أغرق

Arabic

Etymology

From the root غ ر ق (ḡ-r-q).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaɣ.ra.qa/

Verb

أَغْرَقَ (ʔaḡraqa) IV, non-past يُغْرِقُ‎ (yuḡriqu)

  1. to drown
    609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:37:
    وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ لَّمَّا كَذَّبُوا الرُّسُلَ أَغْرَقْنَاهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ آيَةً ۖ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّالِمِينَ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
    And the people of Noah - when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them for mankind a sign. And We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.
  2. to flood

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837), أغرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995), أغرق”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
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  • Lane, Edward William (1863), أغرق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960), أغرق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
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