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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