ذَكَاء
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Highlights
Present tense
يُذَكِّي
Verbal noun
تَذْكِيَة
Active participle
مُذَكٍّ
Passive participle
مُذَكًّى
Most common words from the same root
ذَكَّى in English
Verb · Form II
- to slaughter transitive
وَمَآ أَكَلَ ٱلسَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ وَمَا ذُبِحَ عَلَى ٱلنُّصُبِYou shall not eat that from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] ritually slaughter [before its death] and what is slit up on the altars.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:3
- to set fire on transitive
Word origin
In the sense of setting fire causative to ذَكَا (ḏakā, “to flare up”), in the sense of slaughtering probably a loan from Jewish Aramaic, the geminate verb דַּכֵּי (dakkē) usually meaning to “to purify ritually, to clean by separation”, see as well the semantic history of زَكَاة (zakāh).
Words from the root ذ-ك-ي
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ذَكَّى
· present يُذَكِّي
Form II · Causative or intensive
to slaughter; to set fire on
تَذْكِيَة
مُذَكٍّ
مُذَكًّى
تَذَاكَى
· present يَتَذَاكَى
Form VI · Mutual action
to feign intelligence, to pretend to be smart
تَذَاكٍ
مُتَذَاكٍ
مُتَذَاكًى
ذَكَاوَة
sharpness of intelligence
ذَكَّى conjugation
Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.
| Pronoun | Past | Present | Subjunctive | Jussive | Imperative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَنَا I | ذَكَّيْتُ | أُذَكِّي | أُذَكِّيَ | أُذَكِّ | — |
| أَنْتَ you (m.) | ذَكَّيْتَ | تُذَكِّي | تُذَكِّيَ | تُذَكِّ | ذَكِّ |
| أَنْتِ you (f.) | ذَكَّيْتِ | تُذَكِّينَ | تُذَكِّي | تُذَكِّي | ذَكِّي |
| هُوَ he | ذَكَّى | يُذَكِّي | يُذَكِّيَ | يُذَكِّ | — |
| هِيَ she | ذَكَّتْ | تُذَكِّي | تُذَكِّيَ | تُذَكِّ | — |
| أَنْتُمَا you two | ذَكَّيْتُمَا | تُذَكِّيَانِ | تُذَكِّيَا | تُذَكِّيَا | ذَكِّيَا |
| هُمَا they two (m.) | ذَكَّيَا | يُذَكِّيَانِ | يُذَكِّيَا | يُذَكِّيَا | — |
| هُمَا they two (f.) | ذَكَّتَا | تُذَكِّيَانِ | تُذَكِّيَا | تُذَكِّيَا | — |
| نَحْنُ we | ذَكَّيْنَا | نُذَكِّي | نُذَكِّيَ | نُذَكِّ | — |
| أَنْتُمْ you all (m.) | ذَكَّيْتُمْ | تُذَكُّونَ | تُذَكُّوا | تُذَكُّوا | ذَكُّوا |
| أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.) | ذَكَّيْتُنَّ | تُذَكِّينَ | تُذَكِّينَ | تُذَكِّينَ | ذَكِّينَ |
| هُمْ they (m.) | ذَكَّوْا | يُذَكُّونَ | يُذَكُّوا | يُذَكُّوا | — |
| هُنَّ they (f.) | ذَكَّيْنَ | يُذَكِّينَ | يُذَكِّينَ | يُذَكِّينَ | — |
| Verbal noun | تَذْكِيَة |
|---|---|
| Active participle | مُذَكٍّ |
| Passive participle | مُذَكًّى |
ذَكَّى in a sentence
Dictionary examples
to slaughter
وَمَآ أَكَلَ ٱلسَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ وَمَا ذُبِحَ عَلَى ٱلنُّصُبِYou shall not eat that from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] ritually slaughter [before its death] and what is slit up on the altars.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:3
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