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Sealed8 occurrences غبر ghbr What remains behind when the rest has gone: those who do not leave with their own, and the dust that falls back and covers. Uses 1. ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ → "those who linger behi… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غبن ghbn Being cheated in an exchange; on the pattern of reciprocity, ٱلتَّغَابُن says the moment when each one discovers what he gave up and what he received. Uses 1. ٱلتَّغَابُن… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غثو ghthw Wisps of straw: dry, weightless strands that the current carries off; what a living thing becomes when neither sap nor weight is left to it. Uses 1. غُثَآء → "wisps of st… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غدر ghdr To leave a part behind without taking it into account; the text uses it only under negation: nothing is left aside. Uses 1. نُغَادِرْ, يُغَادِرُ → "to omit" : always nega… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غدق ghdq Water flowing in profusion: an abundance that is given, and that puts the one who receives it to the test. Uses 1. غَدَقًا → "plentiful" : qualifies the water given to dr… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences غدو ghdw To go out at the start of the day: the departure that opens a stage. Hence the morning, facing the evening, the day to come, and the meal taken on the way. Uses 1. غَدَوْ… Read the entry → Sealed19 occurrences غرب ghrb To pass into darkness: the sun that vanishes on the horizon, the side where it sets, and, by hue, the deepest black, that of the raven. Uses 1. غَرَبَت, تَغْرُبُ, ٱلْغُرُ… Read the entry → Sealed27 occurrences غرر ghrr To make what is not safe appear safe: to delude by an appearance that attracts and reassures, until it turns one away from what is coming. Uses 1. غَرَّ, غَرَّتْهُمُ, تَغ… Read the entry → Sealed7 occurrences غرف ghrf Two uses under one root: to draw into the hollow of the hand the measure it holds, and the high chamber, the elevated dwelling of the reward. The text does not link the t… Read the entry → Sealed23 occurrences غرق ghrq To be submerged by water until one perishes in it: to drown, to be drowned; in the oath of 79:1, the tearing away that plunges to the bottom. Uses 1. أَغْرَقَ, يُغْرِقُ →… Read the entry → Sealed6 occurrences غرم ghrm What one is forced to bear without having wished it: a debt imposed by an unforeseen expense, an expense felt as a charge, a penalty that falls unforeseen and must be pai… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غرو ghrw To set one against another: to unleash a hostility that clings to those it targets and no longer leaves them. Uses 1. فَأَغْرَيْنَا, لَنُغْرِيَنَّكَ → "to unleash among",… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غزل ghzl Spinning: the thread obtained by twisting fibres, a work of patience that holds by its twist. Uses 1. غَزْل → "her thread" : the spun thread, which one can unravel after… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غزو ghzw To go off on an expedition: to leave one's own for a distant fight. Uses 1. غُزًّى → "to go off on an expedition" : those who are on an expedition, far from the circle of… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غسق ghsq The darkness that gains and penetrates; in the form غَسَّاق, a dark and foul drink. Uses 1. غَسَق → "the darkness" : night at the point where it thickens, the limit of a… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غسل ghsl To wash with water what must be made clean: the body before the Contact; hence the water that serves for washing, and the liquid that flows from the washing. Uses 1. ٱغْس… Read the entry → Sealed29 occurrences غشو ghshw To cover entirely, so as to withdraw from sight: the night over the day, the wave over the ship, sleep, punishment. Uses 1. يُغْشِى, يَغْشَىٰ, غَشِيَ, غَشَّىٰ → "to cover… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غصب ghsb To take by force what belongs to another, without right or consent. Uses 1. غَصْبًا → "by force" : the way the king takes the boats. «يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصْبًۭا» —… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غصص ghss What sticks in the throat: a food that does not go down, and that chokes instead of nourishing. Uses 1. غُصَّةٍ → "that chokes" : qualifies a food that cannot be swallowe… Read the entry → Sealed24 occurrences غضب ghdb Anger: the sharp response that a transgression arouses; it is said of God and of the human. Uses 1. غَضَب → "anger" : the anger that falls upon those who have transgresse… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غضض ghdd To lower of one's own accord what might rise or impose itself: the gaze, the voice; a restraint one chooses. Uses 1. يَغُضُّوا۟, يَغْضُضْنَ + مِنْ أَبْصَٰر → "to cast dow… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غطش ghtsh To darken: to plunge into darkness, by an act, and not to let night fall of itself. Uses 1. أَغْطَشَ → "to darken" : God makes the night of the sky, as He brings forth it… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غطو ghtw The veil: what covers an organ of the senses and keeps it away from what it should grasp, and which can be removed. Uses 1. غِطَاء → "a veil", "your veil" : laid on the e… Read the entry → Sealed234 occurrences غفر ghfr To cover the fault so that it ceases to weigh: to forgive. God forgives, His forgiveness is asked, and the human forgives