عزق

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to difficult, harsh, or stubborn qualities in people and actions. It also extends to agricultural tools for breaking ground and a specific type of unripe fruit.

Derived headwords

عَزِقَverb

1.
to be harshclassical
To possess qualities of harshness, stubbornness, and stinginess in disposition.

عَزِقٌadjective

1.
harshclassical
Describing a person who is harsh, stingy, and difficult in disposition.
2.
bad-temperedclassical
Having bad morals or disposition.

ورجل عزق ومتعزق وعزوق: فيه شدة وبخل وعسر في خلقه، من ذلك. — And a harsh, stubborn, and difficult man: possessing severity, stinginess, and difficulty in his disposition, from this.

والعزق: السيئو الأخلاق، واحدهم عزق. — And the harsh ones: those of bad morals, their singular is 'azq.

مُتَعَزِّقٌadjective

1.
harshclassical
Possessing severity, stinginess, and difficulty in disposition.

عَزُوقٌadjective

1.
harshclassical
Possessing severity, stinginess, and difficulty in disposition.
2.
unripe fruitclassical
Referring to the immature fruit of the pistachio tree, which lacks a developed kernel.

والعزوق والعزوق، كله: حمل الفستق في السنة دون لب لا ينعقد لبه وهو دباغ، وعزوقته تقبضه؛ وأنشد: ما تصنع العنز بذي عزوق، ... يثيبه العزوق في جلدها وذلك لأنه يدبغ جلدها بالعزوق. — And 'azūq and 'azūq, all of it: the pistachio fruit in a year without a kernel, its kernel not solidifying, and it is a tanning agent; and its 'azūq makes it contract; and he recited: What does the goat do with that which has 'azūq, ... the 'azūq causes it to be tanned in its skin, because it tans its skin with the 'azūq.

عَزَقَverb

1.
to tillboth
To till or break up the ground.
2.
to drainclassical
To drain water from land.
3.
to cut downclassical
To cut down or destroy.
4.
to stick toclassical
To adhere or stick to someone.

وعزق الأرض يعزقها عزقا: شقها وكربها، ولا يقال ذلك في غير الأرض. — And he tilled the land, tilling it 'azqan: he split it and cultivated it, and this is not said of anything other than land.

سأله رجل فقال تكاريت من فلان أرضا فعزقتها أي أخرجت الماء منها. — A man asked him, saying: I rented land from so-and-so and drained it, meaning I removed the water from it.

وفي الحديث لا تعزقوا أي لا تقطعوا. — And in the hadith: 'Do not 'azqū', meaning do not cut down.

عَزْقٌnoun

1.
tillingboth
The act of tilling or breaking up the ground.

مِعْزَقَةٌnoun

1.
tilling toolboth
An implement used for tilling or digging the ground, such as a hoe or mattock.
2.
mattockclassical
A tool for digging, larger than a hoe, with a curved blade.

والمعزقة والمعزق: المر من حديد ونحوه مما يحفر به، وجمعه المعازق؛ قال ذو الرمة: نثير بها نفع الكلاب، وأنتم ... تثيرون قيعان القرى بالمعازق — And the 'mi'zaqah and 'mi'zaq: the iron implement and the like, with which one digs, and its plural is 'ma'āziq'; Dhu al-Rummah said: We stir up with it the dung of dogs, and you... stir up the plains of villages with the 'ma'āziq.

قال ابن بري: المعزقة ما تعزق به الأرض، فأسا كانت أو مسحاة أو شكة؛ قال: وهي البيلة المعقفة، وقال بعضهم: هي الفؤوس واحدتها معزقة، قال: وهي فأس لرأسها طرفان؛ — Ibn Barrī said: The 'mi'zaqah is what you till the land with, whether it is an axe, a spade, or a hoe; he said: It is the curved hoe, and some said: It is the axes, their singular is 'mi'zaqah', he said: It is an axe with two ends to its head.

مِعْزَقٌnoun

1.
tilling toolboth
An implement used for tilling or digging the ground.
2.
mattockclassical
A tool for digging, larger than a hoe, with a curved blade.

مَعْزُوقَةٌadjective

1.
tilledboth
Describing land that has been tilled or dug.

وأرض معزوقة إذا شققتها بفأس أو غيره، ويقال لتلك الأداة التي تشق بها الأرض معزقة ومعزق وهي كالقدوم وأكبر منها؛ — And a 'ma'zūqah land if you split it with an axe or other tool, and that tool with which the land is split is called 'mi'zaqah' and 'mi'zaq', and it is like a pickaxe and larger than it.

أَعْزَقَverb

1.
to work with a mattockclassical
To work with a tilling implement like a mattock.

