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ذوق

Root entry · 29 derived lemmas

The root ذوق (dhawq) primarily relates to the sense of taste and experiencing something, whether pleasant or unpleasant. It extends to knowing, testing, and experiencing situations, emotions, or abstract concepts. The root also encompasses the idea of quick succession in marriage and divorce, and the concept of being easily bored or fickle.

Derived headwords

ذَاقَverb
  1. 1.
    to tasteboth

    To perceive the flavor of something with the tongue.

  2. 2.
    to experienceboth

    To undergo or encounter something, often unpleasant, like hardship or punishment.

  3. 3.
    to testboth

    To try or examine something to know its quality or nature.

  4. 4.
    to know intimatelyclassical

    To become thoroughly acquainted with a person or situation.

ذاق الشيء يذوقه ذوقا وذواقا ومذاقا — He tasted the thing, tasting it with taste and flavor.
ذقت فلانا وذقت ما عنده أي خبرته — I tasted so-and-so and tasted what he had, meaning I experienced him.
فذاقوا وبال أمرهم — So they tasted the consequence of their affair.
ذاق الرجل عسيلة المرأة إذا أولج فيها إذاقة حتى خبر طيب جماعها — A man tasted a woman's honey-like substance when he entered her, until he knew the goodness of their intercourse.
الذَّوْقnoun
  1. 1.
    tasteboth

    The sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth.

  2. 2.
    experienceboth

    The act or process of undergoing or encountering something.

  3. 3.
    testingboth

    The act of trying or examining something.

  4. 4.
    knowledgeclassical

    Understanding or awareness gained through experience.

الذوق: مصدر ذاق الشيء يذوقه ذوقا وذواقا ومذاقا — Taste: the source of 'dhawqa' and 'dhawāqan' and 'madhāqan' from the verb 'dhawqa' meaning to taste something.
والذوق: يكون فيما يكره ويحمد — And taste can be in what is disliked and what is praised.
فأذاقها الله لباس الجوع والخوف ؛ أي ابتلاها بسوء ما خبرت من عقاب الجوع والخوف — So Allah made them taste the garment of hunger and fear; meaning He afflicted them with the evil they experienced of the punishment of hunger and fear.
وإنما كانوا إذا خرجوا من عنده لا يتفرقون إلا عن ذواق — And they would not disperse from him except with a taste; meaning with knowledge and ادب they learned.
ذَوَّاقnoun
  1. 1.
    tasterboth

    One who tastes food or drink.

  2. 2.
    food/drinkboth

    That which is eaten or drunk.

  3. 3.
    fickle personclassical

    One who is quick to marry and divorce, or easily bored.

  4. 4.
    boredomclassical

    The state of being easily bored or weary.

فالذواق والمذاق يكونان مصدرين ويكونان طعما — And 'al-dhawwāq' and 'al-madhāq' can be sources and can be flavors.
والذواق: هو المأكول والمشروب — And 'al-dhawwāq' is that which is eaten and drunk.
لم يكن يذم ذواقا — He did not disparage those who tasted.
إن الله لا يحب الذواقين والذواقات ؛ يعني السريعي النكاح السريعي الطلاق — Indeed, Allah does not love the 'dhawwāqīn' and 'dhawwāqāt'; meaning those quick to marry and quick to divorce.
مَذَاقnoun
  1. 1.
    tasteboth

    The flavor of something.

  2. 2.
    testingboth

    The act of tasting or trying something.

كما تقول ذواقه ومذاقه طيب — As you say, its flavor and its taste are good.
والمذاق: طعم الشيء — And 'al-madhāq' is the taste of a thing.
مُسْتَذَاقadjective
  1. 1.
    testedboth

    Having been tried or experienced.

  2. 2.
    knownboth

    Understood or recognized through experience.

وأمر مستذاق أي مجرب معلوم — And a matter 'mustadhāq' meaning tried and known.
تَذَوَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to taste graduallyboth

    To taste something little by little.

  2. 2.
    to savorboth

    To enjoy the taste of something.

وتذوقته أي ذقته شيئا بعد شيء — And I tasted it, meaning I tasted it little by little.
أَذَاقَverb
  1. 1.
    to make tasteboth

    To cause someone to taste something.

  2. 2.
    to make experienceboth

    To cause someone to undergo or experience something, often negative.

  3. 3.
    to becomeclassical

    To become something, like noble or an enemy.

وأذاقه الله وبال أمره — And Allah made him taste the consequence of his affair.
يقال أذاق فلان بعدك سروا أي صار سريا — It is said so-and-so became noble after you, meaning he became noble.
وأذاق الفرس بعدك عدوا أي صار عداء بعدك — And the horse became an enemy after you, meaning it became an enemy after you.
ذَوَّاقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    tasterboth

    A female taster.

  2. 2.
    food/drinkboth

    That which is eaten or drunk.

