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

or a khūṭānah ,

“a girl who is khūṭānah , or khūṭāniyyah , is smooth and tall as a tree branch”

or a sabṭat al-jism ,

a female “of pleasing figure”

or a shaṭṭah ,

a female “of pleasing physique and tall”

or a shināṭ ,

“a woman of pleasing color and physique”

or a dhāt ʿanaṭ wa-ʿayaṭ , 554

a female “having a long and attractive neck”

or a dhāt shināṭ ,

a female “fully and copiously fleshed”

or a mulaʿʿaẓah ,

“a well-built, tall, fat girl”

or a batʿāʾ ,

a female “having strong joints and sinews to her body”

or a barīʿah ,

a female “outstanding in beauty and brains”

or a bazīʿah ,

a female who is “quick-witted, witty, and charming”

2.14.23

or a mutliʿ ,

a female who is “attractive because she stretches out her neck ( tutliʿu ʿunuqahā ) when addressing those who look upon her”

or a sanīʿah ,

a female who “has beautiful, soft joints and fine bones”

or a shabʿā l-khulkhāl wa-l-siwār ,

a female who is “huge and fills her anklets and bracelets with fat”

or a shamūʿ ,

a female who is “merry and playful”

or a ṣamʿāʾ ,

“a female with small ears, or a small, fine ear that is flattened against the head”

or a ḍarʿāʾ ,

a female who is “large-uddered”

or a farʿāʾ ,

a female “with perfect hair”

or a laʿʿah ,

a female who is “chaste and cute”

or a lāʿah ,

a female who “flirts with you but doesn’t let you”(because, I believe, she torments ( talūʿu ) her suitor by so doing)

or a anūf ,

“a female with a sweet-smelling nose”

2.14.24

or a khanḍarif ,

“a huge, fleshy woman with large breasts”

or a dhalfāʾ ,

[“smallness and straightness of the nose”] dhalaf has been mentioned above under burquʿ

or a dhāt sajaf ,

[possessed of] “ sajaf , which is narrowness of the waist and lankness of the belly”

or a surʿūf ,

“a smooth, tall woman”

or a sayfānah ,

a female who is “thin, svelte, and tall”

or a ẓarīfah ,

“ ẓarf [the quality of being ẓarīfah (‘charming, witty, sophisticated’)] may be used only of the tongue, or of comeliness of face and appearance, or of both tongue and face, or of graciousness and quickness of both sensibility and wits, or it may be that only lively young men and women may be described as having it, not old men or lords”

or a qirṣāfah ,

“a qirṣāfah is a woman who rolls like a ball”

or a qiṣāf ,

“a huge woman”

or a laffāʾ ,

singular of luff meaning “tall, fat girls”

or a ḥasanat al-maʿārif wa-l-mawqifayn ,

[“a female comely of those parts that may be seen”] the maʿārif are “the face and those parts of a woman that show” and the mawqifān are “the face and the feet, or the eyes and the hands and whatever has to be shown”

or a muhafhafah ,

a female “lank-bellied and small-waisted”

2.14.25

or a hayfāʾ ,

[“slender-waisted”] hayaf [the quality of being hayfāʾ ] is “lankness of the belly and delicacy of the haunches”

or a barrāqah ,

“a beautiful female possessed of brio and brilliance”; synonym abārīq 555

or a buhluq ,

“a very ruddy woman”

or a ḥārūq ,

“having a certain quality welcomed in a woman during copulation” 556

or a khirbāq ,

a female who is “tall and large, or a fast walker”

or a rashīqah ,

a female who is “comely and refined of figure”

or a raqrāqah ,

a female who “looks as though water were running over her face”

or a rūqah ,

a female who is “comely and admired”

or a sawqāʾ ,

a female “with long, or comely, legs”

or a ʿabiqah ,

“a woman who continues to give off a pleasant smell for days though she applies to herself the smallest amount of perfume”

2.14.26

or a ʿātiq ,

“a girl who has just reached the start of puberty”

or a ʿashannaqah ,

a female who is “tall without being huge or ponderous”

or a ghubruqat al-ʿaynayn ,

a female “having wide eyes with intensely black pupils”

or a ghurāniq ,

“a woman who is ghurāniq , or ghurāniqah , is young and full-bodied”

or a dhāt gharnaqah ,

[a female “possessed of gharnaqah ,” which means] “flirtatiousness of the eyes”

or a dhāt limmah ghurāniqah ,

[a female “possessed of a lock of hair that is”] “smooth and played with by the wind”

or a funuq ,

“a girl who is funuq or mifnāq is pampered”

or a labiqah ,

a female “pleasing in her coquetry and way of dressing”

or a mulṣaqah ,

a female who is “small and well-knit”

or a lahiqah ,

a female who is “extremely white”

(Note: women who have dilated dugs or deflated bellies, who are blubber-lipped, gross, flighty and gangly, fleshy, hippo-haunched, ill-starred and vile, gross-bodied, and flabby-fleshed, with pendulous pendentives, are more coquettish and sensual than any of the above.)

2.14.27

or a mamshūqah ,

a female who is “lightly fleshed”

or a rawdakah ,

a female who is “comely, in the bloom of youth”

or a ḍibrik ,

“a woman with huge thighs”

or a ḍakḍākah ,

a female who is “short and plump”

or a ḍunʾakah ,

a female who is “solid and sparely fleshed”

or a muʿrawrikah ,

a female who is “well-knit”

or a ʿakawwakah ,

a female who is “short and compact, or fat”

or a ʿaḍannak ,

“a tall, fat ( laffāʾ ) female, the point of convergence of whose thighs has been narrowed by plumpness”

or a ʿātikah ,

a female who is “stained red with perfume”

or a mufallik ,

“a girl whose breasts have rounded out”

2.14.28

or a makmākah ,

a makmākah and a kamkāmah are females who are “short and compactly built”

or a habrakah ,

“a smooth girl”

or a asīlat al-khaddayn ,

[“smooth and even, or long, of cheek”] “a cheek that is asīl is long and even”

or a mubattalah ,

“a female so beautiful it is as though her comeliness had been cut up ( buttila , i.e., quṭṭiʿa ) and distributed to all of her limbs and who does not have parts of her flesh riding on top of other parts, and in whose limbs there is looseness”

or a bahlakah ,

“a smooth, blooming woman”

or a jamūlun jamlāʾ ,

“a jamūl is a female who is fat and a jamlāʾ is a female who is beautiful and comely of form, whether human or non-human”