نقق

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the sounds made by various animals, particularly frogs, chickens, and ostriches. It also extends to related concepts like the animals themselves and, metaphorically, to other sounds or actions.

Derived headwords

نَقَّverb

1.
to croak, chirpboth
To make a characteristic sound, typically associated with frogs, chickens, or ostriches.
2.
to make a soundclassical
A general term for making a sound, used for various creatures.

نَقِيْقnoun

1.
croaking soundboth
The sound made by frogs, chickens, or ostriches.
2.
sound of animalsclassical
A general term for the sound of animals, particularly frogs.

كأن نقيق الحب في حاويائه ... فحيح الأفاعي، أو نقيق العقارب — As if the croaking of the love-bugs in their nests... were the hissing of snakes, or the croaking of scorpions.

نَقْنَقَverb

1.
to croak repeatedlyboth
To make a repeated or prolonged croaking sound, often implying a return or modulation of the voice.
2.
to make a soundclassical
To produce a sound, used for frogs and chickens.

نَقْنَقَةnoun

1.
repeated croakingboth
The act or sound of repeated croaking, especially by frogs or chickens.
2.
sound of a catclassical
Sometimes used to describe the sound a cat makes.

نَقَّاقadjective

1.
croakingboth
Describing something that croaks, particularly a frog.

وضفدع نقاق — And a croaking frog.

نَقُوْقadjective

1.
croakingclassical
Describing something that croaks, particularly a frog.

نُقُوْقnoun

1.
frogsclassical
The plural of 'naqqaq' or 'naquq', referring to frogs.

إذا دنا منهن أنقاض النقق — When the frogs approach them.

نَقَقnoun

1.
frogsclassical
The plural of 'naqqaq' or 'naquq', referring to frogs.

نَقَاقnoun

1.
frogclassical
A frog, used as a descriptive epithet.

والنقاق: الضفدع — And al-nafaq: the frog.

نَقَاقَةnoun

1.
frogclassical
A female frog.

نَقْنَقَ للبيضverb

1.
to cluck for eggsboth
The sound a hen makes when laying or sitting on eggs.

والدجاجة تنقنق للبيض — And the hen clucks for the eggs.

نَقْنَقَ الهرverb

1.
cat meowedclassical
The sound a cat makes, similar to croaking.

مثل نقيق الهر — Like the meowing of a cat.

نَقْنَقَ عينهverb

1.
eye sankclassical
Describing the sinking or hollowing of an eye.

نقنقت عينه نقنقة: غارت — His eye sank: it became hollow.

نَقْنَقnoun

1.
ostrichclassical
The male ostrich.

والنقنق: الظليم — And al-naqnaq: the ostrich.

نَقَانِقnoun

1.
ostrichesclassical
Plural of 'naqnaq', referring to ostriches.

خوص ذوات أعين نقانق — Dark-eyed ones with sunken eyes.

نَقْنَقِيْقnoun

1.
stake for crucifixionclassical
A wooden stake or cross on which someone is crucified.

والنقنيق: الخشبة التي يكون عليها المصلوب — And al-naqnaq: the wood on which the crucified person is.

مُنِقَverb

1.
to make a soundclassical
To produce a sound, particularly the croaking sound of frogs.
2.
to have many possessionsclassical
To become rich or possess abundant wealth, metaphorically linked to the abundance of sounds.

ومنق؛ قال أبو عبيد: هكذا رواه أصحاب الحديث ومنق، بالكسر، قال: ولا أعرف المنق، وقال غيره: إن صحت الرواية فيكون من النقيق الصوت، يريد أصوات المواشي والأنعام تصفه بكثرة أمواله، ومنق من أنق إذا صار ذا نقيق أو دخل في النقيق. — And munq; Abu Ubaid said: This is how the hadith scholars narrated it, munq, with kasra, he said: I do not know al-munq. Others said: If the narration is correct, it would be from al-naqiq, the sound, meaning the sounds of livestock and animals, describing his abundance of wealth, and munq from anqa if he became possessed of sound or entered into sound.

نَقَّتَverb

1.
to make a soundclassical
To make a sound, similar to 'naqqa'.

