خشب

خَشَبَ

To mix one thing with another.

The mixed object is construed with باء.

• Lane · entry 19139

خَشَبَ

To pick out, choose, or select something.

This is recorded as a contrasting branch of the verb’s meaning.

• Lane · entry 19139

خَشَبَ

To polish or sharpen a sword.

The operation involves rubbing the sword with a broad, smooth implement; the basic reference is to sword finishing.

• Lane · entry 19139

خَشَبَ

To forge or roughly fashion a sword, arrow, or bow.

The object may be shaped by the initial filing or forging operation without being fully smoothed, perfected, or evenly finished.

• Lane · entry 19139

خَشَبَ

To speak, compose, or perform without refinement or careful preparation.

Used figuratively of poetry, words, or work produced as it comes, without studied elegance or thoroughness.

• Lane · entry 19139

تَخَشَّبَ

To eat thick branches or dry herbage.

Used of camels taking and eating branches of trees or other dry vegetation.

• Lane · entry 19140

اِخْتَشَبَ

To take or adopt a sword without selecting the best one.

The construction describes taking a sword from one place or another indiscriminately.

• Lane · entry 19141

اِخْشَوْشَبَ

To become tall, gross, rough, coarse, and hard-bodied.

Applied to a person, camel, or ostrich, with emphasis on a coarse or hardy physical condition and, for a person or camel, prominent bones or lack of flesh.

• Lane · entry 19142

اِخْشَوْشَبَ

To become rough or austere in one’s way of life and outward conduct.

The recorded figurative application extends to religion, clothing, food, and conduct generally.

• Lane · entry 19142

اِخْشَوْشَبَ

To undertake or endure a hard life in order to become more able to bear hardship.

The usage includes subjecting oneself to arduous work or barefoot walking to toughen the body, and patiently enduring difficult living conditions.

• Lane · entry 19142

خِشْبٌ

Worthless or lacking any good.

Used in the expression رَجُلٌ قِشْبٌ خِشْبٌ, describing a man in whom or with whom there is no good; the form is also described as an imitative sequent to قِشْبٌ.

• Lane · entry 19143

خَشَبٌ

Lean or emaciated cattle.

A figurative application attributed to cattle made lean by feeding on dry herbage.

• Lane · entry 19144

خَشِبٌ

Rough, coarse, gross, hard, or tough-bodied.

Applied to people and animals, including a large or coarse camel, a thick-boned horse, or a body with prominent bones and sinews; the description can also mean dry, rigid, or vigorous.

• Lane · entry 19145

خَشِبٌ

A life lacking delicacy, nicety, or scrupulousness.

This is a figurative description of austere or rough living.

• Lane · entry 19145

خَشْبَةٌ

The first filing of a sword before polishing.

A technical term for the sword’s initial finishing stage.

• Lane · entry 19146

خُشَابٌ

A beverage properly called نَبِيذٌ.

The entry identifies this word as deriving from Persian خُوشْ آبْ; it is a homonymous borrowed lexical item.

• Lane · entry 19149

خَشِيبٌ

Mixed.

The supplied lexical statement is terse and does not specify the construction or things mixed.

• Lane · entry 19150

خَشِيبٌ

Picked out, chosen, or selected.

This meaning is recorded as one of two contrasting applications of the adjective.

• Lane · entry 19150

خَشِيبٌ

A polished or sharpened sword.

The form is especially reported for a sword that has been polished or sharpened.

• Lane · entry 19150

خَشِيبٌ

A newly made, roughly forged, or unfinished sword, arrow, or bow.

The object has undergone initial forging or filing but has not yet been polished, smoothed, or fully perfected.

• Lane · entry 19150

خَشِيبٌ

Unpolished, unstudied speech or poetry.

Used figuratively of words uttered as they come, without refinement or labor.

• Lane · entry 19150

خَشِيبٌ

Bad, corrupt, or vile.

A general evaluative application of the adjective.

• Lane · entry 19150

خَشِيبَةٌ

The raw or unfinished quality of a sword’s metal.

The term may also be applied, according to the reported lexical alternatives, to the sword’s blade, iron, edge, or polish.

• Lane · entry 19151

خَشَّابَةٌ

A collective term for sellers of wood or timber.

The entry treats the word as a collective designation.

• Lane · entry 19154

خَشَّابَةٌ

Fighters armed with staves.

A specialized plural or collective application.

• Lane · entry 19154

خَشَّابَةٌ

A slender implement passed over a sword after polishing.

The tool is used so that the scabbard does not alter its condition after the sword has been polished.

• Lane · entry 19154

أَخْشَبُ

A great rugged mountain or a rugged, stony tract of elevated ground.

The word is also used of rugged mountains, rocky terrain, and ground of a rough, stony character.

• Lane · entry 19156

خَشْبَاءُ

Hard, stony ground containing stones, pebbles, and earth or clay.

The ground is described as shedding or carrying off even a small amount of rain.

• Lane · entry 19156

خَشْبَاءُ

A hill whose stones are scattered but lie near one another.

Used in the construction أَكَمَةٌ خَشْبَاءُ.

• Lane · entry 19156

خَشْبَاءُ

Displeasing, rigid, or uneven.

Used of a forehead in جَبْهَةٌ خَشْبَاءُ and of a person described as أَخْشَبُ الجَبْهَةِ.

• Lane · entry 19156

مُخَشَّبٌ

Built or furnished with wood or timber.

Used of a house having wood employed in its construction.

• Lane · entry 19157

مَخْشُوبٌ

A horse of mixed pedigree.

A specialized application attributed to a particular poetic usage.

• Lane · entry 19158

مَخْشُوبٌ

An unbroken or poorly trained horse.

This application is reported as restricted to a particular poet’s usage.

• Lane · entry 19158

مَخْشُوبٌ

Imperfectly made of wood.

Used of a wooden bowl that has been made roughly or inadequately.

• Lane · entry 19158

مَخْشُوبٌ

Imperfectly prepared food.

Meat may be undercooked; grain or other food may lack seasoning or condiment.

• Lane · entry 19158

مُخْتَشِبٌ

One who eats whatever he can obtain.

A description of a person’s opportunistic eating.

• Lane · entry 19159