الشغل

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of being occupied, busy, or engaged with something, often to the exclusion of other activities. It encompasses the state of being busy, the act of occupying someone, and the things that cause this occupation. It also extends to related concepts like a threshing floor or a pile of grain.

Derived headwords

الشُغْلnoun

1.
work, occupationboth
The state of being busy or occupied with an activity; an engagement or task.
2.
busynessboth
The condition of being occupied or engaged, often implying a lack of free time.

الشُغْلnoun

1.
opposite of free timeboth
The antonym of being free or unoccupied; the state of having no leisure.

أشغالnoun

1.
occupations, tasksboth
Plural of 'shughl', referring to various tasks, jobs, or engagements.

شُغُولnoun

1.
occupations, concernsboth
A plural form of 'shughl', often implying matters that occupy one's attention or time.

شَغَلَverb

1.
to occupy, engageboth
To keep someone busy or engaged with a task or activity; to fill a space or time.
2.
to preoccupyboth
To fill someone's mind or attention, often to the exclusion of other thoughts.

شُغِلاnoun

1.
busyness, occupationboth
A masdar (verbal noun) indicating the state of being occupied or busy.

أشْغَلَverb

1.
to occupy, engage (intensive)both
An intensive form of 'shaghala', meaning to greatly occupy or engage someone.

اشْتَغَلَverb

1.
to be occupied, busyboth
To be engaged in work or an activity; to be busy with something.
2.
to work on, deal withboth
To actively engage with or work on a particular matter or task.

شَاغِلnoun

1.
occupier, engrosserboth
One who occupies or engages someone; that which preoccupies the mind.

شُغْل شَاغِلadjective

1.
highly preoccupyingboth
An emphatic expression indicating something that is extremely engrossing or occupying.

شُغْلَةnoun

1.
threshing floorclassical
A place where grain is threshed; a barn floor.
2.
stack of grainclassical
A pile or heap of grain, especially after threshing.
3.
matter, affairboth
A concern, affair, or matter of business.

أشْغُولَةnoun

1.
occupation, engagementboth
A noun derived from the root, referring to an occupation or something that occupies one.

Parallel reading

الشغل، بالضم وبضمتين، وبالفتح وبفتحتين: ضد الفراغ

Al-shughl, with damma and two dammas, and with fatha and two fathas: the opposite of free time.

ج: أشغال وشغول

Plural: ashghal and shughool.

وشغله، كمنعه، شغلا، ويضم

And shaghala-hu, like mana'a-hu, shaghlan, and it is also said with damma.

وأشغله لغة جيدة، أو قليلة أو رديئة

And ashghala-hu is a good, or rare, or weak dialectal form.

واشتغل به

And ishtaghala bihi (he was occupied with it).

ويقال منه: ما أشغله

And from it is said: Ma ashghala-hu (How occupying it is!).

وهو شغل، ككتف، ومشتغل

And it is shughl, like katif, and mushtaghil.

وشغل شاغل: مبالغة

And shughl shaghil: an intensification.

وكمرحلة: ما يشغلك

And like marhala: ma yashghaluka (that which occupies you).

والشغلة: البيدر، والكدس، ج: شغل

And al-shughlah: the threshing floor, and the stack, plural: shughl.

وخطب (علي) على شغلة

And he proposed (to Ali) concerning a matter.

وأشغولة: أفعولة من الشغل

And ashghoolah: an 'af'oolah form from the root 'shughl'.