ونقتت بالتاء وأنكره ابن الأعرابي وقال: نتق، بالتاء، هبط، وفي المصنف تقتقت، بتاءين، قال ابن سيده: وهو تصحيف. — And naqqatat with ta, and Ibn al-A'rabi rejected it and said: nataqa, with ta, descended, and in the al-musannaf taqtaqat, with two tas, Ibn Sidah said: it is a misspelling.

تَقْتَقَتْverb

1.
to descendclassical
To descend or go down, possibly a misspelling or variant of another root.

وفي المصنف تقتقت، بتاءين، قال ابن سيده: وهو تصحيف. — And in al-musannaf taqtaqat, with two tas, Ibn Sidah said: it is a misspelling.

Parallel reading

نق الظليم والدجاجة والحجلة والرخمة والضفادع والعقرب تنق نقيقا ونقنق: صوت؛

The ostrich, chicken, partridge, vulture, frogs, and scorpion make a sound, naqqa, naqiqan, and naqnaga: a sound;

قال جرير يصف الخنزير والحب في حاويائه: كأن نقيق الحب في حاويائه ... فحيح الأفاعي، أو نقيق العقارب

Jarir said, describing the pig and the love-bug in its nest: As if the croaking of the love-bug in its nest... were the hissing of snakes, or the croaking of scorpions.

والدجاجة تنقنق للبيض ولا تنق لأنها ترجع في صوتها،

And the hen clucks for the eggs and does not naqqa because she modulates her voice,

ومن قول يزيد بن الحكم: ضفادعها غرقى لهن نقيق

And from the saying of Yazid bin al-Hakam: Its drowned frogs have a croaking sound.

وقيل: النقيق والنقنقة من أصوات الضفادع يفصل بينهما المد والترجيع،

And it is said: Al-naqiq and al-naqnaga are from the sounds of frogs, distinguished by elongation and modulation of the voice.

والدجاجة تنقنق للبيض، وكذلك النعامة.

And the hen clucks for the eggs, and so does the ostrich.

ونق الضفدع ونقنق: كذلك، وقيل هو صوت يفصل بينه مد وترجيع.

And the frog croaks and naqnaga: likewise, and it is said to be a sound distinguished by elongation and modulation.

وضفدع نقاق ونقوق، وجمع النقوق نقق؛

And a frog is naqqaq and naquq, and the plural of al-nuquq is nuqquq;

إذا دنا منهن أنقاض النقق

When the frogs approach them.

والنقاق: الضفدع، صفة غالبة؛

And al-nafaq: the frog, a dominant description;

تقول العرب: أروى من النقاق أي الضفدع.

The Arabs say: More eloquent than al-nafaq, meaning the frog.

والنقاقة: الضفدعة؛

And al-nafaqah: the female frog;

والنقنقة: صوتها إذا ضوعف وربما قيل ذلك للهر أيضا؛

And al-naqnaga: its sound when amplified, and this might also be said for a cat;

أطعمت راعي من اليهير، ... فظل يبكي حبجا بشر، خلف استه مثل نقيق الهر

I fed the shepherd of al-Yahair, ... so he kept crying miserably, behind his rear like the meowing of a cat.

وفي رجز مسيلمة: يا ضفدع نقي كم تنقين

And in the verse of Musaylimah: O frog, croak, how you croak.

النقيق صوت الضفدع، وإذا رجع صوته قيل نقنق.

Al-naqiq is the sound of the frog, and when its voice returns, it is called naqnaga.

وفي حديث أم زرع: ودايس ومنق ؛

And in the hadith of Umm Zar': Wadis and munq;

والنقنق: الظليم، والجمع النقانق.

And al-naqnaq: the ostrich, and the plural is al-naqaniq.

والنقنيق: الخشبة التي يكون عليها المصلوب.

And al-naqnaq: the wood on which the crucified person is.

نقنقت عينه نقنقة: غارت؛

His eye sank, naqnaga: it became hollow;

خوص ذوات أعين نقانق، ... خصت بها مجهولة السمالق

Dark-eyed ones with sunken eyes, ... singled out by an unknown one from al-Samaliq.

ونقتت بالتاء وأنكره ابن الأعرابي وقال: نتق، بالتاء، هبط، وفي المصنف تقتقت، بتاءين، قال ابن سيده: وهو تصحيف.

And naqqatat with ta, and Ibn al-A'rabi rejected it and said: nataqa, with ta, descended, and in the al-musannaf taqtaqat, with two tas, Ibn Sidah said: it is a misspelling.