ساق

• IPA^(key): /saː.qa/

سَاقَ • (sāqa) I, non-past يَسُوقُ‎ (yasūqu)

1. to drive
2. to conscript
3. to pilot
4. to transport
5. to send
6. to utter
7. to cite, to quote

From Aramaic שָׁקָא (šāqā, “shin”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒆸 (sâqu, “to be narrow, skinny, or constricted”), cognate to native Arabic ضَيِّق (ḍayyiq, “narrow, pressed”); compare Classical Syriac ܫܩܐ (šāqā, “shin”), Hebrew שׁוֹק (shok, “shin”). Connected back to the root س و ق (s-w-q) by the urging on of animals with one's legs when riding or by driving them forward by tapping at their legs.

• IPA^(key): /saːq/

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سَاق • (sāq) f (plural سُوق (sūq) or سُؤُوق (suʔūq) or سِيقَان (sīqān) or أَسْوُق (ʔaswuq))

1. leg
2. shank
3. side of an angle
4. perpendicular
5. trunk, stalk
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 48:29:

     وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الْإِنجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَىٰ عَلَىٰ سُوقِهِ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. column, pillar
7. scale (balance)
8. genus, gender, kind
9. pain, torment

Derived from the active participle of سَقَى (saqā, “to water”).

• IPA^(key): /saː.qa/

سَاقٍ • (sāqin) m (construct state سَاقِي (sāqī), plural سَاقُونَ (sāqūna) or سُقَاة (suqāh) or سُقَّاء (suqqāʔ) or سُقِيّ (suqiyy), feminine سَاقِيَة (sāqiya))

1. cupbearer
2. water carrier
3. barkeeper
4. waiter

• “ساق” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 331
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 337
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1386
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1470
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ساق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 474
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ساق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 518
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ساق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 485
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ساق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 516
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ساق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 579
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ساق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 615

From Arabic سَاقَ (sāqa).

ساق • (sāʔ) I (non-past يسوق (yisūʔ))

1. to drive

• IPA^(key): /saːɡ/

From Arabic سَاقَ (sāqa).

ساق • (sāg) I (non-past يِسوق (yisūg))

1. to drive

From Arabic سَاق (sāq).

ساق • (sāg) f (dual ساقين (sāgēn), plural سيقان (sīgān))

1. leg

From Arabic سَاقَ (sāqa).

• IPA^(key): /saːq/, /saːɡ/

ساق • (sāq) I (non-past يسوق (ysūq), verbal noun سوقان (sūqān), active participle سايق (sāyiq))

1. to drive

   Synonym: نده (ndah)

From Arabic سَاق (sāq).

• IPA^(key): /saːq/

ساق • (sāq) f (plural سيقان (sīqān))

1. leg

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /saːʔ/, [sæːʔ]
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /saːɡ/, [sæːɡ]

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From Arabic سَاقَ (sāqa).

ساق • (sāʔ) I (present بسوق (bisūʔ))

1. to drive

From Arabic سَاق (sāq).

ساق • (sāʔ) m (plural سقان (siʔān) or سوق (sūʔ))

1. shank
2. calf (of the leg)

   Synonym: بطة (baṭṭa)

3. (by extension) leg

   Synonyms: إجر (ʔijr), رجل (rijl)

4. stalk (of a plant)
5. trunk (of a tree)