Ahmad al-Shidyaq - Leg over Leg - Volumes One and Two

or a ʿaḍād ,

“a woman thick of upper arm ( ʿaḍud )”

or a ʿumuddah ,

“a young woman bursting with youthfulness; synonym ʿumudāniyyah ”

or a ghādah ,

“a smooth, pliant woman of patent pliability”

or a ghaydāʾ ,

“a woman who walks with an affected swaying, out of pliability”

or a maqṣadah ,

“the large, perfect woman who pleases all men and tends to shortness”

or a maʾdah ,

“a smooth girl”

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or a mamsūdah ,

a female who is trimly built

or a umlūd ,

“a soft, pliable woman”

or a nāhid ,

a female who is “full-breasted”

or a bahīrah ,

“a noble lady, of small stature and weak”; synonym bahīlah

or a bashīrah ,

a female who is “beautiful”

or a mabshūrah ,

a female who is “comely of face and body”

or a tārrah ,

a female who is “full-bodied”

or a turrah ,

a female “comely and frivolous”

or a juḥāshirah ,

“a huge woman, of beautiful physique and large joints, and well built”

or a jahrāʾ ,

feminine of ajhar , which means “a male of comely, perfectly formed appearance and body, or a male with an attractive squint”

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or a ḥādirah ,

“a fat, or comely and beautiful, woman”

or an aḥwariyyah ,

a female who is “white and smooth”

or a ḥawāriyyah ,

“the ḥawāriyyāt [plural] are the women of the great cities”

or a ḥawrāʾ ,

[“having ḥawar ”] “ ḥawar is when the white of the eye is extremely white and the black extremely black and the pupil is rounded, the eyelids delicate and surrounded by white,” etc.

or a dhāt tadahkur ,

a female “whose body shakes”

or a mudahmarah ,

a compact, well-knit woman

or a muzannarah ,

a female who is “tall, large-bodied”

or a zahrāʾ ,

“a woman of radiant face”

or a masbūrah ,

a female “of comely form”

or a masmūrah ,

“a girl with a sinewy body and no loose flesh”

or a shaghfar ,

“a comely woman”

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or a ṣayyirah ,

a female “of comely appearance”

or a ʿabqarah ,

a female who is “full-bodied and beautiful”

or a ʿabharah ,

a female “with delicate, shining white skin or who is fat and full-bodied, synonym ʿabhar ; also a female who brings together all beautiful qualities of body and physique”

or a ʿajanjarah ,

a female “of compact physique and a light spirit”

or a muʿṣir ,

“a girl who has completed her girlhood and attained or entered into the menses, or who is approaching twenty”

or gharrāʾ ,

“white”; synonym farrāʾ

or a dhāt iftirār ,

[a woman “with a pleasant laugh”] “ iftarra means ‘he laughed a pleasant laugh’”

or a fazrāʾ ,

a female who is “fleshy and fat-laden, or approaching the onset of the menses”

or a qufākhiriyyah ,

“a large, noble woman”

or a murmūrah ,

“a murmūrah , synonym mirmārah , is a girl whose skin is smooth and whose flesh quivers”

or a mashrat al-aʿḍāʾ ,

“a fragrant woman”

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or a maṭirah ,

a female who “constantly uses the teeth-cleaning stick, or cleans herself, or washes”

or a dhāt makrah ,

[a woman “possessed of a makrah ”] “a makrah is a comely, thick calf”

or a mamkūrah ,

“a woman with a curvaceous physique and rounded calves, or one who is of slender waist and corpulent”

or a māriyyah ,

a female who is “of a brilliant white”; from [the verb] māra

or a dhāt naḍrah ,

[a woman “possessed of naḍrah ”] “i.e., of comeliness and good looks”

or a wathīrah ,

“the woman who is wathīrah has much flesh, or is ready to be bedded”

(Note: women who are dirty crockadillapigs, shorties, runts, trolls, long-necked pinheads, midgets, wide-wooed woofers, waddlers, bitty-butted beasts, scrawnies, and spindle-legs are more coquettish and sensual than any of the above.)

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or a hudakir ,

“a woman who brings her flesh and her bones into play when she walks”

or a haydakūr ,

a female “with a lot of flesh on her” and “a huge young woman who is attractively coquettish”; synonym hadkūr

or a biliz ,

“a huge, or a light, woman”

or a ʿukmūzah ,

a female who is “thick and full-fleshed”

or a ghammāzah ,

“a girl skilled at massage”

or a kināz ,

a female “with much flesh, and solid”

or a ānisah ,

“a cheerful girl”

or a bayhas ,

a female who “walks well”

or a kharūs ,

“a girl who has not yet brought forth, in the first period of her pregnancy”

or a khansāʾ ,

[“snub-nosed”] already mentioned under burquʿ

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or a murkis ,

“a girl whose breasts are emerging; when they become compact and large, they are said to have ‘become full’ ( nahada )”

or a ʿayṭamūs ,

“a beautiful woman, or a comely, tall, full-bodied woman”; synonym ʿuṭmūs

or a ʿalṭamīs ,

“a full-bodied girl of attractive physique”

or a ʿānis ,

“a female who has remained so long with her family after having reached puberty that she is no longer counted among the virgins”

or a qudmūsah ,

a female who is “huge and big”

or a qirṭās ,

“a white girl of lanky physique”

or a kanīsah ,

“a comely woman”

or a laʿsāʾ ,

“one who has the slightest hint of blackness to her complexion”

or a lamīs ,

a female “soft to the touch”

or a ʿashshah ,

“a tall woman with little flesh, or one with fine-boned hands and feet”

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or a kharbaṣah ,

“a young, full-bodied woman”

or a dakhūṣ ,

“a girl full of fat”

or a rakhṣah ,

[“soft”] “too well known to require definition”

or a baḍbāḍah

a female who is “soft-bodied,

delicate-skinned,

baḍḍah

full-fleshed”

or a kharīḍah ,

“a full-fleshed, white, comely, youthful girl”

or a raḍrāḍah ,

synonym of rajrājah

or a ghaḍḍah ghaḍīḍat al-ṭaraf ,

[“a blooming girl with a drowsy eye”] “ ghaḍḍah is ‘blooming’ ( nāḍirah ); an eye that is ghaḍīḍ is ‘drowsy’( fātir )”

or a fāriḍ ,

a female who is “huge”

or a faḍfāḍah ,

“a tall, well-built, fleshy girl”

or a mufāḍah ,

a female who is “huge-bellied”

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