Quranic root
عوق
ʿ · w · q
The root centers on hindering, preventing, or turning someone or something away from an intended course, especially a course of good.
The core obstruction sense extends to agents who hinder, circumstances that impede achievement, states of being hindered, and several specialized or figurative usages. The evidence also records independent nominal usages involving hunger, sounds, a star, and an idol.
- Mufradāt · row 1025
- Lane · entry 5304
- Lane · entry 5306
- Lane · entry 5320
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
مُعَوِّق
muʿawwiq
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
One who hinders, discourages, or turns people away from the good they seek; a hindering or obstructing agent.
The singular citation form is مُعَوِّق, the active participle of Form II عَوَّقَ; the Quranic occurrence is plural masculine and describes people who hold others back from advancing in the way of good.
- Mufradāt · row 1025
- Lane · entry 5304
Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:18word 4
“those who hinder”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 33:18ٱلْمُعَوِّقِينَthose who hinder
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 21 Classical meanings
عاقَ
In the idiom مَا عَاقَتْ عِنْدَ زَوْجِهَا وَلَا لَاقَتْ: she did not cleave to her husband's heart; by another interpretation, she did not hinder him from separating from her or marrying another.
An idiomatic expression with variant reported interpretations, including that she was not happy with, favored by, or beloved by her husband.
- Lane · entry 5304
أَعَاقَ
To disable someone from carrying on a journey, as when a beast or travelling provisions fail; to put someone in difficulty so that the intended task cannot be completed.
Used of an impediment caused by failure of a means of travel or provision; the result is inability to accomplish the intended undertaking.
- Lane · entry 5306
تَعَوَّقَ
To become hindered, held back, turned aside, or retarded by being occupied with something else.
An intransitive self-directed construction, also explained as becoming impeded from an affair.
- Lane · entry 5307
اِعْتَاقَ
To be detained or retained with someone or at someone's abode; to be bound.
A reported Classical usage distinct from the ordinary causative sense of hindering another person.
- Lane · entry 5308
عَاقْ عَاقْ
The cry of a crow, or an imitation of that cry.
An imitative expression; the orthographic variant عَاقِ عَاقِ is also reported.
- Lane · entry 5309
عَوْقٌ
A place where a valley bends or inclines to the right or left.
A geographical or topographical noun, unrelated to the agentive obstruction sense except in form.
- Lane · entry 5310
عَوْقٌ
Time or a period of time.
Attested in the expression لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ آخِرَ عَوْقٍ, meaning that something will not continue until the end of time.
- Lane · entry 5310
عُوقٌ
A man in whom or with whom there is no good; a worthless or niggardly man.
A personal epithet, including the reported poetic use for a niggardly person.
- Lane · entry 5311
عَوَقٌ
Hunger.
A nominal usage equated with عَوْلَقٌ in the cited lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 5312
عَوِقٌ
Hungry; very hungry.
Attested adjectivally in the collocation رَجُلٌ عَوِقٌ لَوِقٌ; the example does not establish a restriction beyond the state of hunger.
- Lane · entry 5313
عُوَقٌ
A coward or cowardly person.
This sense is specifically reported as belonging to the dialect of Hudhayl.
- Lane · entry 5314
عُوَقٌ
One whom affairs continually hinder or prevent from accomplishing the object of his need.
Describes a person repeatedly thwarted by circumstances rather than necessarily one who obstructs others.
- Lane · entry 5314
عُوَقٌ
One who accomplishes a thing when he sets his mind on it.
A contrary sense reported in the same lexical discussion and attributed to a named authority; it is retained separately from the obstruction senses.
- Lane · entry 5314
عُوَاقٌ
A sound issuing from the belly of a beast, horse, or similar animal while it is moving; by another report, a sound made by anything.
A sound term, with the animal-specific interpretation and a broader alternative both reported.
- Lane · entry 5318
عَوِيقٌ
The sound of a horse's penile sheath.
A specialized anatomical and zoological usage.
- Lane · entry 5319
عَائِقَةٌ
An accident or casualty of time or fortune that diverts, hinders, or occupies someone.
The plural عَوَائِقُ الدَّهْر denotes circumstances of time that impede a person by engrossing or employing them.
- Lane · entry 5320
عَيِّقٌ
Very niggardly or miserly.
Reported in an imitative collocation; another report instead equates the word with the hinderer epithet عُوَقٌ.
- Lane · entry 5322
العَيُّوقُ
The bright star Capella, regarded in traditional description as impeding الدَّبَرَان from meeting the Pleiades.
A fixed astronomical name; the evidence discusses alternative analyses of its medial consonant and its traditional stellar position.
- Lane · entry 5323
مُعْوِقٌ
One disappointed of attaining an object because a beast or travelling provisions have failed; one who has met with failure.
Used for the resulting state of a person whose means of travel or provision have failed; equated with مُخْفِقٌ.
- Lane · entry 5324
مُعْوِقٌ
Hungry.
A separately reported meaning of this headword, distinct from the sense of being disappointed by failed means.
- Lane · entry 5324
يَعُوقُ
The name of an idol associated with the people of Noah; other reports associate it with Kinānah or Murād.
A proper name in religious-historical usage, with variant accounts of the idol's original identity and tribal association.
- Lane · entry 5325
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The عُوَقٌ entry reports both obstruction-related senses and a contrary sense of resolute accomplishment; these are retained as separately attributed Classical meanings.
The supplied packet contains no Maqāyīs entry, so the root-level orientation is based on the directly matched Quran-focused and Lane evidence.