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غيق

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the sound of a crow, specifically its cawing. It also extends metaphorically to describe a state of confusion or indecisiveness in opinion.

Derived headwords

غاقَverb
  1. 1.
    to cawboth

    The sound made by a crow.

غاقnoun
  1. 1.
    crow's cawclassical

    The sound of a crow's cawing.

تغْيِيقnoun
  1. 1.
    confusionclassical

    A state of being confused or mixed up, unable to settle on a single course of action or opinion.

تغيَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be confusedclassical

    To become mixed up in one's opinion, to be unable to remain firm on a particular matter.

Parallel reading

حكلية صوت الغرب.
The caw of the crow.
فإن نكرته نونت.
If you make it indefinite, you add 'nun'.
معاود للجوع والاملاق يغضب إن قال الغرب غاق
A habitual one of hunger and poverty, he gets angry if the crow says 'ghaq'.
أبعد كن الله من نياق
May God distance you from she-camels.
وغيق الرجل في رأيه تغييقا، إذا اختلط فلم يثبت على شئ.
And a man's opinion is confused (taghyiiqan) when it is mixed up and he does not remain firm on anything.