زاغ

See also: راع

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ز ي غ (z-y-ḡ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zaː.ɣa/

Verb

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

     [Remember] 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.

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Persian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] , from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Iranian (compare Sogdian [script needed] (zʾγ /⁠zāγ⁠/, “crow”), Kurdish, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Parthian [script needed] (zxs- /⁠zaxs-⁠/, “to sound”)).

Noun

Dari	زاغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зоғ

زاغ • (zâğ)

1. rook (bird)