Quranic root
صغو
ṣ · gh · w
The root centers on turning or inclining toward something.
The semantic field extends from physical or directional inclination to inward attachment, directed hearing, and lexicalized expressions involving a tilted vessel and reduced contents or due.
- Mufradāt · row 835
- Lane · entry 26030
- Lane · entry 26031
- Lane · entry 26039
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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.
صَغَا
ṣaghā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To incline toward something or be drawn toward it.
In the Quranic occurrences, the subject is the heart: hearts incline toward an object, influence, or matter. This Quranic sense concerns inward directional inclination; physical leaning and the specialized listening, celestial, and idiomatic uses are treated separately below.
- Lane · entry 26030
- Mufradāt · row 835
Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:113word 1
“And so that incline”
Quran 66:4word 6
“(are) inclined”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 18 Classical meanings
صَغَا / صَغِيَ
To lean or incline physically; to lean to one side or bend or bow over one's bow; also, to have an inclination of the jaw or one lip.
Used of a person or thing for bodily inclination; the jaw or lip application is an anatomical specialization.
- Lane · entry 26030
صَغَى
To incline one's ear, give ear, hearken, or listen.
A directed-hearing use, especially with an ear or hearing as the part inclined.
- Lane · entry 26030
- Mufradāt · row 835
صَغَا
Of the stars or the sun, to incline toward setting.
A conventional description of celestial bodies approaching their setting.
- Lane · entry 26030
صَغِيَ
To have one's love or affection attached to people outside the relevant party or group.
A social or partisan use describing where a person's attachment lies.
- Lane · entry 26030
صَغًا
Inclination; a disposition or alignment toward something.
Used as a verbal noun and also as a simple substantive.
- Lane · entry 26032
صَغْوٌ
In the expression ابن صَغْوِكَ, a chosen or specially favored friend or companion.
A fixed or idiomatic expression for a special associate.
- Lane · entry 26033
صِغْوٌ
The interior of a ladle; the side of a well; or the folded or turned-over part of the sides of a bucket.
A concrete noun for an interior, side, or folded portion of a hollow implement or structure; its plural in these uses is أَصْغَاءٌ.
- Lane · entry 26034
أَصْغَى
To incline or turn a vessel onto its side so that its contents collect together.
Takes a vessel as its object and describes deliberate tilting rather than simple inward inclination.
- Lane · entry 26031
أَصْغَى
To diminish, impair, or defraud someone of a portion of his right or due.
Used in the idiom أَصْغَى حَقَّهُ or with a thing whose proper portion is reduced.
- Lane · entry 26031
أَصْغَى
To detract from a person's reputation, speak evil of him, or slander him.
A figurative or tropical use associated with the expression أَصْغَى إِنَاءَهُ.
- Lane · entry 26031
أُصْغِيَ
To perish or die.
An idiomatic passive construction: أُصْغِيَ إِنَاءُ فُلَانٍ.
- Lane · entry 26031
أَصْغَى
To incline the head or ear toward someone; to give ear, hearken, or listen.
The verb may occur with the head or hearing as object, or alone with the meaning listen; it is also used of an animal inclining its head as if listening.
- Lane · entry 26031
صَاغٍ / صَاغِيَةٌ
Those who incline toward a person and come to him seeking what he has; by extension, his family, guests, companions, or relations.
صَاغِيَةٌ can function as a collective expression for a person's dependents or associates.
- Lane · entry 26036
الصَّوَاغِي
The stars that have inclined toward setting.
A plural derived form used specifically of stars in their settingward inclination.
- Lane · entry 26036
أَصْغَى / صَغْوَاءُ
Having something inclined: of a person's jaw or lip, a bird's beak or mandible, or the sun as it inclines toward setting.
An adjectival use; صَغْوَاءُ is the feminine form and may intensify the description in the bird application.
- Lane · entry 26037
مَصْغًى
A place or direction toward which one inclines; figuratively, the person or destination to which one turns for benefit.
A noun of place or destination, including the proverbial sense of knowing where or to whom to turn.
- Lane · entry 26038
مُصْغًى
Inclined.
A passive-participial or adjectival use without the vessel idiom.
- Lane · entry 26039
مُصْغًى
Having one's due or share reduced; being abridged or defrauded of one's right; by euphemism, doomed or perished.
In the expression فُلَانٌ مُصْغًى إِنَاؤُهُ, the tilted-vessel image signifies deficiency in what one receives and may extend figuratively to destruction.
- Lane · entry 26039
- Mufradāt · row 835
Cautions
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No Maqayis entry was supplied; the root-level orientation is therefore based on the supplied Mufradat and Lane evidence.