Rat
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a rat · rat · the rat · ʻaḍal · الجرذ · العضل
spoken of as
1 expressionthe rat1 mention
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
for if it were admissible that the Arabs should name themselves after an animal and worship it, “the camel (*al-jamal*)” or “the camel (*al-baʻīr*)” would have had the better claim, given how they cannot do without it and how old its place is among them — and yet there is no tribe named after it save this Bakr!
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The rodent said to be the sense of the tribal name ʻAḍal, a reading Zaydan sets against the word's other senses of cunning and ugliness in men.
for if it were admissible that the Arabs should name themselves after an animal and worship it, “the camel (*al-jamal*)” or “the camel (*al-baʻīr*)” would have had the better claim, given how they cannot do without it and how old its place is among them — and yet there is no tribe named after it save this Bakr!
Banū Asad — Banū Jaʻdah — Banū Ḍabb — Banū Qahd » Badan — » Juʻal — » Ḍubayʻah — » Kalb » Bakr — » Ḥidāʼ — » ʻAḍal — » Naʻāmah » Bahthah — » Ḥamāmah — » ʻAnz — » Namir » Thaʻlab — » Ḥanash — » Ghurāb — » Wabr » Thawr — » Duʼbul — » Fahd — » Hawzan Banū Jaḥsh — Banū Dubb — Banū Qird — Banū Yarbūʻ » Jarād — » Dhiʼb — » Qunfud —
Rigveda
A rat referenced as a minor source of mischief to be purged by Soma.
The axe of the Alāyya has perished — cleanse away that, O divine Soma;
Law in a Free State
A rat used in an analogy illustrating how a weaker party fighting for survival can prevail over a stronger, less motivated opponent.
But it must not be forgotten that the stronger will often yield to the weaker when the prize is not worth fighting for.