ص غ ر
Arabic
Root
ص غ ر • (ṣ-ḡ-r)
- 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)
- 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: صَاغِر (ṣāḡir, “lowly, contemptible, humiliated, submissive, subject”)
- Form I: صَغِرَ (ṣaḡira, “to be lowly, humble”)
- Verbal noun: صَغَر (ṣaḡar)
- Active participle: صَاغِر (ṣāḡir)
- 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 (ʾaṣḡara, “to make contemptible, consider as contemptible”)
- Verbal noun: إِصْغَار (ʾiṣḡār, “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 (ʾaṣḡar, “smaller, littler, younger, lesser”); plural صَغَائِر (ṣaḡāʾir, “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