غوص

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of submerging or descending into water, often for the purpose of pearl diving. It extends to metaphorical meanings of delving into something, and also includes specific terms related to a woman's menstrual cycle and deception.

Derived headwords

غَاصَverb

1.
to diveboth
To descend or submerge oneself under water.
2.
to delve intoclassical
To penetrate deeply into a subject or matter.

غَوْصnoun

1.
divingboth
The act of descending or submerging under water.
2.
pearl divingboth
The specific act of diving into the sea to retrieve pearls.
3.
place of pearl divingclassical
A location from which pearls are extracted.
4.
deceptionclassical
An act of attacking or intruding upon something.

غَائِصnoun

1.
diverboth
One who dives under water, especially a pearl diver.
2.
one who delvesclassical
One who attacks or intrudes upon something.

غَوَّاصnoun

1.
pearl diverboth
A person who dives into the sea to extract pearls.
2.
diverboth
A person who dives underwater.

غَاصَّةnoun

1.
pearl extractorsclassical
Those who extract pearls from the sea.
2.
divers (plural)classical
Plural of غائص, referring to divers.

غَوَّاصُونnoun

1.
pearl divers (plural)both
Plural of غواص, referring to those who dive for pearls.

غَيَّاصَةnoun

1.
act of pearl divingclassical
The action or profession of diving for pearls.

مَغَاصnoun

1.
place of pearl divingclassical
A location where pearls are found and extracted.

غَائِصَةnoun

1.
menstruating woman (unaware)classical
A menstruating woman who is unaware of her condition and does not inform her husband.

مُتَغَوِّصَةnoun

1.
woman feigning menstruationclassical
A woman who is not menstruating but falsely claims to be, in order to deceive her husband.

مُغَوِّصَةnoun

1.
woman feigning menstruationclassical
A woman who falsely claims to be menstruating when she is not.

Parallel reading

الغوص: النزول تحت الماء

Diving: descending under water.

وقيل: الغوص الدخول في الماء

And it was said: diving is entering into water.

غاص في الماء غوصا، فهو غائص وغواص

He dived into the water, diving; he is a diver and a pearl diver.

والجمع غاصة وغواصون

And the plural is ghassah (pearl extractors) and ghawwasun (pearl divers).

والغوص موضع يخرج منه اللؤلؤ

And al-ghaws is a place from which pearls are extracted.

والغواص: الذي يغوص في البحر على اللؤلؤ

And the ghawwas: he who dives in the sea for pearls.

والغاصة مستخرجوه، وفعله الغياصة

And the ghassah are its extractors, and its action is al-ghayassah (the act of pearl diving).

يقال للذي يغوص على الأصداف في البحر فيستخرجها غائص وغواص

It is said of the one who dives for shells in the sea and extracts them: ghā'is and ghawwāṣ.

وذلك المكان يقال له المغاص

And that place is called al-maghās.

والغوص فعل الغائص

And al-ghawṣ is the action of the ghā'is (diver).

إنه نهى عن ضربة الغائص

He prohibited the 'strike of the diver'.

هو أن يقول له أغوص في البحر غوصة بكذا، فما أخرجته فهو لك

It is that one says to him: 'Dive into the sea for me for such and such a price, and whatever you bring out is yours'.

وإنما نهى عنه لأنه غرر

And he only prohibited it because it is uncertainty (gharar).

والغوص: الهجوم على الشيء، والهاجم عليه غائص

And al-ghawṣ: attacking something, and the attacker upon it is ghā'is.

والغائصة: الحائض التي لا تعلم أنها حائض

And al-ghā'iṣah: the menstruating woman who does not know she is menstruating.

والمتغوصة: التي لا تكون حائضا فتخبر زوجها أنها حائض

And al-mutaghawwiṣah: she who is not menstruating but tells her husband that she is menstruating.

لعنت الغائصة والمتغوصة

The ghā'iṣah and the mutaghawwiṣah are cursed.

فالغائصة الحائض التي لا تعلم زوجها أنها حائض ليجتنبها فيجامعها وهي حائض

So the ghā'iṣah is the menstruating woman who does not inform her husband that she is menstruating, so that he may avoid her, and then he has intercourse with her while she is menstruating.

والمغوصة التي لا تكون حائضا فتكذب فتقول لزوجها إني حائض

And the mughawwiṣah is she who is not menstruating and lies, saying to her husband: 'Indeed, I am menstruating'.