Arabic word sheet
ذَاقَ
To taste
- Type
- verb
- Root
- ذ و ق
Meaning and usage
To taste
To perceive the flavour of a food or a drink by taking a little of it in the mouth.
ذَاقَتْ سَلْمَى الْحَسَاءَ قَبْلَ الْغَدَاءِ.
Salma tasted the soup before lunch.
To experience, to undergo
Figuratively: to know a thing through having lived it oneself, above all a hardship or a pain, but also a joy.
ذَاقَ الْمُسَافِرُ تَعَبَ الطَّرِيقِ الطَّوِيلِ.
The traveller experienced the weariness of the long road.
To try, to put to the test
In the old language: to try a person or a thing in order to find out its worth.
Word family
What the root means ذ و ق
The root carries the idea of perceiving by taste, then of knowing a thing by trying it oneself, with the mouth or otherwise. From it come “taste”, “flavour”, “a bite to taste”, “to savour little by little” and “one who soon tires of things”.
taste
ذَوْقٌ
flavour
مَذَاقٌ
something to taste, a bite
ذَوَاقٌ
to savour little by little
تَذَوَّقَ
connoisseur, person of taste; (old) one who soon tires of things
ذَوَّاقٌ
Synonyms
to know by trial
خَبَرَ
It says that one knows someone or something through having tried it, without the image of tasting.
to taste, to eat
طَعِمَ
It is mostly said of food that one takes, whereas the headword is said of what one takes only a little of, to learn its taste.