ق ض ب

Arabic

Root

ق ض ب • (q-ḍ-b)

1. related to trimming, pruning

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: قَضَبَ (qaḍaba, “to trim, to prune”)
  • Verbal noun: قَضْب (qaḍb)
  • Active participle: قَاضِب (qāḍib)
  • Passive participle: مَقْضُوب (maqḍūb)
• Form II: قَضَّبَ (qaḍḍaba, “to trim, to prune”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقْضِيب (taqḍīb)
  • Active participle: مُقَضِّب (muqaḍḍib)
  • Passive participle: مُقَضَّب (muqaḍḍab)
• Form IV: أَقْضَبَ (ʔaqḍaba)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْضَاب (ʔiqḍāb)
  • Active participle: مُقْضِب (muqḍib)
  • Passive participle: مُقْضَب (muqḍab)
• Form V: تَقَضَّبَ (taqaḍḍaba, “to be trimmed”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقَضُّب (taqaḍḍub)
  • Active participle: مُتَقَضِّب (mutaqaḍḍib)
  • Passive participle: مُتَقَضَّب (mutaqaḍḍab)
• Form VII: اِنْقَضَبَ (inqaḍaba, “to be trimmed”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْقِضَاب (inqiḍāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْقَضِب (munqaḍib)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَضَبَ (iqtaḍaba, “to abridge”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِضَاب (iqtiḍāb)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَضِب (muqtaḍib)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَضَب (muqtaḍab)

Nouns

• قَضْب m (qaḍb, “cut branches; edible herbs”)
• قُضَابَة f (quḍāba, “cut branches”)
• مِقْضَب m (miqḍab, “secateurs”)
• قَضِيب m (qaḍīb, “rod, twig; male member; bar, grill”); pl. قُضْبان (quḍbān)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ض ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 459
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ق ض ب”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 759–760
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ض ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1034