  3. 3.
    fickle womanclassical

    A woman quick to marry and divorce.

كما تقول ذواقه ومذاقه طيب — As you say, its flavor and its taste are good.
إن الله لا يحب الذواقين والذواقات ؛ يعني السريعي النكاح السريعي الطلاق — Indeed, Allah does not love the 'dhawwāqīn' and 'dhawwāqāt'; meaning those quick to marry and quick to divorce.
مُذَاوَقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    mutual tastingclassical

    The act of tasting something together.

تَذْوَاقnoun
  1. 1.
    tastingclassical

    The act of tasting.

ذَوَّاقِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    tastingclassical

    Relating to tasting.

ذَوَّاقِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    tastefulnessclassical

    The quality of having good taste.

ذَوَّاقِيَّاتnoun
  1. 1.
    tastesclassical

    Things that are tasted.

ذَوَّاقِيَّةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    ficklenessclassical

    The quality of being quick to marry and divorce.

ذَوَّاقِيٌّadjective
  1. 1.
    fickleclassical

    Quick to marry and divorce.

ذَوَّاقٌadjective
  1. 1.
    fickleclassical

    Quick to marry and divorce.

ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    boredclassical

    Easily bored or weary.

والذواق: الملول — And 'al-dhawwāq' is the bored one.
اسْتَذَاقَverb
  1. 1.
    to test thoroughlyclassical

    To test someone or something extensively.

واستذقت فلانا إذا خبرته فلم تحمد مخبرته — And 'istadhāqtu' a person if you tested him and did not praise his disposition.
تَذَوَّقُهُverb
  1. 1.
    tasting itboth

    The act of tasting it.

يهززن للمشي أوصالا منعمة، ... أو كاهتزاز رديني تذاوقه ... أيدي التجار فزادوا متنه لينا — They shake supple limbs for walking, ... or like the shaking of a tunic that the hands of merchants taste, increasing its softness.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    one who tastesboth

    Someone who experiences or tastes.

وما ذقت ذواقا أي شيئا — And I did not taste 'dhawāqan', meaning anything.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    one who is quick to marry and divorceclassical

    A person, male or female, who frequently marries and divorces.

ورجل ذواق مطلاق إذا كان كثير النكاح كثير الطلاق — And a man 'dhawwāq' and 'mitlāq' if he is much married and much divorced.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    one who is easily boredclassical

    Someone who is easily weary or bored.

والذواق: الملول — And 'al-dhawwāq' is the bored one.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    something tastedboth

    That which is tasted, especially food.

وما ذقت ذواقا أي شيئا، وهو ما يذاق من الطعام — And I did not taste 'dhawāqan', meaning anything, which is what is tasted of food.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    experienceclassical

    An experience, especially of hardship.

ويوم ما ذقته طعاما أي ما ذقت فيه، وذاق العذاب والمكروه ونحو ذلك، وهو مثل — And a day I did not taste food in it, meaning I did not taste in it, and he tasted torment and hardship and the like, which is a proverb.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a taste of somethingclassical

    A sample or experience of something.

ذق عقق أي ذق طعم مخالفتك لنا وتركك دينك الذي كنت عليه يا عاق قومه — Taste disobedience, meaning taste the flavor of your disobedience to us and your abandonment of the religion you were upon, O disobedient one to your people.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a taste of hardshipclassical

    An experience of suffering or punishment.

وفي التنزيل: ذق إنك أنت العزيز الكريم — And in the Quran: Taste, indeed you are the mighty, the noble.
ذَوَّاقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a taste of consequenceclassical

    Experiencing the result of one's actions.

وقوله تعالى: فذاقوا وبال أمرهم — And His saying, the Almighty: So they tasted the consequence of their affair.
تَذَاوَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to taste togetherclassical

    To taste something mutually.

وتذاوق القوم الشيء كذاقوه — And the people tasted the thing together, as they tasted it.
أَذَاقَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to make him tasteboth

    To cause him to taste something.

  2. 2.
    to make him experienceboth

    To cause him to undergo or experience something.

وأذقته إياه — And I made him taste it.