in turn. Uses 1. غَفَرَ, يَغْفِرُ, ٱغْفِرْ → "to… Read the entry → Sealed35 occurrences غفل ghfl Heedlessness: not paying attention to what should be present to the mind. Uses 1. غَافِل (God, negated) → "is not heedless of" : the formula stating that nothing people d… Read the entry → Sealed31 occurrences غلب ghlb To get the better of the other in a confrontation: to overcome, or to be overcome. Uses 1. غَلَبَ, يَغْلِبُ → "to overcome", "to win out" : to have the upper hand over an… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences غلظ ghlz The thickness that makes hard: what does not bend, whether a plant growing stout, an engagement, an attitude or a punishment. Uses 1. ٱسْتَغْلَظَ → "to thicken" : the sta… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غلف ghlf The wrapping: what covers and keeps closed, so that nothing gets in. Uses 1. غُلْف → "wrapped up" : the cores their bearers say are closed to what is announced to them. «… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غلق ghlq To close completely: to bolt an access so that no one may enter or leave. Uses 1. غَلَّقَتِ → "to bolt" : form II, on a plural: all the doors, one after another. «وَغَلَّ… Read the entry → Sealed16 occurrences غلل ghll To bind and hold back: the shackle that holds the neck and the hand, the rancor that stays knotted in the chest, the good held back by embezzlement. Uses 1. ٱلْأَغْلَٰل →… Read the entry → Sealed13 occurrences غلم ghlm The boy: the male child, from the announcement of his birth to his youth. Uses 1. غُلَام (the announcement) → "a boy" : the announced child, often where everything seemed… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غلو ghlw To go beyond the right measure: to exaggerate, overstepping the truth. Uses 1. لَا تَغْلُوا۟ → "Do not exaggerate" : the call addressed to the people of the Scripture, tw… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غلى ghla To boil: the agitation of a liquid set on the fire. Uses 1. يَغْلِى, غَلْى → "to boil" : the verb and the verbal noun, side by side in one comparison. «يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُط… Read the entry → Sealed4 occurrences غمر ghmr Immersion: what covers entirely, like deep water, the one plunged in it, down to his awareness. Uses 1. غَمَرَات ٱلْمَوْت → "the throes of death" : the moment when death… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غمز ghmz To signal to one another with the eye, covertly and in mockery. Uses 1. يَتَغَامَزُونَ → "to wink at one another" : form VI, reciprocal: those who cut themselves off, amo… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غمض ghmd To close one's eyes to a thing so as to accept it without looking: to consent to what one would not take willingly. Uses 1. تُغْمِضُوا۟ → "to close one's eyes (to it)" :… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences غمم ghmm To cover and darken: the cloud that veils the sky, the anguish that weighs on the one it covers, the matter that stays in shadow. Uses 1. ٱلْغَمَام → "the cloud", "the cl… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences غنم ghnm The goods one takes and keeps: spoils, and small livestock, the first of riches. Uses 1. غَنِمْتُم → "to take as spoils" : to acquire goods from the adversary; always pla… Read the entry → Sealed73 occurrences غنى ghna To be self-sufficient: to need nothing else. Said of God, it is His quality; said of what a person possesses, it is what, at the moment one would need it, avails nothing.… Read the entry → Sealed9 occurrences غوث ghwth To call for rescue in distress, and the rescue that answers that call; hence the rain that draws the land out of drought. Uses 1. ٱسْتَغَاثَ → "to call for rescue" : the… Read the entry → Sealed5 occurrences غور ghwr To sink into the depth and vanish there: water lost underground, the hollow one enters, the assault that plunges. Uses 1. غَوْرًا → "to sink" : water that goes down under… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غوص ghws To dive beneath the surface of the water. Uses 1. يَغُوصُونَ, غَوَّاص → "to dive", "diver" : the task that some of the Diverters perform for Sulayman. «وَمِنَ ٱلشَّيَٰطِي… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غوط ghwt The hollow of the ground where one withdraws; hence the act one performs there: relieving oneself. Uses 1. ٱلْغَائِط → "relieving oneself" : the Arabic says "coming from… Read the entry → Sealed1 occurrences غول ghwl The harm that seizes without showing itself: what a drink leaves behind, and what the cup of the Garden does not carry. Uses 1. غَوْلٌ → "headache" : the dull harm that f… Read the entry → Sealed22 occurrences غوى ghwa To err: to go adrift far from the way, through seduction or through one's own conduct, or to draw another into it. It is the opposite of rectitude. Uses 1. ٱلْغَىّ, غَيًّ… Read the entry → Sealed60 occurrences غيب ghyb To be absent: what is not present to the senses, and the one who is not there. The word names a limit of presence, not a separate realm. Uses 1. ٱلْغَيْب, غَيْب → "what e… Read the entry → Sealed2 occurrences غيض ghyd To fall below the full: water receding after the flood, the womb holding less than it might. Uses 1. غِيضَ → "to subside" : the ebbing of the waters, from their highest l… Read the entry → Sealed11 occurrences غيظ ghyz The rage that rises and is held back: contained anger, which gnaws at the one who bears it, or which one provokes in another. Uses 1. ٱلْغَيْظ → "rage" : anger held withi… Read the entry →