طغر

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to pushing or shoving, with a secondary meaning referring to a specific type of bird. It also encompasses a borrowed term for a royal seal or insignia.

Derived headwords

طَغَرَ عَلَيْهِمْverb

1.
to push againstboth
To push or shove someone, often with force.

دَغَرَverb

1.
to pushboth
To push or shove someone.

الطَّغْرُnoun

1.
birdclassical
A type of bird.

طُغْرَانٌnoun

1.
birdsclassical
Plural of طغر (bird).

طُغْرَىnoun

1.
royal sealclassical
A foreign word adopted by Arabs, referring to the mark written with a thick pen on the margin of royal decrees, serving as a substitute for the Sultan's authority.

Parallel reading

طغر عليهم، كمنع

He pushed against them, like (the verb) mana'a.

هو لغة في (دغر)

It is a dialectal variant of (the verb) dağara.

يقال: طغره ودغره، إذا دفعه

It is said: taġrahu and daġara-hu, if he pushed him.

وطغر عليهم ودغر بمعنى واحد

And taġra 'alayhi and daġara meant one and the same thing.

وقيل: الطغر، كصرد: طائر

And it was said: Al-ṭuġr, like ṣurad, is a bird.

ج: طغران، بالكسر

Plural: ṭuġrān, with kasra.

وبقي عليه: طغرى، بالضم مقصورا: كلمة أعجمية استعملتها العرب

And remaining is: ṭuġrā, with damma and shortened: a foreign word used by the Arabs.

ويعنون بها العلامة التي تكتب بالقلم الغليظ في طرة الأوامر السلطانية

And they mean by it the mark written with a thick pen on the margin of the sultan's orders.

تقوم مقام السلطان

It stands in place of the Sultan.

كما نقله شيخنا عن الصلاح الصفدي

As our shaykh transmitted from Al-Ṣalāḥ Al-Ṣafadī.

وأطال بسطه في شرح لامية العجم لما ترجم ناظمها الطغرائي

And he elaborated on it in the explanation of the Lāmiyyat al-ʿAjam when its poet, Al-Ṭughrāʾī, was translated.

وأصلها طورغاي، وهي كلمة تترية استعملها الروم والفرس

And its origin is Tūrghāy, which is a Turkic word used by the Romans and Persians.