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صيق

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to dust, specifically fine dust or powder, often associated with the ground, roads, or animal hooves. It can also extend to the concept of being fine or powdery.

Derived headwords

الصِّيقnoun
  1. 1.
    dustboth

    Fine dust or powder, often kicked up by movement or found on the ground.

  2. 2.
    fine powderclassical

    Can refer to a very fine, powdery substance.

صِيقnoun
  1. 1.
    dustboth

    A fine dust or powder.

Parallel reading

الغبار.
Dust.
بوادي جدود قد بوكرت بصيق السنابك أعطانها
In valleys of old, their watering places were stirred up by the dust of the hooves.
كما انقض تحت الصيق عوار
As a weakling collapsed under the dust.
والجمع صيق، مثل جيفة وجيف.
And the plural is ṣīq, like jīfah and jiyaf.
يترك ترب البيد مجنون الصيق
He leaves the earth of the desert, maddened by the dust.