِضّ.

A specialized environmental adjective.

• Lane · entry 3564

مُعَضَّضٌ

An ass bitten repeatedly and lacerated by other asses.

A passive participial description of an animal subjected to repeated biting.

• Lane · entry 3565

مَعْضُوضٌ

Bitten.

The passive participle of the basic Form I verb.

• Lane · entry 3566

عُضَّاضٌ

The tip or projecting end of the nose.

A rare and explicitly exceptional lexical attribution; its relationship to the main root sense is uncertain.

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