زاغ

From the root ز ي غ‎ (z-y-ḡ).

• IPA^(key): /zaː.ɣa/

زَاغَ • (zāḡa) I, non-past يَزِيغُ‎‎ (yazīḡu)

1. to deviate, to turn away, to swerve
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:10:

     ‏إِذْ جَاؤُوكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَإِذْ زَاغَتْ الأَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتْ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللّٰهِ الظُّنُونَا‎

     ʔiḏ jāʔūkum min fawqikum wamin ʔasfala minkum waʔiḏ zāḡat al-ʔabṣāru wabalaḡat al-qulūbu l-ḥanājira wataẓunnūna bi-l-lāhi ẓ-ẓunūnā

     [Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when the gazes shifted, and the hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah assumptions.

From Middle Iranian, from Proto-Iranian (compare Sogdian [script needed] (zʾγ /zāγ/, “crow”), Northern Kurdish zax (“crow”), Parthian [script needed] (zxs- /zaxs-/, “to sound”)).

زاغ • (zâğ)

1. rook (bird)