قوع

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes actions related to striking, mounting, and ascending, often in the context of animals. It also extensively defines various types of flat, open, and low-lying land, particularly those that retain water.

Derived headwords

قَاعَ، يَقُوعُverb

1.
to strike, to mountclassical
To strike a female camel, or to mount her. This is a reversal of the root قعا (qāʿa).

اقْتَاعَ، يَقْتَاعُverb

1.
to mount (animal)classical
Used for a male camel when it is aroused and mounts a female camel.
2.
to ascend, to climbclassical
To ascend or climb something, like a chameleon climbing a tree.

يقتاعها كل فصيل مكرم — He mounts her, every honored young camel [meaning they ride her] — This was explained as 'he mounts her', referring to a tall female camel whose offspring are also tall, so they ride her.

تَقَوَّعَ، يَتَقَوَّعُverb

1.
to ascend, to climbclassical
To ascend or climb a tree, similar to how a male camel mounts a female.

القَاعُnoun

1.
flat, open landboth
A wide, easy, level, and firm expanse of land without ruggedness, elevation, or depression, separated from mountains and hills. It contains no pebbles or stones and does not grow trees. Its surroundings are higher than it, and it is a place where water collects.
2.
water basinclassical
A place where water collects, especially in mud.
3.
level groundclassical
What is level and firm on the ground, without vegetation.
4.
fertile plainclassical
A plain of fertile clay that grows the Sidr tree.
5.
level placeclassical
A level and wide place in low ground that receives rainwater and sustains vegetation.

تركتها قد ابيض قاعها — I left it, its plain has become white — meaning the rainwater washed it and it became white, or it became abundant with vegetation like a pool.

القَاعَةُnoun

1.
courtyardboth
The courtyard of a house, its open space, similar to 'qāḥah'.
2.
water collection areaclassical
The place where the bucket reaches its end from the well.

في قاعة الدار يستوقدن بالغبط — in the courtyard of the house, lighting fires with joy —

القِيْعُnoun

1.
flat, open landboth
A wide, easy, level, and firm expanse of land without ruggedness, elevation, or depression, separated from mountains and hills. It contains no pebbles or stones and does not grow trees. Its surroundings are higher than it, and it is a place where water collects.

القِيْعَةُnoun

1.
plainboth
A plain, often referring to a collection of 'qāʿ' (plains). It is a collective noun for 'qāʿ'.
2.
level groundclassical
Level ground where mirages appear at noon.

كَسَرَابٍ بِقِيْعَةٍ — like a mirage in a plain —

أقْوَاعٌnoun

1.
plainsboth
Plural of 'qāʿ', referring to wide, flat, low-lying lands.
2.
flat surfacesclassical
Flat surfaces for dates or grain, like a threshing floor.

وودعن أقواع الشماليل — and they left the northern plains —

قَوِيْعَةٌnoun

1.
small plainboth
Diminutive of 'qāʿ', referring to a small plain.

قَوِيْعٌnoun

1.
small plainboth
Diminutive of 'qāʿ', referring to a small plain (masculine form).

القُوَّاعُnoun

1.
howling wolfclassical
A wolf that howls.
2.
male rabbitclassical
The male of the rabbits.

القِيَاعُnoun

1.
cowardly pigclassical
A cowardly pig.

القَاعَةُnoun

1.
courtyardboth
The courtyard of a house, its open space.

في قاعة الدار يستوقدن بالغبط — in the courtyard of the house, lighting fires with joy —

القَاعَاتُnoun

1.
courtyardsboth
Plural of 'qāʿah', referring to courtyards.

القَوَّاعَةُnoun

1.
female rabbitclassical
The female of the rabbits.

القِيْعَانُnoun

1.
plainsboth
Plural of 'qāʿ', referring to plains that hold water and grow grass.

إنما هي قيعان أمسكت الماء — They are but plains that held water —

القَوْعُnoun

1.
threshing floorclassical
A flat surface for dates or grain, like a threshing floor, barn, or granary.

Parallel reading

قاع الفحل الناقة وعلى الناقة يقوعها قوعا وقياعا واقتاعها وتقوعها: ضربها، وهو قلب قعا.

The male camel struck the female camel, and mounted her, striking her with a striking and a mounting, and he mounted her and climbed her: he struck her, and it is a reversal of قعا (qāʿa).

واقتاع الفحل إذا هاج؛

And the male camel mounts when it is aroused;

يقتاعها كل فصيل مكرم، ... كالحبشي يرتقي في السلم

He mounts her, every honored young camel, ... like an Abyssinian climbing a ladder

فسره فقال: يقتاعها يقع عليها،

He explained it, saying: 'He mounts her' means he falls upon her,

وتقوع الحرباء الشجرة إذا علاها كما يتقوع الفحل الناقة.

And the chameleon climbs the tree when it ascends it, just as the male camel mounts the female.

والقواع: الذئب الصياح.

And Al-Qawāʿ: the howling wolf.

والقياع: الخنزير الجبان.

And Al-Qiyāʿ: the cowardly pig.

