ص غ ر

ص غ ر • (ṣ-ḡ-r)

1. related to smallness and youngness

• ك ب ر‎ (k b r)

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: صَغُرَ‎ (ṣaḡura, “to be or become small, diminish, decrease; to be young; to be lowly, humble”)
  • Verbal noun: صِغَر‎ (ṣiḡar), صَغَارَة‎ ( ṣaḡāra)
  • Active participle: صَاغِر‎ (ṣāḡir, “lowly, contemptible, humiliated, submissive, subject”)
• Form I: صَغِرَ‎ (ṣaḡira)
  • Verbal noun: صَغَر‎ (ṣaḡar)
  • Active participle: صَاغِر‎ (ṣāḡir)
• Form II: صَغَّرَ‎ (ṣaḡḡara, “to make small or smaller, lessen, minimize, reduce, decrease, belittle, deride, ridicule”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصْغِير‎ (taṣḡīr, “diminution, lessening, decrease, reduction”)
  • Active participle: مُصَغِّر‎ (muṣaḡḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُصَغَّر‎ (muṣaḡḡar, “reduced, decreased, diminished, scaled down”)
• Form IV: أَصْغَرَ‎ (ʾaṣḡara, “to make contemptible, consider as contemptible”)
  • Verbal noun: إِصْغَار‎ (ʾiṣḡār, “disdain, contempt, disregard”)
  • Active participle: مُصْغِر‎ (muṣḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُصْغَر‎ (muṣḡar)
• Form VI: تَصَاغَرَ‎ (taṣāḡara, “to prove oneself contemptible, grovel, to feel small”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصَاغُر‎ (taṣāḡur, “servility, groveling”)
  • Active participle: مُتَصَاغِر‎ (mutaṣāḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَصَاغَر‎ (mutaṣāḡar)
• Form X: اِسْتَصْغَرَ‎ (istaṣḡara, “to deem small, undervalue”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِصْغَار‎ (istiṣḡār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَصْغِر‎ (mustaṣḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَصْغَر‎ (mustaṣḡar)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• صَغِير‎ (ṣaḡīr, “small, little, insignificant, tiny, young”)
  • صَغِيرَة‎ (ṣaḡīra, “venial sin (Islam), minor mistake”)
  • أَصْغَر‎ (ʾaṣḡar, “smaller, littler, younger, lesser”); plural صَغَائِر‎ (ṣaḡāʾir, “trifles”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “صغر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN