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صوغ

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of something settling, sinking, or becoming absorbed into something else. It extends to the idea of something being formed or molded, particularly in a divine context.

Derived headwords

صَاغَverb
  1. 1.
    to settleboth

    Water settles or sinks into the ground.

  2. 2.
    to be absorbedclassical

    Food, like fat (أدم), is absorbed into something else.

  3. 3.
    to formboth

    God Almighty forms or shapes a person.

صَوْغًاnoun
  1. 1.
    settlingboth

    The act of water settling or sinking into the ground.

  2. 2.
    absorptionclassical

    The act of something, like fat, being absorbed into food.

  3. 3.
    formationboth

    The act of being formed or shaped, especially by God.

Parallel reading

صاغ الماء يصوغ صوغا: رسب في الأرض
Water settles, it settles, settling: it sank into the ground.
وكذلك صاغ الأدم في الطعام: إذا رسب فيه
And likewise, fat settled in the food: if it sank into it.
قاله ابن شميل
Ibn Shumayl said this.
ومن المجاز: صاغ الله تعالى فلانا
And metaphorically: God Almighty formed so-and-so.