• shāʾ ʿāzib — sheep that graze at a far-off pasture.
• ablaj al-wajh — a face radiant and bright.
• thajlah — a large belly whose lower part hangs loose.
• saʿlah — a small head; some narrate it as saqlah, meaning extreme thinness and wasting away, while saql refers to ribs that seem detached at the flank.
• wasīm — celebrated for beauty, as though comeliness has become his very hallmark.
• qasīm — a face in which beauty is evenly apportioned.
• waṭf — tall stature.
• ṣaḥl — a kind of mild hoarseness.
• saṭʿ — a long neck.
• la taqtaḥimuhu ʿaynun min qaṣr — no eye disdains him for shortness and passes him over; rather, every eye holds him in awe and accepts him.
• maḥfūd — one who is served and attended to.
• maḥshūd — the person around whom people gather.
• mufannad — deemed ignorant and feeble-minded.
• ḍurrah — the base of the udder.
• muzbid — read with a lowered vowel (in the genitive) by attraction to the word that precedes it.