Quranic root
سوغ
s · w · gh
The root centers on ease and smooth passage, especially the easy continuation of something through the throat.
The concrete sense of easy swallowing extends to facilitation, permissibility, access, and agreeable reception. Classical usage also records related branches involving succession and likeness, while keeping those branches lexically distinct.
- Maqāyīs · row 2526
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- Quran-attested forms
- 2
- Quran senses
- 3
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَسَاغَ
ʾasāgha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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.
To swallow; to take food or drink down into the throat, especially easily and agreeably.
In the Quran it occurs with an object that is swallowed, in a negative construction expressing that the object is scarcely swallowable. The ease component may therefore be contextually denied.
- Lane · entry 42722
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:17word 4
“(to) swallowing it”
سَائِغٌ
sāʾighun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Easy and agreeable to swallow or drink; palatable and not choking.
An active participle applied to beverage, food, or other ingestible material, describing its easy descent through the throat and pleasant swallowability.
- Lane · entry 42726
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:66word 16
“palatable”
Quran 35:12word 7
“pleasant”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 17 Classical meanings
سَاغَ
To pass easily and agreeably through the throat; of beverage, wine, or food, to be easy to swallow.
Form I usage, normally said of something being swallowed or passing down the throat.
- Lane · entry 42720
سُغْ
To enter a land while finding a place or opportunity of entry.
A figurative imperative construction derived from the notion of easy entrance.
- Lane · entry 42720
سَاغَ
To be allowable or lawful; for an act or matter to be acceptable as permitted.
Figurative usage, including the construction سَاغَ لَهُ مَا فَعَلَ, ‘what he did was allowable to him.’
- Lane · entry 42720
سَاغَ
Of the day, to be or become easy.
A specialized figurative usage said of the day.
- Lane · entry 42720
سَاغَتْ بِهِ الأَرْضُ
Of the earth, to sink with someone and swallow or enclose him.
A recorded figurative construction with the earth as subject.
- Lane · entry 42720
سَاغَتِ النَّاقَةُ
Of a she-camel, to become separate, run off, and go far away.
A specialized usage explicitly said of a she-camel.
- Lane · entry 42720
سَوَّغَ
To make what someone has attained pleasant or agreeable to him.
Form II figurative usage, with the person receiving the benefit commonly expressed by لَهُ.
- Lane · entry 42721
سَوَّغَ
To make something clear, available, allowable, lawful, or free to someone.
Form II usage of leaving an acquired matter or property unobstructed or at a person's disposal; the source records both the sense of making it clear and that of making it lawful or free.
- Lane · entry 42721
سَوَّغَ
To give someone a thing.
A figurative Form II construction with لَهُ.
- Lane · entry 42721
أَسَاغَ
To grant someone respite, treat him gently, or refrain from hurrying him.
An idiomatic figurative use, literally framed as making a choking thing easy to swallow.
- Lane · entry 42722
أَسَاغَ بِهِ
To complete an affair or accomplish one's objective by means of someone or something.
Used when the acquisition of the final person or item completes a required number or fulfills the intended need.
- Lane · entry 42722
أَسْوَغَ
To be born with one's brother or immediately after him.
The reported usage allows either birth in the same delivery or birth directly following the brother.
- Lane · entry 42722
سَوْغٌ
A person born immediately after another, especially a sibling; by extension, one who follows another closely in birth.
It may refer to a sibling or a non-sibling, and may also denote several people born after someone in the same delivery or in immediate succession.
- Lane · entry 42723
سَوْغٌ
A counterpart of the same cast, mould, form, or proportion; something fashioned like another.
Recorded as an alternative interpretation of هٰذَا سَوْغُ هٰذَا, with a possible dialectal relationship to صَوْغٌ noted in the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 42723
سِوَاغٌ
A thing that helps something choking enter the throat and pass down it, such as water.
A noun for a means or aid that facilitates swallowing.
- Lane · entry 42725
تَسْوِيغٌ
Official permission or authorization to take what is due to someone, with facilitation of its acquisition.
A post-Classical administrative usage, especially associated with an authority's permission to obtain a rightful due.
- Lane · entry 42729
مَسَاغٌ
A place or way of easy entrance or passage, especially for food or drink into the throat; figuratively, a way or opportunity of entry.
The figurative extension can refer to an entrance into land or to any available passage or avenue.
- Lane · entry 42730
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's Quran references use historical citation conventions; the Quran examples here rely on the independently supplied QAC locations rather than converting Lane's printed references directly.