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سغغ

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of moving something from its place, often with a sense of pushing, wiggling, or inserting. It also extends to meanings of enriching something with fat or oil, and metaphorically to becoming deeply involved in something or even dying.

Derived headwords

سَغْسَغَverb
  1. 1.
    to moveclassical

    To move something from its place, like a stake or similar object.

  2. 2.
    to push intoclassical

    To push something into the ground or roll it within it.

  3. 3.
    to enrich with fatclassical

    To make food abundant with fat or oil.

  4. 4.
    to anoint the headclassical

    To anoint the head with oil or fat, or to apply it with one's hands and press it in.

سغسغ الشيء — moved the thing
سغسغه في التراب — pushed it into the dirt
سغسغ الطعام — made the food rich with fat
سغسغها بالسين والغين، أي: رواها بالدهن والسمن — he enriched it with fat and ghee
سغسغ رأسه — he anointed his head with oil
سغسغ الدهن في رأسه — he worked the oil into his hair
سَغْسَغَةnoun
  1. 1.
    movementclassical

    The act of moving something from its place.

  2. 2.
    anointing the headclassical

    The act of anointing the head with oil or fat.

  3. 3.
    agitationclassical

    Disturbance or commotion.

سغسغة: حركه من موضعه — movement: moving it from its place
سغسغة: رواه دهنا — anointing the head: saturating it with oil
السغسغة: الاضطراب — agitation: disturbance
تَسَغْسَغَverb
  1. 1.
    to moveclassical

    A tooth becoming loose or moving in its socket.

  2. 2.
    to penetrateclassical

    To go deep into something, like the earth or through trees.

  3. 3.
    to extricate oneselfclassical

    To get out of or extricate oneself from a difficult situation.

تسغسغت ثنيته: إذا تحركت — his tooth became loose: if it moved
تسغسغ في الأرض: أوغل فيها — he went deep into the earth
تسغسغ إليه في الشجر حتى دخل إليه، أي: تخلل — he penetrated through the trees until he entered, meaning: he threaded his way through
تسغسغ من الأمر: تخلص منه — he extricated himself from the matter: he got free from it
السَّغْسَاغnoun
  1. 1.
    anointing the headclassical

    The act of saturating the head with oil or fat.

السغسغ، بالكسر: السغسغة، وهو إرواء الرأس بالدهن — as-saghsāgh, with kasra: as-saghsagha, which is saturating the head with oil.

Parallel reading

سغسغ الشيء
he moved the thing
كالوتد ونحوه
like a stake or similar object
سغسغه في التراب: دسه فيه، كما في الصحاح أو دحرجه فيه
he pushed it into the dirt: he thrust it into it, as in Al-Sahah, or rolled it in it
سغسغ الطعام: إذا أوسعه دسما
he made the food rich: if he made it abundant with fat
وصنع ثريدة ثم سغسغها بالسين والغين، أي: رواها بالدهن والسمن
and he made a thareed (a dish of bread and broth) and then enriched it with the sin and ghayn, meaning: he saturated it with fat and ghee
سغسغ رأسه سغسغة: رواه دهنا
he anointed his head with saghsagha: he saturated it with oil
وضع عليه الدهن بكفيه، وعصره ليتشرب
he placed oil on it with his palms, and squeezed it so it would absorb
سغسغ الدهن في رأسه: أدخله تحت شعره
he worked the oil into his head: he inserted it under his hair
وأصل سغسغته! سغغته، بثلاث غينات، إلا أنهم أبدلوا من الغين الوسطى سينا، فرقا بين فعلل وفعل
And the origin of his saghsagha is saghghatahu, with three ghayns, except that they replaced the middle ghayn with a sin, to distinguish between fa'lal and fa'ala
تسغسغت ثنيته: إذا تحركت
his tooth became loose: if it moved
تسغسغ في الأرض: أوغل فيها
he went deep into the earth: he penetrated deeply into it
تسغسغ إليه في الشجر حتى دخل إليه، أي: تخلل
he penetrated through the trees until he entered, meaning: he threaded his way through
السغسغة: الاضطراب
as-saghsagha: disturbance
السغساغ، بالكسر: السغسغة، وهو إرواء الرأس بالدهن
as-saghsāgh, with kasra: as-saghsagha, which is saturating the head with oil
تسغسغ من الأمر: تخلص منه
he extricated himself from the matter: he got free from it
والتسغسغ: كناية عن الموت
And as-tasghasugh: is a metaphor for death