زاغ

See also: راع

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ز ي غ (z-y-ḡ).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /zaː.ɣa/

Verb

زَاغَ (zāḡa) I, non-past يَزِيغُ‎ (yazīḡu)

  1. to deviate, to turn away, to swerve
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:10:
      إِذْ جَاؤُوكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَإِذْ زَاغَتْ الأَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتْ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللّٰهِ الظُّنُونَا
      ʾiḏ jāʾūkum min fawqikum wamin ʾasfala minkum waʾiḏ zāḡat al-ʾabṣāru wabalaḡat al-qulūbu l-ḥanājira wataẓunnūna bi-l-lāhi ẓ-ẓunūnā
      [Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when the gazes shifted, and the hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah assumptions.

Conjugation


Persian

Etymology

From Middle Iranian, from Proto-Iranian (compare Sogdian [script needed] (zʾγ /zāγ/, crow), Kurdish zax (crow), Parthian [script needed] (zxs- /zaxs-/, to sound)).

Noun

Dari Persian زاغ
Iranian Persian زاغ
Tajiki Persian зоғ (zoġ)

زاغ (zâğ)

  1. rook (bird)
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