أشعث

Color or defect adjective from the root ش ع ث (š ʕ ṯ).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaʃ.ʕaθ/

أَشْعَث • (ʔašʕaṯ) (feminine شَعْثَاء (šaʕṯāʔ), common plural شُعْث (šuʕṯ), feminine plural شَعْثَاوَات (šaʕṯāwāt))

1. (of a person, their head, or their hair) shaggy; unkempt
   • 9th century CE, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī, الجامع الصحيح [The Canonical Collection]:

     قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ طَيِّبٌ لَا يَقْبَلُ إِلَّا طَيِّبًا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِمَا أَمَرَ بِهِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ فَقَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ كُلُوا مِنْ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَاعْمَلُوا صَالِحًا إِنِّي بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ عَلِيمٌ وَقَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُلُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ الرَّجُلَ يُطِيلُ السَّفَرَ أَشْعَثَ أَغْبَرَ يَمُدُّ يَدَيْهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ يَا رَبِّ يَا رَبِّ وَمَطْعَمُهُ حَرَامٌ وَمَشْرَبُهُ حَرَامٌ وَمَلْبَسُهُ حَرَامٌ وَغُذِيَ بِالْحَرَامِ فَأَنَّى يُسْتَجَابُ لِذَلِكَ

     qāla rasūlu l-lahi ṣallā l-lahu ʕalayhi wasallama ʔayyuhā n-nāsu ʔinna l-laha ṭayyibun lā yaqbalu ʔillā ṭayyiban waʔinna l-laha ʔamara l-muʔminīna bimā ʔamara bihi l-mursalīna faqāla yā ʔayyuhā r-rusulu kulū min aṭ-ṭayyibāti wāʕmalū ṣāliḥan ʔinnī bimā taʕmalūna ʕalīmun waqāla yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum ṯumma ḏakara r-rajula yuṭīlu s-safara ʔašʕaṯa ʔaḡbara yamuddu yadayhi ʔilā s-samāʔi yā rabbi yā rabbi wamaṭʕamuhu ḥarāmun wamašrabuhu ḥarāmun wamalbasuhu ḥarāmun waḡuḏiya bi-l-ḥarāmi faʔannā yustajābu liḏalika

     The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grand him peace, said, "O people, God is good, and he accepts only good things. God has charged the believers with what he charged the messengers, for he said then, 'O messengers, eat good things and do good. I am well-informed of what you do', and he has said, 'O believers, eat from the good things that we have bestowed upon you.' Then he spoke of a man who would travel overmuch, a shaggy, dust-covered man who would stretch out his hands to the heavens: "My Lord! My Lord!" Yet, his food had been unlawful, his drink had been unlawful, his clothing had been unlawful, and he had been nourished with unlawfulness. "How would such a one ever be answered?"

• جَعْد (jaʕd, “(of hair) kinky, curly, frizzy; bushy”)
• أَزَبّ (ʔazabb, “fuzzy”)
• أَزْغَب (ʔazḡab, “downy; fluffy”)