والقاع والقاعة والقيع: أرض واسعة سهلة مطمئنة مستوية حرة لا حزونة فيها ولا ارتفاع ولا انهباط، تنفرج عنها الجبال والآكام، ولا حصى فيها ولا حجارة ولا تنبت الشجر، وما حواليها أرفع منها وهو مصب المياه،

And Al-Qāʿ, Al-Qāʿah, and Al-Qīʿ: a wide, easy, settled, level, free land without ruggedness, elevation, or depression, from which mountains and hills recede. It has no pebbles or stones, and no trees grow in it. Its surroundings are higher than it, and it is a place where water collects,

وقيل: هو منقع الماء في حر الطين،

And it is said: it is a place where water collects in fertile clay,

وقيل: هو ما استوى من الأرض وصلب ولم يكن فيه نبات،

And it is said: it is what is level and firm on the ground, and has no vegetation,

والجمع أقواع وأقوع وقيعان،

And the plural is 'aqwāʿ', 'aqwuʿ', and 'qīʿān',

صارت الواو ياء لكسرة ما قبلها، وقيعة ولا نظير له إلا جار وجيرة،

The 'wāw' became 'yā' due to the kasrah before it, and 'qīʿah', and there is no parallel to it except 'jār' and 'jīrah',

كあるسراب بقيعة

like a mirage in a plain

قال: والقاع ما انبسط من الأرض وفيه يكون السراب نصف النهار.

He said: And Al-Qāʿ is what is spread out on the ground, and in it mirages appear at noon.

قال أبو الهيثم: القاع الأرض الحرة الطين التي لا يخالطها رمل فيشرب ماءها، وهي مستوية ليس فيها تطامن ولا ارتفاع، وإذا خالطها الرمل لم تكن قاعا لأنها تشرب الماء فلا تمسكه،

Abū Al-Haytham said: Al-Qāʿ is the fertile clay land that is not mixed with sand, so it drinks its water. It is level, with no depression or elevation. If sand mixes with it, it is not called Qāʿ because it absorbs water and does not retain it,

ويصغر قويعة من أنث، ومن ذكر قال قويع،

And the diminutive for a female is 'quwayʿah', and for a male, it is said 'quwayʿ',

يقال قاع وقيعان وهي طين حر ينبت السدر؛

It is said 'qāʿ' and 'qīʿān', and it is fertile clay that grows the Sidr tree;

وودعن أقواع الشماليل، بعد ما ... ذوى بقلها، أحرارها وذكورها

And they left the northern plains, after their vegetation had withered, the fertile and the non-fertile ones

كيف تركت مكة؟ قال: تركتها قد ابيض قاعها؛

How did you leave Mecca? He said: I left it, its plain has become white;

القاع: المكان المستوي الواسع في وطاءة من الأرض يعلوه ماء السماء فيمسكه ويستوي نباته، أراد أن ماء المطر غسله فابيض أو كثر عليه فبقي كالغدير الواحد.

Al-Qāʿ: the level, wide place in low ground that receives the sky's water and retains it, and its vegetation is even. He meant that the rainwater washed it and it became white, or it became abundant with it and remained like a single pool.

إنما هي قيعان أمسكت الماء.

They are but plains that held water.

والواحد منها قاع وهي أرض صلبة القفاف حرة طين القيعان، تمسك الماء وتنبت العشب،

And one of them is 'qāʿ', and it is a land of firm, high ground, fertile clay of the plains, it retains water and grows grass,

وحوالي القيعان سلقان وآكام في رؤوس القفاف غليظة تنصب مياهها في القيعان،

And around the plains are slopes and hills on top of thick elevations, whose waters flow into the plains,

ومن قيعانها ما ينبت الضال فترى حرجات، ومنها ما لا ينبت وهى أرض مرية، إذا أعشبت ربعت العرب أجمع.

And some of its plains grow the 'ḍāl' tree, so you see patches of it, and some do not grow it, and it is a fertile land; when it greens, all the Arabs settle there.

والقوع: مسطح التمر أو البر، عبدية، والجمع أقواع؛

And Al-Qawʿ: a flat surface for dates or grain, 'abadiyyah', and the plural is 'aqwāʿ';

وكذلك البيدر والأندر والجرين.

And likewise the threshing floor, the barn, and the granary.

والقاعة: موضع منتهى السانية من مجذب الدلو.

And Al-Qāʿah: the place where the bucket reaches its end from the well.

وقاعة الدار: ساحتها مثل القاحة، وجمعها قوعات؛

And Qāʿat Al-Dār: its courtyard, like Al-Qāḥah, and its plural is 'qāʿāt';

وهل تركت نساء الحي ضاحية، ... في قاعة الدار، يستوقدن بالغبط؟

And did you leave the women of the tribe exposed to the sun, ... in the courtyard of the house, lighting fires with joy?

وكذلك باحتها وصرحتها.

And likewise its open space and its courtyard.

والقواع: الذكر من الأرانب.

And Al-Qawāʿ: the male of the rabbits.

والقواعة الأرنب الأنثى.

And Al-Qawwāʿah: the female rabbit.