See also: راع

Arabic

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Root
ز ي غ (z y ḡ)
1 term

Pronunciation

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Verb

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زَاغَ (zāḡa) I (non-past يَزِيغُ (yazīḡu), verbal noun زَيْغ (zayḡ) or زَيَغَان (zayaḡān))

  1. to deviate, to turn away, to swerve
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:10:
      إِذْ جَاؤُوكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَإِذْ زَاغَتْ الأَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتْ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللّٰهِ الظُّنُونَا
      ʔiḏ jāʔūkum min fawqikum wamin ʔasfala minkum waʔiḏ zāḡat al-ʔabṣāru wabalaḡat al-qulūbu l-ḥanājira wataẓunnūna bi-l-lāhi ẓ-ẓunūnā
      [Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when the gazes shifted, and the hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah assumptions.

Conjugation

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Ottoman Turkish

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زاغ

Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian زاغ (zâğ, rook).

Noun

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زاغ (zağ)

  1. carrion crow, the common European black crow (Corvus corone)
  2. rook, a common European bird of the crow family (Corvus frugilegus)

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Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Iranian, from Proto-Iranian (compare Sogdian [script needed] (zʾγ /⁠zāγ⁠/, crow), Northern Kurdish zax (crow), Parthian [script needed] (zxs- /⁠zaxs-⁠/, to sound)).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? zāğ
Dari reading? zāğ
Iranian reading? zâğ
Tajik reading? zoġ

Noun

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Dari زاغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik зоғ

زاغ (zâğ)

  1. rook (bird)