Quranic root
سحق
s · ḥ · q
The root has two principal orientations: distance or remoteness, and forceful attrition that reduces something toward wearing out or disintegration.
The attrition sense extends to pounding, pulverizing, effacing, wearing out, drying up, and wasting; the distance sense extends to remoteness and height beyond reach.
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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.
سَحِيقٌ
saḥīqun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Distant; remote.
Used adjectivally; in the attested Quranic occurrence it describes a remote place.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:31word 21
“far off”
سُحْقٌ
suḥqun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Remoteness or alienation; in the fixed imprecation, “away with” or “may he be cast far away.”
Used in the imprecatory construction سُحْقًا لِـ, expressing a wish that someone be distanced from good, prosperity, or mercy.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 67:11word 3
“so away with”
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 37 Classical meanings
سَحَقَ
To bruise, bray, pound, or pulverize something.
Used of a solid thing or medicine; the action may be coarse, fine, or repeated.
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سَحَقَ
Of wind, to scour away, efface, or abrade the surface of the ground.
May describe the removal of traces and the carrying away of broken particles or dust.
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سَحَقَ
To wear a garment out.
A garment is the explicitly attested object of this usage.
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سَحَقَ
To render a hard thing soft or smooth.
Used transitively of a hard object.
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سَحَقَ
To destroy.
An extended or figurative use.
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سَحَقَ
To kill a louse.
Used in the specific expression سَحَقَ القَمْلَةَ.
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سَحَقَ
To shave the head.
Used in the expression سَحَقَ رَأْسَهُ.
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سَحَقَ
Of the eye, to spend or shed its tears.
Used of an eye and its tears.
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سَحُقَ
Of a garment, to become old and worn out.
An intransitive usage describing the condition of a garment.
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سَحُقَ / سَحِقَ
To be distant or remote.
Used of a thing or place; the associated noun سُحْقٌ denotes distance or remoteness.
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سَحُقَ
Of a palm tree, to become tall.
The height may be associated with a smooth trunk.
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سَحَقَ
Of an animal, to run vehemently.
The attested usage refers to a pace between ordinary walking and the more rapid gait called حُضْر, with variant comparisons in the lexical description.
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مُسَاحَقَةٌ
Mutual sexual rubbing between women.
A post-classical usage and a specialized application of rubbing together.
- Lane · entry 40444
أَسْحَقَ
To remove someone far away, alienate, or estrange him, including from mercy.
Used transitively, including in a usage said of God.
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أَسْحَقَ
Of a camel’s foot, to become smooth with a degree of hardness.
An intransitive usage applied specifically to a camel’s foot.
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أَسْحَقَ
Of an udder, to lose its milk and become wasted, dried up, or shrunken.
Used of an udder after its milk has gone away.
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أَسْحَقَ
Of a bucket, to become empty of its contents.
An intransitive usage applied to a bucket.
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تَسَاحُقٌ
Rubbing together.
A reciprocal or mutual-action verbal noun.
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اِنْسَحَقَ
To be bruised, brayed, or pounded.
A quasi-passive or intransitive result corresponding to سَحَقَ in its pounding sense.
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اِنْسَحَقَ
Of a garment, to become worn out, threadbare, or napless.
The description may apply even to a garment that is new but has lost its nap.
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اِنْسَحَقَ
Of a place, to be wide or ample.
An intransitive usage applied to a place.
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اِنْسَحَقَ
Of tears, to be shed or pour forth.
Used of tears as a flowing discharge.
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سَحْقٌ
An old, worn-out, thin, or threadbare garment.
Also used as a prefixed noun in phrases such as سَحْقُ ثَوْبٍ; the plural is سُحُوقٌ.
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سَحْقٌ
A worn or debased coin.
An extended usage, explicitly applied to a bad or counterfeit dirham.
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سَحْقٌ
A pastor’s bag.
A specific nominal usage.
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سَحْقٌ
Thin clouds.
A figurative usage comparing the clouds to an old, worn-out garment.
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سَحْقٌ
The white mark or scar left on a camel’s back after a gall or sore has healed.
Used of the healed, whitened place on the camel’s back.
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سُحْقَةٌ
Baldness.
Reported as a dialectal usage of Yemen.
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سَحُوقٌ
Tall or long, especially tall and advanced in age.
Applied especially to palm trees and also to male or female asses; it may describe a tall man, woman, or long legs. For a palm, it can imply height placing its fruit far above the gatherer.
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سَحِيقٌ
Bruised, brayed, pounded, or pulverized.
Explicitly applied to substances such as musk and saffron.
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سَحِيقَةٌ
A vehement rain that sweeps away what lies in its path.
Describes a rain of large drops that is intense but of limited breadth.
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سَحَّاقَةٌ
A woman who engages in sexual rubbing with another woman.
A specialized epithet described as blameworthy; its plural is سَحَّاقَاتٌ.
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سَاحِقٌ
Greatly distant or remote.
Used in the expression سُحْقٌ سَاحِقٌ, “great distance or remoteness.”
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أَسْحَقُ
Bald.
Reported as a dialectal usage of Yemen.
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مِسْحَقٌ
An instrument used for bruising, braying, or pounding.
A tool noun referring to an implement by which something is pulverized.
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مُنْسَحِقٌ
Wide or ample.
An adjectival usage applied to a place or expanse.
- Lane · entry 40460
مُنْسَحِقٌ
Of tears, pouring or streaming forth.
Equivalent in the cited usage to flowing or forcefully discharged tears.
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