اشد
Root: شخلل
2 entries for this word
Hans Wehr Definitions
Entry 1
اشد ašadd2 stronger, more intense, severer, harder, worse │ used with foll. indeterminate abstract substantives as paraphrase of simple elatives, e.g., اشد سوادا (sawādan) blacker, اشد غضبا (gaḍaban) more wrathful, angrier; اشد ما يكون extremely, exceedingly, very much, e.g., روحهم اشد ما يكون تعطشا الى العلم (rūḥuhum, ta‘attušan, ‘ilm) they are extremely eager for knowledge
Entry 2
اشد ašudd physical maturity, virility │ بلغ اشده to attain full maturity, come of legal age; to reach its climax