خضر

خَضَّرَ

To make or render something green.

• Lane · entry 19378

خَضَّرَ

In a tropical idiom, to bless or prosper someone in an art, trade, traffic, or means of subsistence.

Used in expressions describing a person as blessed in a particular livelihood and therefore advised to remain with it.

• Lane · entry 19378

خَاضَرَ

To sell fruits before their goodness or soundness has become apparent.

The construction concerns a prohibited or disapproved sale of fruit before ripeness or reliable quality is manifest.

• Lane · entry 19379

أَخْضَرَ

Of moisture: to make seed-produce soft or tender.

The subject is the moisture affecting the produce.

• Lane · entry 19380

اِخْتَضَرَ

To cut green herbage, a tree, or green branches; also to cut a thing off entirely.

The source includes cutting herbage while still green and the idiomatic cutting off of a thing such as a nose.

• Lane · entry 19381

اُخْتُضِرَ

To die young, in one's fresh and flourishing state.

This is a figurative passive use derived from being cut while still fresh.

• Lane · entry 19381

اِخْتَضَرَ

To eat fruit while it is green or unripe.

• Lane · entry 19381

اِخْتَضَرَ

To deflower; in a specified use, to have sexual intercourse before the partner has reached puberty.

A figurative extension of taking something before its proper maturity.

• Lane · entry 19381

اِخْتَضَرَ

To take an untrained, refractory camel, attach its nose-rein, and drive it.

• Lane · entry 19381

اِخْتَضَرَ

To take up a load or burden.

• Lane · entry 19381

اِخْضَرَّ

To become dark, blackish, or dusky; to take on a green-black hue.

Used of colors, night, darkness, and other things whose intense or mixed hue is described through the traditional association between green and black.

• Lane · entry 19382

اِخْضَرَّ

To enter a state of plenty or prosperity.

A tropical expression describes the skin as becoming green from carrying the produce of one's land.

• Lane · entry 19382

اِخْضَرَّ

Of seed-produce: to become soft or tender.

• Lane · entry 19382

اِخْضَرَّ

Of herbage: to be cut.

This is a separately reported use of the Form IX expression, with a possible passive interpretation.

• Lane · entry 19382

خَضْرٌ / خَضْرَةٌ / خَضَارٌ

Fresh green herbage, tender trees or branches, and herbs in the first stage of growth.

The terms can denote herbage that is fresh-cut, soft, or still early in its growth.

• Lane · entry 19384
• Lane · entry 19389
• Lane · entry 19393

خِضْرٌ

Fresh, juicy, delicate, pleasant, or enjoyable in idiomatic expressions.

The idioms may describe an acquisition as obtained without payment or in a fresh state, worldly goods as delicate and pleasant, or warfare as fresh and loved because of its victory and spoil.

• Lane · entry 19386

خِضْرٌ

Unrevenged or unexpiated, of blood that has gone without retaliation or compensation.

Used in the expression for blood that has gone unavenged; the accompanying word is an imitative sequent.

• Lane · entry 19386

خَضَرٌ

A green palm branch, with or without its leaves.

• Lane · entry 19387

خُضْرَةٌ

Greenness, verdure, or the green color; also a dark, ashy, tawny, or blackish hue in traditional color terminology.

The color term may be applied to plants, animals, people, water, garments, and other things; its exact shade varies by object and context.

• Lane · entry 19390

خُضْرَةٌ

Softness, tenderness, freshness, juiciness, or pleasant edibility of produce.

This is an abstract and descriptive extension of the condition of fresh, tender vegetation or produce.

• Lane · entry 19390

خُضْرِيَّةٌ

A palm tree bearing good green dates; also a kind of admired green date resembling glass.

• Lane · entry 19392

خَضَارٌ

Milk mixed with a large quantity of water, becoming dark or ashy in color.

The term may refer to fresh or stored milk diluted approximately to one part milk and two parts water, according to one explanation.

• Lane · entry 19393

خُضَارَةٌ

The sea.

A tropical or proper-name use motivated by the sea's described green appearance; it is treated as a separate lexical use from ordinary greenness.

• Lane · entry 19397

خَضِيرَةٌ

A palm tree whose dates fall while still unripe and green.

• Lane · entry 19398

خُضَيْرَةٌ

A woman who scarcely ever completes a pregnancy and casts its product.

A tropical lexical use of the diminutive form.

• Lane · entry 19399

خُضَارِيٌّ / خُضَّارٌ

A particular green or dark-ashy bird, also called the akhyal or qāriya in the reported descriptions.

The sources differ over whether the bird was regarded as a good or evil omen.

• Lane · entry 19400
• Lane · entry 19401

خُضَارِيٌّ

The shrub or tree called رِمْث when it has grown tall.

• Lane · entry 19400

الخَضِر / خُضَّارَى

A particular green herb or plant, including a rough leguminous herb and another named plant.

The descriptions distinguish these plants from slender, succulent herbs and identify some as deep-rooted pasture plants.

• Lane · entry 19388
• Lane · entry 19402

أَخْضَرُ

In extended descriptive and idiomatic uses: tawny, brownish, blackish, or black; of pure Arab lineage when describing skin; and, in one expression, a young man whose facial hair has begun to grow.

These are conventional extensions of the color term and do not replace the ordinary Quranic sense 'green'.

• Lane · entry 19403

الخَضْرَاءُ

Green herbs, leguminous plants, or fresh fruits and herbs, used substantivally.

The form appears in expressions concerning produce and its treatment, including a reported statement about alms-tax on such produce.

• Lane · entry 19403

خَضْرَاءُ الدِّمَنِ

A beautiful woman of bad or corrupt origin.

A conventional figurative expression comparing attractive growth in polluted dung to beauty arising from a bad upbringing or lineage.

• Lane · entry 19403

الخَضْرَاءُ

The sky or heaven.

A tropical substantival use motivated by its apparent greenness.

• Lane · entry 19403

خَضْرَاءُ

A bucket that has become green or blackish from long use in drawing water.

• Lane · entry 19403

خَضْرَاءُ

The gathered body, mass, stock, or origin of a people; by extension, their worldly life, prosperity, plenty, or enjoyment.

Used in an idiom for the collective strength or prosperity of a group. One reported reading instead derives the expression from another root.

• Lane · entry 19403

الخُضْرُ / الخَضْرَاءُ

Domestic pigeons.

The name is explained by their predominant ash or greenish coloration even though individual birds may be variously colored.

• Lane · entry 19403

الأَخَاصِرُ

Gold, flesh-meat, and wine, used as a collective plural expression.

A tropical substantival use of the plural of أَخْضَرُ.

• Lane · entry 19403

أَخْضَرُ / خَضْرَاءُ

Fresh or recent; also soft or tender when applied to herbage or produce.

The abstract adjective can describe a recent affair or fresh affection, as well as tender vegetation.

• Lane · entry 19403

عِيشَةٌ خَضْرَاءُ

A soft, comfortable, plentiful, and pleasant mode of life.

A tropical expression for ease and abundance.

• Lane · entry 19403

الأَخْضَرُ

The name of a particular star or asterism associated with one of the rainy-season anwāʾ.

The astronomical identification is reported approximately and is distinct from the color adjective.

• Lane · entry 19403

الأُخَيْضِرُ

Cantharides, a green or dark-ashy medicinal fly.

A diminutive lexicalized name for the insect, whose medical properties are treated in pharmacological works.

• Lane · entry 19404

الأُخَيْضِرُ

A particular disease of the eye.

• Lane · entry 19404