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دقع

Root entry · 22 derived lemmas

The root دقع (d-q-ʿ) primarily relates to dust, earth, and the state of being low, humble, or impoverished due to circumstances. It extends to concepts of desperation, meanness, and even intense hunger.

Derived headwords

الدَّقْعَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    dustboth

    The general term for dust, or specifically fine dust on the surface of the earth.

وجرت به الدقعاء هيف، كأنها ... تسح ترابا من خصاصات منخل — And the dust carried it, light and swift, as if it were pouring dust from the holes of a sieve.
الدَّقْعَمnoun
  1. 1.
    dustclassical

    A variant of الدقعاء, with an added 'm' sound, used to mean dust.

بفيه الدقعم — May dust be in his mouth.
الأَدْقَعnoun
  1. 1.
    dustclassical

    Refers to dust.

الدُّقَاعnoun
  1. 1.
    dustclassical

    Refers to dust.

مَدَاقِيعnoun
  1. 1.
    dusty placesclassical

    Places covered in dust, or areas where dust accumulates.

مجازيع قفر مداقيعه — Traversers of desolate, dusty places.
الدَّاقِعadjective
  1. 1.
    content with lessclassical

    One who is satisfied with something inferior or less desirable.

  2. 2.
    melancholyclassical

    One who is sad and preoccupied.

المُدْقَعadjective
  1. 1.
    impoverishedclassical

    A poor person who is so destitute they are almost stuck to the earth due to poverty.

فقر مدقع أي ملصق بالدقعاء — Impoverished poverty, meaning stuck to the dust due to poverty.
الدَّوْقَعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    poverty and humiliationclassical

    A state of poverty and degradation, derived from the root meaning dust.

  2. 2.
    calamityclassical

    A disaster or misfortune.

رماه الله بالدوقعة — May God strike him with poverty and humiliation.
المَدَاقِيعnoun
  1. 1.
    camels eating low vegetationclassical

    Camels that eat vegetation so low it sticks to the ground due to scarcity.

دَقَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to stick to the groundboth

    To adhere to the earth, often due to poverty or humility.

  2. 2.
    to become poorboth

    To fall into poverty.

  3. 3.
    to be humbleboth

    To be submissive or humbled.

  4. 4.
    to be concernedclassical

    To be worried or preoccupied.

  5. 5.
    to be submissiveboth

    To yield or submit, especially in the face of hardship.

دقع الرجل دقعا — The man became poor.
أَدْقَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to stick to the groundboth

    To adhere to the earth, often due to poverty or humility.

  2. 2.
    to become poorboth

    To fall into poverty.

  3. 3.
    to be humbleboth

    To be submissive or humbled.

  4. 4.
    to be concernedclassical

    To be worried or preoccupied.

  5. 5.
    to be submissiveboth

    To yield or submit, especially in the face of hardship.

  6. 6.
    to be excessive in insultclassical

    To go to extremes in insulting someone, without restraint.

أدقع له وإليه في الشتم — He was excessive towards him in insult.
صَقْعَى دَقْعَىadjective
  1. 1.
    low and humbleclassical

    Describing people who are low, humble, and clinging to the ground.

رأيت القوم صقعى دقعى — I saw the people low and humble.
دَاقِعadjective
  1. 1.
    concernedclassical

    Worried and preoccupied.

  2. 2.
    submissiveclassical

    Humbled and yielding.

دُقُوعnoun
  1. 1.
    humiliationboth

    The state of being humbled or submissive.

  2. 2.
    concernclassical

    Worry and preoccupation.

دَقَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to be concernedclassical

    To be worried and preoccupied.

  2. 2.
    to be humbleboth

    To be submissive or humbled.

لم يدقعوا، عند ما نابهم، ... لصرف الزمان، ولم يخجلوا — They did not submit, when hardship befell them, to the turns of time, nor did they falter.
الدَّقْعnoun
  1. 1.
    poor enduranceclassical

    The inability to endure poverty well.

  2. 2.
    humilityboth

    The state of being humble or submissive, especially in seeking something.

