سقى

Core meaning

To bring water to the one who needs it: to water a being or a land, or to ask for drink.

Uses

1. سَقَىٰ, يَسْقِى, أَسْقَىٰ → "to water", "to give drink" : to give water to another: beasts, fields, people.

   • «يُسْقَىٰ بِمَآءٍۢ وَٰحِدٍۢ» — "watered by the same water" (13:4)
   • «فَسَقَىٰ لَهُمَا» — "He watered for them" (28:24)

2. يُسْقَىٰ, سُقُوا۟ → "to be given to drink" : on the Day, the water received tells each one's lot.

   • «وَيُسْقَىٰ مِن مَّآءٍۢ صَدِيدٍۢ» — "and he will be given to drink there a purulent water" (14:16)
   • «وَسَقَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ شَرَابًۭا طَهُورًا» — "And their Guardian has given them to drink a purely purifying drink" (76:21)

3. ٱسْتَسْقَىٰ → "to ask for drink" : the request for water, for oneself or for one's own.

   • «وَإِذِ ٱسْتَسْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِۦ» — "And when Moussa asked for drink for his people" (2:60)

4. سِقَايَة, سُقْيَا → "the giving of drink", "the cup" : the act of giving drink, the right to water, or the object used for it.

   • «سِقَايَةَ ٱلْحَآجِّ» — "the giving of drink to those performing the Hajj" (9:19)
   • «جَعَلَ ٱلسِّقَايَةَ فِى رَحْلِ أَخِيهِ» — "he placed the cup in his brother's saddlebag" (12:70)

Evidence from the text

The gesture always goes toward another: Moussa waters for the two women, who were waiting for the shepherds to leave (28:23-24); God gives people drink from the water of the sky (15:22, 77:27) and from the milk of beasts (16:66). The request keeps this sense: Moussa asks for drink for his people (2:60).

On the Day, what one receives to drink tells each one's lot: a purulent water (14:16), a boiling water that cuts the entrails to pieces (47:15), or a cup whose blend is of ginger (76:17) and a drink given by the Guardian Himself (76:21). In 91:13, "her watering" is the she-camel's right to water, which the Thamud did not respect.

Distinctions

• شرب — to drink: the act of the one who drinks; سقى gives drink to another

See also

موه (water)