غزا

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Arabic[edit]

Root
غ ز و (ḡ-z-w)

Verb[edit]

غَزَا (ḡazā) I, non-past يَغْزُو‎ (yaḡzū)

  1. (obsolete) to seek, to desire
  2. to raid, to foray, to betake oneself to wage war against, to attack
  3. to overwhelm, to overcome
    • 2018 September 2, “ar: أمير سعودي يعلق على تجسس الإمارات عليه وعلى مكالمات أمير قطر والحريري”, in Muraselon[1]:
      تعد “NSO” واحدة من أشهر منشئي برامج المراقبة التي تغزو الهواتف الذكية.
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Usage notes[edit]

The verbal noun غَزَوَان (ḡazawān) is used only with the second sense, “raid”.

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “غزا”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2], volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 274
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “غزا”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2257
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غزا”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 915