Ahmad al-Shidyaq: Leg over Leg: Volumes Three and Four

or qirmāṣ ,

“shortness of the cheeks”

or qafaṣ ,

“acidity in the stomach from drinking water after eating dates, or burning in the throat”

or laḥaṣ ,

“abundant wrinkling on the upper side of the eyelid”

or lakhaṣ ,

“fleshiness of the upper eyelid”

3.1.15

or laṣaṣ ,

“closeness of the shoulders, or the teeth”

or māṣṣah ,

“a disease that affects young boys and consists of hairs on the edges of the vertebrae,” etc.

or maʿaṣ ,

“a twisting in the sinew of the leg”

or maghaṣ ,

“too well-known to require definition” [“stomachache”]

or waqaṣ ,

“shortness of the neck”

or ḥaraḍ ,

“morbidity of the stomach, body, judgment, and mind”

or haraḍ ,

“dry mange that breaks out on the body as the result of hot weather”

or khubāṭ ,

“a disease resembling insanity”

or adhwaṭiyyah ,

“one who is adhwaṭ has a small chin”

or asaṭṭiyyah ,

“one who is asaṭṭ has long legs”

3.1.16

or saraṭān ,

“a bilious swelling that starts the size of an almond or smaller; when it grows larger, red or green veins appear on it that resemble the legs of a crab; there is no hope of its being cured and it is treated only to stop it from getting worse”

or ḍaraṭ ,

“sparseness of the beard and thinness of the eyebrow”

or ḍawaṭ ,

“crookedness of the mouth”

or ṭaraṭ ,

“sparseness of the hair of the eyes, the eyebrows, and the eyelashes”

or qaṭaṭ ,

“shortness and tightness of the hair”

or maraṭ ,

“sparseness of the hair”

or maʿaṭ ,

“lack of hair”

or jaḥẓ ,

“protuberance or largeness of the eyeball”

or bathaʿ ,

“the appearance of blood on the lips, or the inversion of the lip on laughing”

or jalaʿ ,

“non-contiguity of the lips”

3.1.17

or khalaʿ ,

“twisting of the hamstring”

or rasaʿ ,

“morbidity of the eyelids”

or ramaʿ ,

“yellowing of a woman’s face as the result of a disease that affects her clitoris”

or zalaʿ ,

“cracking on the exterior of the foot, as also salaʿ ”

or zamaʿ ,

“superfluity of digits”

or ṣudāʿ ,

“pain in the head”

or ṣalaʿ ,

“recession of the hair of the front of the head”

or taṣawwuʿ ,

“patchiness of the hair”

or qaraʿ ,

“too well-known to require definition” [baldness caused by ringworm]

or qafaʿ ,

“bending of the toes back toward the foot”

3.1.18

or qulāʿ ,

“a disease of the mouth”

or qamaʿ ,

“morbidity of the inner corners of the eye, or an inflammation [of the same], or a pustule that breaks out at the roots of the eyelashes”

or kataʿ ,

“the turning of the fingers toward the palm”

or kathaʿ ,

“inflammation of the lip and its becoming so full of blood that it almost inverts”

or kalaʿ ,

“cracking and dirtiness of the feet”

or kawaʿ ,

“proximity of the wrists to the shoulders”

or lakhaʿ ,

“flaccidity of the body”

or laṭaʿ ,

“whiteness on the inside of the lip,” etc.

or wakaʿ ,

“proximity of the large toe to the second toe”

or hanaʿ ,

“stooping of the body”

3.1.19

or bathagh ,

“the appearance of blood on the body”

or dhalagh ,

“the inversion of the lip”

or fadagh ,

“twisting of the foot”

or fawagh ,

“largeness of the mouth”

or wabagh ,

“scurf of the head”

or janf ,

“depression and sucking in of one side of the breast, the other being straight”

or ḥashafah ,

“an ulcer that breaks out in a person’s throat”

or ḥanaf ,

“crookedness of the leg”

or khanaf ,

“the sucking in of one of the two sides of the chest or back”

or saʾaf ,

“cracking and frowsiness of the area around the nails”

3.1.20

or saʿfah ,

“ulcers that break out on a child’s head and face”

or shaʾfah ,

“an ulcer that breaks out on the bottom of the foot and that goes away if cauterized but which, if cut, causes its victim to die”

or shanaf ,

“inversion of the upper lip from above”

or ṭarfah ,

“a red blood spot that occurs in the eye as the result of a blow or some other cause”

or ghaḍaf ,

“flaccidity of the ear”

or ghaṭaf ,

“abundance of eyebrow hair”

or kutāf ,

“pain in the shoulder”

or kalaf ,

“something that covers the face and resembles sesame seeds… and a dull redness that covers the face”

or araqān ,

“a pest that affects crops and humans; synonym yaraqān ”

or bakhaq ,

“the ugliest form of one-eyedness”

3.1.21

or bahaq ,

“a fine whiteness on the surface of the skin,” etc.

or ḥawlaq ,

“a pain in a person’s throat”

or ḥamāq ,

“smallpox and similar diseases”

or khunāq ,

“a disease that is accompanied by an inability of the breath to reach the lungs”

or rawaq ,

“projection of the upper incisors over the lower”

or sulāq ,

“pustules that break out at the roots of the tongue, or flaking at the roots of the teeth and thickness of the eyelids”

or shadaq ,

“capaciousness of the jawbone”

or shamaq ,

“the mirth of insanity”

or ghamaqah ,

“a disease that affects the backbone”

or fataq ,

“a sickness of the peritoneum”

3.1.22

or fawaq ,

“a distortion of the mouth or the vagina”

or lasaq ,

“the sticking of the lung to the side as a result of thirst”

or mashaq ,

“injury done by one fleshy mass to another”

or wadaq ,

“red spots that break out in the eye and suffuse it with redness, or a piece of flesh that grows there, or a sickness in it that leads to the decay of the ear”

or sakak ,

“a defect of the ear”

or sāhik ,

“itchiness of the eye”

or shākkah ,

“a swelling of the throat”

or shawkah ,

“a disease too well-known to require definition [‘plague’], or a redness that covers the body”

or farak ,

“flaccidity of the base of the ear”

or fakak ,

“the unknitting of the shoulder blade as a result of flaccidity”

3.1.23

or alal ,

“shortness of the teeth and their turning inward toward the palate; synonym yalal ”

or badal ,

“a pain in the baʾdalah (the flesh between the armpit and the breast), or a pain of the joints and hands”