وأعزق إذا عمل بالمعزقة، وهي المر الذي يكون مع الحفارين؛ وأنشد المفضل: يا كف ذوقي نزوان المعزقه — And he 'a'zaqa if he worked with the 'mi'zaqah', which is the implement that is with the diggers; and Al-Mufaḍḍal recited: O hand, taste the movements of the 'mi'zaqah'.

عَزَقَ بِهِverb

1.
to stick toclassical
To adhere or stick firmly to someone.

وعسق به وعزق به إذا لصق به. — And 'asaqa with him and 'azaqa with him if he stuck to him.

عَزْقٌnoun

1.
defeatclassical
The act of routing and killing a group of people.

وعزقت القوم تعزيقا إذا هزمتهم وقتلتهم. — And he 'azaqa a people 'azqan if he defeated and killed them.

عَزِيقٌnoun

1.
low groundclassical
A low-lying area of land, a term used in Yemen.

والعزيق: مطمئن من الأرض، يمانية. — And 'azīq: a low place in the land, Yemeni.

Parallel reading

العزق: علاج في عسر.

Al-'azq: a remedy in difficulty.

ورجل عزق ومتعزق وعزوق: فيه شدة وبخل وعسر في خلقه، من ذلك.

And a harsh, stubborn, and difficult man: possessing severity, stinginess, and difficulty in his disposition, from this.

والعزق: السيئو الأخلاق، واحدهم عزق.

And the harsh ones: those of bad morals, their singular is 'azq.

ويقال: هو عزق نزق زعق زنق.

And it is said: He is harsh, quick-tempered, loud, and mean.

وعزق الأرض يعزقها عزقا: شقها وكربها، ولا يقال ذلك في غير الأرض.

And he tilled the land, tilling it 'azqan: he split it and cultivated it, and this is not said of anything other than land.

والمعزقة والمعزق: المر من حديد ونحوه مما يحفر به، وجمعه المعازق؛

And the 'mi'zaqah and 'mi'zaq: the iron implement and the like, with which one digs, and its plural is 'ma'āziq';

نثير بها نفع الكلاب، وأنتم ... تثيرون قيعان القرى بالمعازق

We stir up with it the dung of dogs, and you... stir up the plains of villages with the 'ma'āziq'

وأرض معزوقة إذا شققتها بفأس أو غيره،

And a 'ma'zūqah land if you split it with an axe or other tool,

ويقال لتلك الأداة التي تشق بها الأرض معزقة ومعزق وهي كالقدوم وأكبر منها؛

And that tool with which the land is split is called 'mi'zaqah' and 'mi'zaq', and it is like a pickaxe and larger than it;

المعزقة ما تعزق به الأرض، فأسا كانت أو مسحاة أو شكة؛

The 'mi'zaqah is what you till the land with, whether it is an axe, a spade, or a hoe;

وهي البيلة المعقفة،

It is the curved hoe,

وقال بعضهم: هي الفؤوس واحدتها معزقة، قال: وهي فأس لرأسها طرفان؛

And some said: It is the axes, their singular is 'mi'zaqah', he said: It is an axe with two ends to its head;

وأعزق إذا عمل بالمعزقة، وهي المر الذي يكون مع الحفارين؛

And he 'a'zaqa if he worked with the 'mi'zaqah', which is the implement that is with the diggers;

يا كف ذوقي نزوان المعزقه

O hand, taste the movements of the 'mi'zaqah'

سأله رجل فقال تكاريت من فلان أرضا فعزقتها أي أخرجت الماء منها.

A man asked him, saying: I rented land from so-and-so and drained it, meaning I removed the water from it.

وفي الحديث لا تعزقوا أي لا تقطعوا.

And in the hadith: 'Do not 'azqū', meaning do not cut down.

وعسق به وعزق به إذا لصق به.

And 'asaqa with him and 'azaqa with him if he stuck to him.

والعزوق والعزوق، كله: حمل الفستق في السنة دون لب لا ينعقد لبه وهو دباغ، وعزوقته تقبضه؛

And 'azūq and 'azūq, all of it: the pistachio fruit in a year without a kernel, its kernel not solidifying, and it is a tanning agent; and its 'azūq makes it contract;

ما تصنع العنز بذي عزوق، ... يثيبه العزوق في جلدها وذلك لأنه يدبغ جلدها بالعزوق.

What does the goat do with that which has 'azūq, ... the 'azūq causes it to be tanned in its skin, because it tans its skin with the 'azūq.

ابن الأعرابي: العزوق الفستق، وقيل: العزوق حمل شجر بشع الطعم.

Ibn Al-A'rābī: Al-'azūq is the pistachio, and it is said: Al-'azūq is the fruit of a tree with a bad taste.

وعزقت القوم تعزيقا إذا هزمتهم وقتلتهم.

And he 'azaqa a people 'azqan if he defeated and killed them.

والعزيق: مطمئن من الأرض، يمانية.

And 'azīq: a low place in the land, Yemeni.