غوق

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns sounds, particularly the cries of birds, and by extension, the birds themselves. It also extends to the sound of animal genitalia.

Derived headwords

الغَوِيقnoun

1.
Soundboth
The sound emanating from anything.
2.
Upper eyeclassical
Refers to the upper part of the eye, though this meaning has been previously discussed.

الغَاقnoun

1.
Water birdclassical
A type of water bird.
2.
Crow's cryboth
An onomatopoeic representation of a crow's cry.
3.
Crowboth
A crow, named after its cry.

سمعت غاق غاق وغاق غاق — I heard 'ghaq ghq' and 'ghaq ghq'.

سمعت صوت الغاق — I heard the sound of the crow.

الغَاقَةnoun

1.
Water birdclassical
A type of water bird.

غَاقَverb

1.
To cry (crow)both
To make the characteristic sound of a crow.

غَاقٍadjective

1.
Like a crow's wingclassical
Describing something as being similar in appearance to a crow's wing.

ولمتي مثل جناح غاق — And my hair is like the wing of a crow.

الوَغِيْقnoun

1.
Animal's sheathclassical
The sheath of a male animal's testicles.

Parallel reading

الغويق: الصوت من كل شيء

Al-ghawīq: The sound from everything.

والغاق والغاقة: من طير الماء

And al-ghāq and al-ghāqah: are of the water birds.

وغاق: حكاية صوت الغراب

Ghaq: An imitation of the crow's sound.

يغضب إن قال الغراب: غاق أبعدكن الله من نياق

He gets angry if the crow says: 'Ghaq, may God distance you, O she-camels'.

معاود للجوع والإملاق

Returning to hunger and poverty.

إن لم تنجين من الوثاق بأربع من كذب سماق

If you do not escape from the bonds with four lies of the sumac.

عنه ولا قول الغراب غاق

From it, nor the crow's utterance 'ghaq'.

ولا الطبيبان ذوا الترياق

Nor the two physicians with the antidote.

ويقال: سمعت غاق غاق وغاق غاق

And it is said: 'I heard ghāq ghāq and ghāq ghāq'.

ثم سمي الغراب غاقا فيقال: سمعت صوت الغاق

Then the crow was named ghāq, so it is said: 'I heard the sound of the ghāq'.

وربما سمي الغراب به لصوته

And sometimes the crow is named by it (the sound) because of its cry.

ولو ترى، إذ جبتي من طاق، ... ولمتي مثل جناح غاق

And if you saw, when my tunic was from a basket, ... my hair like the wing of a crow.

إذا قلت حكاية صوت الغراب غاق غاق فكأنك قلت بعدا بعدا وفراقا فراقا

If you say the imitation of the crow's sound 'ghaq ghāq', it is as if you said 'far away, far away' and 'separation, separation'.

وإذا قلت غاق غاق فكأنك قلت البعد البعد

And if you say 'ghāq ghāq', it is as if you said 'the distance, the distance'.

فصار التنوين علم التنكير وتركه علم التعريف

So the nunation became a sign of indefiniteness, and leaving it off became a sign of definiteness.

والوغيق: صوت قنب الدابة وهو وعاء جردانه؛ عن اللحياني

And al-waghīq: the sound of the animal's sheath, which is the container of its testicles; from Al-Lihyānī.

كأنه مقلوب عن الغويق أو لغة فيه

As if it were an inversion of al-ghawīq or a dialectal variant of it.