زاغ

• IPA^(key): /zaː.ɣa/

زَاغَ • (zāḡa) I (non-past يَزِيغُ (yazīḡu), verbal noun زَيْغ (zayḡ) or زَيَغَان (zayaḡān))

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.

Borrowed from Persian زاغ (zâğ, “rook”).

زاغ • (zağ)

1. carrion crow, the common European black crow (Corvus corone)
2. rook, a common European bird of the crow family (Corvus frugilegus)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zağ4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5423
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زاغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 638b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corvus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 294
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زاغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2417
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زاغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1001

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)