إنكن إذا جعتن دقعتن وإذا شبعتن خجلتن — When you are hungry, you are humble, and when you are full, you are complacent.
المُدْقِعadjective
  1. 1.
    indifferentclassical

    One who does not care about the circumstances they find themselves in, whether in food, drink, or otherwise.

  2. 2.
    one who stoops to low thingsclassical

    One who engages in base or demeaning activities.

جُوعٌ دَيُقُوعnoun
  1. 1.
    intense hungerclassical

    Severe hunger, to the point of causing distress.

ألا سبيل إلى أرض يكون بها ... جوع، يصدع منه الرأس، ديقوع؟ — Is there no way to a land where there is hunger that splits the head, an intense hunger?
جُوعٌ أَدْقَعnoun
  1. 1.
    intense hungerclassical

    Severe hunger.

دَقَعَ الفصيلverb
  1. 1.
    to sniffclassical

    To sniff or smell, like a young camel.

الدَّوْقَعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    calamityclassical

    A great misfortune or disaster.

الدَّقْعَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    ant hillclassical

    An ant hill (a term used in Yemen).

Parallel reading

وجرت به الدقعاء هيف، كأنها ... تسح ترابا من خصاصات منخل
And the dust carried it, light and swift, as if it were pouring dust from the holes of a sieve.
بفيه الدقعم
May dust be in his mouth.
مجازيع قفر مداقيعه، ... مساريف حتى يصبن اليسارا
Traversers of desolate, dusty places, ... swift until they find the left (direction).
فقر مدقع أي ملصق بالدقعاء
Impoverished poverty, meaning stuck to the dust due to poverty.
لا تحل المسألة إلا لذي فقر مدقع
Begging is not permissible except for one in extreme poverty.
رماه الله بالدوقعة
May God strike him with poverty and humiliation.
المداقيع: الإبل التي كانت تأكل النبت حتى تلزقه بالدقعاء لقلته.
Al-Madaqā'īʿ: Camels that used to eat the vegetation until it stuck to the ground due to its scarcity.
دقع الرجل دقعا وأدقع: لصق بالدقعاء وغيره من أي شيء كان، وقيل: لصق بالدقعاء فقرا، وقيل ذلا.
A man 'daqa'a' and 'adqa'a': he stuck to the dust and other things, or it is said he stuck to the dust out of poverty, or out of humiliation.
ودقع دقعا وأدقع: افتقر.
And he 'daqa'a' and 'adqa'a': he became poor.
ورأيت القوم صقعى دقعى أي لاصقين بالأرض.
And I saw the people 'ṣaʿqā daqʿā', meaning clinging to the ground.
ودقع دقعا وأدقع: أسف إلى مداق الكسب، فهو داقع.
And he 'daqa'a' and 'adqa'a': he was eager for the lowest means of livelihood, so he is 'dāqiʿ'.
والداقع: الكئيب المهتم أيضا.
And 'al-dāqiʿ': also the sad and preoccupied one.
ودقع دقعا ودقوعا ودقع دقعا، فهو دقع: اهتم وخضع؛
And he 'daqa'a' 'daqāʿan' and 'duqūʿan' and 'daqiʿa' 'daqaʿan', so he is 'dadiʿ': concerned and submissive;
لم يدقعوا، عند ما نابهم، ... لصرف الزمان، ولم يخجلوا
They did not submit, when hardship befell them, to the turns of time, nor did they falter.
إنكن إذا جعتن دقعتن وإذا شبعتن خجلتن
When you are hungry, you are humble, and when you are full, you are complacent.
ألا سبيل إلى أرض يكون بها ... جوع، يصدع منه الرأس، ديقوع؟
Is there no way to a land where there is hunger that splits the head, an intense hunger?
وأدقع له وإليه في الشتم وغيره: بالغ ولم يتكرم عن قبيح القول ولم يأل قذعا.
And he 'adqa'a' to him and towards him in insult and other things: he exaggerated and did not refrain from ugly speech and did not spare any slander.