زاغ

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See also: راع

Arabic

Root
ز ي غ (z y ḡ)
1 term

Pronunciation

Verb

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
      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

Ottoman Turkish

زاغ

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زاغ (zâğ, rook).

Noun

زاغ (zağ)

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

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Dari زاغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik зоғ

زاغ (zâğ)

  1. rook (bird)