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صءى

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the sounds made by young animals, particularly chicks, and by extension, other creatures like pigs, elephants, mice, gerbils, and scorpions. It also extends to metaphorical meanings related to bringing forth or possessing both animate and inanimate things.

Derived headwords

الصَّئِيnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of a chickboth

    The cry or sound made by a chick or similar young bird.

صَأَىverb
  1. 1.
    to cry outboth

    To make a sound or cry, as a chick, pig, elephant, mouse, gerbil, or scorpion.

صَئِيًاnoun
  1. 1.
    crying outboth

    The act of crying out or making a sound, used as the masdar of صَأَى.

يَصْأَىverb
  1. 1.
    cries outboth

    Present tense of the verb صَأَى, indicating the action of crying out.

مَصْأَىnoun
  1. 1.
    what cries outclassical

    Literally 'that which cries out', used in the idiom to refer to speaking or animate things.

Parallel reading

صوت الفرخ ونحوه.
The sound of a chick and the like.
صأى الفرخ يصأى صئيا، مثل صعى يصعى صعيا، إذا صاح.
The chick cried out, crying out, like the raven cried out, crying out, when it made a sound.
وكذلك الخنزير، والفيل، والفأر، واليربوع.
And likewise the pig, the elephant, the mouse, and the gerbil.
مالى إذا أنزعها صأيت * أكبر غيرني أم بيت
What is wrong with me that when I bring them forth, I cry out? Is it that I have grown older and changed, or is it a house?
جاء بماصأى وصمت
He brought what cries out and what is silent.
إذا جاء بالمال الكثير، أي بالناطق والصامت.
When he brought much wealth, meaning the speaking and the silent.
ويقال أيضا: جاء بما صاء وصمت، وهو مقلوب من صأى.
It is also said: He brought what cried out and what was silent, and it is an inversion of صَأَى.
والعقرب أيضا تصئي.
And the scorpion also cries out.
تلدغ العقرب وتصئى
The scorpion stings and cries out.