غضا

Arabic

Etymology 1

Extended from the root غ ض ض (ḡ-ḍ-ḍ).

غَضًا أسْوَد (Haloxylon ammodendron)

Alternative forms

  • غَضًى (ḡaḍan) without prejudice to the frequency or precedence of either form

Noun

غَضًا • (ḡaḍan) m (collective, singulative غَضَاة f (ḡaḍāh), construct state غَضَا (ḡaḍā))

  1. saxaul (Haloxylon gen. et spp.)
    Synonym: (or they may distinguish species by two names) رِمْث (rimṯ)
Declension
Derived terms
  • غَضْيَاء (ḡaḍyāʔ, a land abundant in غَضًا (ḡaḍan) plants)
  • غَضَوِيّ (ḡaḍawiyy, liking to eat saxaul)
  • غَضِيَ (ḡaḍiya, to have ache in the venter for having eaten saxaul)
  • غَضِيّ (ḡaḍiyy) and غَضٍ (ḡaḍin, having ache in the venter for having eaten saxaul)
  • غَضَا (ḡaḍā, to be dark and cover everything)
  • أَغْضَى (ʔaḡḍā, to close one’s eyelids literally or figuratively as to be intentionally heedless or without regard to something)
  • تَغَاضَى (taḡāḍā, to contract one’s eyelids; to feign oneself unmindful)
  • مُغِضّ (muḡiḍḍ) and غَاضٍ (ḡāḍin, sombre, obscure, dark)

Etymology 2

From figurative uses in relation to the غَضًا (ḡaḍan) plant, in high demand by camels to bite off and by travels for shadow.

Verb

غَضَا • (ḡaḍā) I, non-past يَغْضُو‎ (yaḡḍū)

  1. to be dark and cover everything
Conjugation

Verb

غَضَا • (ḡaḍā) I, non-past يَغْضُو‎ (yaḡḍū)

  1. to be in good condition and abundant
Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “غضا”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 281b–282a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “غضا”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 477b–478a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “غضا”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2268c–2269c
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “غضا”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, pages 756a–b
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “غضا”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 792
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