Parallel reading

الذوق: مصدر ذاق الشيء يذوقه ذوقا وذواقا ومذاقا
Taste: the source of 'dhawqa' and 'dhawāqan' and 'madhāqan' from the verb 'dhawqa' meaning to taste something.
فالذواق والمذاق يكونان مصدرين ويكونان طعما
And 'al-dhawwāq' and 'al-madhāq' can be sources and can be flavors.
كما تقول ذواقه ومذاقه طيب
As you say, its flavor and its taste are good.
والمذاق: طعم الشيء
And 'al-madhāq' is the taste of a thing.
والذواق: هو المأكول والمشروب
And 'al-dhawwāq' is that which is eaten and drunk.
وما ذقت ذواقا أي شيئا
And I did not taste 'dhawāqan', meaning anything.
وتقول: ذقت فلانا وذقت ما عنده أي خبرته
And you say: I tasted so-and-so and tasted what he had, meaning I experienced him.
وكذلك ما نزل بالإنسان من مكروه فقد ذاقه
And likewise, whatever hardship befalls a person, they have tasted it.
إن الله لا يحب الذواقين والذواقات ؛ يعني السريعي النكاح السريعي الطلاق
Indeed, Allah does not love the 'dhawwāqīn' and 'dhawwāqāt'; meaning those quick to marry and quick to divorce.
والذواق: الملول
And 'al-dhawwāq' is the bored one.
ويقال: ذقت فلانا أي خبرته وبرته
And it is said: I tasted so-and-so, meaning I experienced and tested him.
واستذقت فلانا إذا خبرته فلم تحمد مخبرته
And 'istadhāqtu' a person if you tested him and did not praise his disposition.
وتذوقته أي ذقته شيئا بعد شيء
And I tasted it, meaning I tasted it little by little.
وأمر مستذاق أي مجرب معلوم
And a matter 'mustadhāq' meaning tried and known.
فأذاقها الله لباس الجوع والخوف ؛ أي ابتلاها بسوء ما خبرت من عقاب الجوع والخوف
So Allah made them taste the garment of hunger and fear; meaning He afflicted them with the evil they experienced of the punishment of hunger and fear.
وكانوا إذا خرجوا من عنده لا يتفرقون إلا عن ذواق
And they would not disperse from him except with a taste; meaning with knowledge and ادب they learned.
ويقال: ذق هذه القوس أي انزع فيها لتخبر لينها من شدتها
And it is said: Taste this bow, meaning draw it to know its flexibility from its stiffness.
فذاق فأعطته من اللين جانبا
So he tasted it, and it gave him a side of flexibility.
وذقت القوس إذا جذبت وترها لتنظر ما شدتها
And I tasted the bow when I pulled its string to see its tension.
قال: الذوق يكون بالفم وبغير الفم
He said: Taste can be with the mouth and without the mouth.
يقال أذاق فلان بعدك سروا أي صار سريا
It is said so-and-so became noble after you, meaning he became noble.
وأذاق الفرس بعدك عدوا أي صار عداء بعدك
And the horse became an enemy after you, meaning it became an enemy after you.
فذاقت وبال أمرها ؛ أي خبرت
So she tasted the consequence of her affair; meaning she experienced it.
وأذاقه الله وبال أمره
And Allah made him taste the consequence of his affair.
فذوقوا كما ذقنا غداة محجر من الغيظ، في أكبادنا، والتحوب
So taste as we tasted on the morning of Muhajjar from rage, in our livers, and distress.
وذاق الرجل عسيلة المرأة إذا أولج فيها إذاقة حتى خبر طيب جماعها
A man tasted a woman's honey-like substance when he entered her, until he knew the goodness of their intercourse.
ورجل ذواق مطلاق إذا كان كثير النكاح كثير الطلاق
And a man 'dhawwāq' and 'mitlāq' if he is much married and much divorced.
ويوم ما ذقته طعاما أي ما ذقت فيه، وذاق العذاب والمكروه ونحو ذلك، وهو مثل
And a day I did not taste food in it, meaning I did not taste in it, and he tasted torment and hardship and the like, which is a proverb.
ذق إنك أنت العزيز الكريم
Taste, indeed you are the mighty, the noble.
أن أبا سفيان لما رأى حمزة، رضي الله عنه، مقتولا قال له: ذق عقق أي ذق طعم مخالفتك لنا وتركك دينك الذي كنت عليه يا عاق قومه
When Abu Sufyan saw Hamza, may Allah be pleased with him, killed, he said to him: Taste disobedience, meaning taste the flavor of your disobedience to us and your abandonment of the religion you were upon, O disobedient one to your people.
وهذا من المجاز أن يستعمل الذوق وهو ما يتعلق بالأجسام في المعاني كقوله تعالى: ذق إنك أنت العزيز الكريم ، وقوله: فذاقوا وبال أمرهم
And this is from metaphor, using 'dhawq' which relates to bodies, for meanings, like His saying, the Almighty: Taste, indeed you are the mighty, the noble, and His saying: So they tasted the consequence of their affair.
وتذاوق القوم الشيء كذاقوه
And the people tasted the thing together, as they tasted it.
يهززن للمشي أوصالا منعمة، ... أو كاهتزاز رديني تذاوقه ... أيدي التجار فزادوا متنه لينا
They shake supple limbs for walking, ... or like the shaking of a tunic that the hands of merchants taste, increasing its softness.
والمعروف تداوله
And it is known to be circulated.
وما ذقت ذواقا أي شيئا، وهو ما يذاق من الطعام
And I did not taste 'dhawāqan', meaning anything, which is what is tasted of food.