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دهق

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of filling, emptying forcefully, breaking, and striking. It also extends to meanings of giving generously, causing haste, and things being crowded or interlocked.

Derived headwords

دَهَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to fillboth

    To fill a cup completely.

  2. 2.
    to empty forcefullyclassical

    To empty water out with great force.

  3. 3.
    to breakboth

    To break or shatter something.

  4. 4.
    to press hardboth

    To press or squeeze something intensely.

  5. 5.
    to strikeboth

    To strike someone.

دِهَاقadjective
  1. 1.
    fullboth

    A cup that is full.

  2. 2.
    consecutiveclassical

    Cups that are filled one after another.

دِهَاقadjective
  1. 1.
    abundantboth

    Water that is plentiful or abundant.

دِهْقَانnoun
  1. 1.
    landownerclassical

    A title for a landowner or a Persian nobleman.

دَهْقnoun
  1. 1.
    stocksclassical

    Two wooden pieces used to press or squeeze the leg.

أَدْهَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to make hasteclassical

    To cause someone to hurry or make haste.

ادْهَأَقَّتْverb
  1. 1.
    to interlockclassical

    Stones that fit closely together or interlocked.

مِدْهَقnoun
  1. 1.
    crushed thingclassical

    Something that is crushed or squeezed.

  2. 2.
    pressed thingclassical

    Something that has been extracted or pressed.

Parallel reading

دهق الكأس، كجعله: ملأها
To fill a cup, like making it: to fill it.
و الماء: أفرغه إفراغا شديدا، ضد
And water: to empty it with great force, the opposite.
و لي دهقة من المال: أعطاني منه صدرا
And to me a دهقة of money: he gave me the beginning of it.
و الشيء: كسره وقطعه
And a thing: to break it and cut it.
أو غمزه شديدا
Or to squeeze it intensely.
و فلانا: ضربه
And so-and-so: to strike him.
وكأس دهاق، ككتاب: ممتلئة
And a full cup, like kitab: filled.
أو متتابعة
Or consecutive.
وملء دهاق: كثير
And abundant water: plentiful.
والدهقان، بالكسر، وبالضم: في باب النون
And al-Dihqan, with kasra, and with damma: is in the chapter of the letter Nun.
والدهق، محركة: خشبتان يغمز بهما الساق، فارسيته: أشكنجه
And al-Dahq, with haraka: two pieces of wood with which the leg is pressed, its Persian is: ashkanjah.
وأدهقه: أعجله
And to make him haste: to hasten him.
واد هقت الحجارة، كافتعلت: تلازمت ودخل بعضها في بعض
And the stones interlocked, as ifta'alat: they clung together and entered into each other.
والمدهق، على مفتعل: المكسر والمعتصر
And al-Mudhhaq, on mufta'al: the crushed and the pressed.