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سغسغ

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes the action of thoroughly applying or working something into another substance, often involving lubrication, saturation, or deep penetration. It extends to concepts of movement, insertion, and even escaping or getting out of a situation.

Derived headwords

سَغْسَغَverb
  1. 1.
    to lubricate thoroughlyboth

    To apply oil or fat thoroughly, especially into hair, saturating it.

  2. 2.
    to saturate with fatboth

    To drench food, like thareed, with fat or oil, making it rich.

  3. 3.
    to work intoboth

    To push or work something into a substance, like soil.

  4. 4.
    to moveclassical

    To move something from its place, like a stake.

سَغْسَغَةnoun
  1. 1.
    thorough lubricationboth

    The act of thoroughly applying oil or fat, especially into hair.

  2. 2.
    saturation with fatboth

    The act of saturating food with fat or oil.

  3. 3.
    working intoboth

    The act of pushing or working something into a substance.

  4. 4.
    movementclassical

    The act of moving something from its place.

سَغْسَاغًاnoun
  1. 1.
    thorough lubricationclassical

    A variant masdar for the act of thoroughly applying oil or fat, especially into hair.

التَّسَغْسُغnoun
  1. 1.
    deep penetrationclassical

    The act of going deep into the land or earth.

  2. 2.
    getting out ofclassical

    The act of extricating oneself from a matter or situation.

أَسْغَسَغَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to saturate itboth

    To make something saturated, particularly referring to applying oil to one's head.

Parallel reading

سغسغ الدهن في رأسه سغسغة وسغساغا: أدخله تحت شعره.
He thoroughly applied the oil into his head, سغسغة and سغساغا: he inserted it under his hair.
وسغسغ رأسه بالدهن: رواه ووضع عليه الدهن بكفيه وعصره ليتشرب
And he thoroughly applied the oil to his head: he saturated it and placed the oil on it with his palms and squeezed it so it would be absorbed.
إن لم يعقني عائق التسغسغ أراد الإيغال في الأرض
If no impediment prevents me from التسغسغ, he intended deep penetration into the land.
أما أنا فأسغسغه في رأسي أي أرويه
As for me, I أسغسغه in my head, meaning I saturate it.
وسغسغ الطعام سغسغة: أوسعه دسما
And he thoroughly applied fat to the food, سغسغة: he made it abundant with fat.
وصنع منه ثريدة ثم سغسغها ، بالسين والغين، أي رواها بالدهن والسمن
And he made thareed from it, then he سغسغها, with sin and ghayn, meaning he saturated it with oil and ghee.
وسغسغ الشيء في التراب: دحرجه ودسسه فيه.
And he worked the thing into the soil: he rolled it and pushed it into it.
وسغسغ الشيء: حركه من موضعه مثل الوتد وما أشبهه.
And he moved the thing: he moved it from its place, like a stake and its like.
تسغسغ من الأمر: تخلص منه.
He extricated himself from the matter: he got rid of it.
وتسغسغ في الأرض أي دخل
And he entered into the land, meaning he penetrated.
إن لم يعقني عائق التسغسغ في الأرض، فارقبني
If no impediment prevents me from التسغسغ in the land, then watch me.
وقيل: أراد الإيغال في الأرض كما تقدم.
And it was said: he intended deep penetration into the land as previously mentioned.