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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic

EtymArab

ṭaġā / ṭaġaw- طَغا/طَغَوْــ , u,
ṭaġà / ṭaġay- طَغَى/طَغَيْــ , a (ṭaġy), and
ṭaġiya / ṭaġī- طَغِيَ/طَغِيــ , a (ṭaġaⁿ, ṭuġyān)

meta

√ṬĠW/Y

gram

vb., I

engl

1 to exceed proper bounds, overstep the bounds, be excessive; 2a to be rough, tumultuous, rage (sea); b to overflow, leave its banks (river); c to flood, overflow, inundate, deluge (ʕalà s.th.); 3 to overcome, seize, grip, befall (ʕalà s.o.); 4 to be tyrannical or cruel (ʕalà against s.o.), tyrannize, oppress, terrorize (ʕalà s.o.), ride roughshod (ʕalà over s.o.); 5 ṭaġà, a, to predominate, prevail, preponderate (ʕalà in, at), dominate, outweigh, outbalance (ʕalà s.th.), be preponderant (ʕalà over, in comparison with s.th.) – WehrCowan1976

conc

▪ From protSem *ṬĠW/Y ‘to exceed, transgress, go astray’ (?)
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hist

▪ eC7 ṭaġā 1 ([of water] to overflow, to be tumultuous) Q 69:11 ʔinnā lammā ṭaġà ’l-māʔu ḥamalnā-kum fī ’l-ǧāriyaẗi ‘when the water flooded We carried you in the sailing vessel’; 2 (to violate the established norms of justice) Q 55:8 ʔallā taṭġaw fī ’l-mīzāni ‘so that you do not transgress [the norms of justice] in weighing [judgement]’; 3 (to become tyrannical) Q 20:24 ’ḏhab ʔilà Firʕawna ʔinna-hū ṭaġà ‘go to Pharaoh, for he has truly become tyrannical’; 4 (to veer away, wander off, quit, go off the mark) Q 53:17 mā zāġa ’l-baṣaru wa-mā ṭaġà ‘[his] sight never wavered, nor did it wander’
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cogn

▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ṬĠW/Y: Akk ṭāt ‘don pour corrompre, pot-de-vin’, Hbr hiṭʕāʰ ‘égarer’, nHbr ṭāʕūt, JudPalAram ṭāʕūtā ‘erreur, idole’, Palm ṭʕy ‘commettre une erreur’, ṭʕwn ‘erreur’, Syr ṭᵊʕā ‘se tromper, oublier, être séduit’, ʔaṭʕī ‘séduire, corrompre’, Mnd aṭa ‘séduire’, Ar ṭaġā ‘sortir des bornes, déborder; bouillonner (sang, mer)’, ṭāġiⁿ ‘qui sort des bornes; injuste, orgueilleux’; ṭāġūt ‘idole; démon; sorcier, magicien’, Gz ṭāʕot, Tña ṭaʕot, Te Amh ṭaʔot ‘idole’. | Le radical présente en Hbr une forme parallèle TʕW/Y. – D’après Wagner 61, Hbr < Aram.
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
▪ The Qur’ānic ↗ṭāġūt ‘idol, false god; seducer, tempter (to error)’ has, ultimately, the same Sem background, but must be considered an inner-Sem borrowing, via Aram.
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west

deriv

►ṭuġwān, n., flood, inundation, deluge
►ṭuġyān, n., 1 flood, inundation, deluge; 2 tyranny, oppression, suppression, repression, terrorization
►^BP#3641ṭāġiⁿ, pl. ṭuġāẗ, n., tyrant, oppressor, despot
►^BP#3806ṭāġiyaẗ, n.(m.), 1 tyrant, oppressor, despot; 2 bully, brute, gorilla

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