ص غ ر

Arabic

Root

ص غ ر • (ṣ-ḡ-r)

1. related to smallness and youngness

Antonyms

• ك ب ر (k b r)

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: صَغُرَ (ṣaḡura, “to be or become small, diminish, decrease; to be young”)
  • Verbal noun: صِغَر (ṣiḡar), صَغَارَة ( ṣaḡāra)
  • Passive participle: مَصْغُور (maṣḡūr)
• Form I: صَغَرَ (ṣaḡara, “to be younger than”)
  • Verbal noun: صَغْر (ṣaḡr)
  • Active participle: صَاغِر (ṣāḡir)
  • Passive participle: مَصْغُور (maṣḡūr)
• Form I: صَغُرَ (ṣaḡura, “to be lowly, humble”)
  • Verbal noun: صَغَار (ṣaḡār), صَغَارَة (ṣaḡāra)
  • Active participle: ? (“lowly, contemptible, humiliated, submissive, subject”)
  • Passive participle: مَصْغُور (maṣḡūr)
• Form I: صَغِرَ (ṣaḡira, “to be lowly, humble”)
  • Verbal noun: صَغَر (ṣaḡar)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: صَغَّرَ (ṣaḡḡara, “to make small or smaller, lessen, minimize, reduce, decrease, belittle, deride, ridicule”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصْغِير (taṣḡīr, “diminution, lessening, decrease, reduction”)
  • Active participle: مُصَغِّر (muṣaḡḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُصَغَّر (muṣaḡḡar, “reduced, decreased, diminished, scaled down”)
• Form IV: أَصْغَرَ (ʔaṣḡara, “to make contemptible, consider as contemptible”)
  • Verbal noun: إِصْغَار (ʔiṣḡār, “disdain, contempt, disregard”)
  • Active participle: مُصْغِر (muṣḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُصْغَر (muṣḡar)
• Form VI: تَصَاغَرَ (taṣāḡara, “to prove oneself contemptible, grovel, to feel small”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصَاغُر (taṣāḡur, “servility, groveling”)
  • Active participle: مُتَصَاغِر (mutaṣāḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَصَاغَر (mutaṣāḡar)
• Form X: اِسْتَصْغَرَ (istaṣḡara, “to deem small, undervalue”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِصْغَار (istiṣḡār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَصْغِر (mustaṣḡir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَصْغَر (mustaṣḡar)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• صَغِير (ṣaḡīr, “small, little, insignificant, tiny, young”)
  • صَغِيرَة (ṣaḡīra, “venial sin (Islam), minor mistake”)
  • أَصْغَر (ʔaṣḡar, “smaller, littler, younger, lesser”); plural صَغَائِر (ṣaḡāʔir, “trifles”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صغر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN