صَغْو
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Highlights
Present tense
يُصْغِي
Verbal noun
إِصْغَاء
Active participle
مُصْغٍ
Passive participle
مُصْغًى
Most common words from the same root
Noun
إِصْغَاء
أَصْغَى in English
Verb · Form IV
- to listen closely to, to lend an ear to, to pay attention to, to hark, to hearken, to listen, to attend
أَصْغِ إِلَيَّlisten to me
- to incline, lean, bend towards (obsolete)
فَجَاءت هِرَّة تَشْرَب، فَأصْغَى لَهَا الإِنَاء حَتَّى شَرِبَتA cat came to drink from it, so he tilted the vessel for it until it drank.
Word origin
Compare صَغَا (ṣaḡā, “to incline, to lean”) (sense below of listen was originally incline an ear towards).
Words from the root ص-غ-و
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صَغَا
· present يَصْغُو
Form I · The plain action
to incline, to bend, to lean; to incline one's ear, to hearken, to listen
صُغُوّ
صَاغٍ
مَصْغُوّ
أَصْغَى conjugation
Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.
| Pronoun | Past | Present | Subjunctive | Jussive | Imperative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَنَا I | أَصْغَيْتُ | أُصْغِي | أُصْغِيَ | أُصْغِ | — |
| أَنْتَ you (m.) | أَصْغَيْتَ | تُصْغِي | تُصْغِيَ | تُصْغِ | أَصْغِ |
| أَنْتِ you (f.) | أَصْغَيْتِ | تُصْغِينَ | تُصْغِي | تُصْغِي | أَصْغِي |
| هُوَ he | أَصْغَى | يُصْغِي | يُصْغِيَ | يُصْغِ | — |
| هِيَ she | أَصْغَتْ | تُصْغِي | تُصْغِيَ | تُصْغِ | — |
| أَنْتُمَا you two | أَصْغَيْتُمَا | تُصْغِيَانِ | تُصْغِيَا | تُصْغِيَا | أَصْغِيَا |
| هُمَا they two (m.) | أَصْغَيَا | يُصْغِيَانِ | يُصْغِيَا | يُصْغِيَا | — |
| هُمَا they two (f.) | أَصْغَتَا | تُصْغِيَانِ | تُصْغِيَا | تُصْغِيَا | — |
| نَحْنُ we | أَصْغَيْنَا | نُصْغِي | نُصْغِيَ | نُصْغِ | — |
| أَنْتُمْ you all (m.) | أَصْغَيْتُمْ | تُصْغُونَ | تُصْغُوا | تُصْغُوا | أَصْغُوا |
| أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.) | أَصْغَيْتُنَّ | تُصْغِينَ | تُصْغِينَ | تُصْغِينَ | أَصْغِينَ |
| هُمْ they (m.) | أَصْغَوْا | يُصْغُونَ | يُصْغُوا | يُصْغُوا | — |
| هُنَّ they (f.) | أَصْغَيْنَ | يُصْغِينَ | يُصْغِينَ | يُصْغِينَ | — |
| Verbal noun | إِصْغَاء |
|---|---|
| Active participle | مُصْغٍ |
| Passive participle | مُصْغًى |
أَصْغَى in a sentence
Dictionary examples
to listen closely to
أَصْغِ إِلَيَّlisten to me
to incline
فَجَاءت هِرَّة تَشْرَب، فَأصْغَى لَهَا الإِنَاء حَتَّى شَرِبَتA cat came to drink from it, so he tilted the vessel for it until it drank.
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