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هجء

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of hunger, satiation, and cessation. It also extends to the meaning of reciting or spelling out words, and fulfilling obligations.

Derived headwords

هَجِئَverb
  1. 1.
    hunger intensifiedclassical

    The man's hunger became intense and inflamed.

هَجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    hunger subsidedclassical

    Hunger subsided, went away, and ceased.

هَجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    hunger subsidedclassical

    Hunger subsided, went away, and ceased.

هَجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    filledclassical

    Food filled his hunger.

هَجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    ateclassical

    He ate the food.

أَهْجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    satiated hungerclassical

    Food satiated and stopped his hunger.

إِهْجَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    satiationclassical

    The act of satiating or satisfying hunger.

مَهْجُوءadjective
  1. 1.
    unsatisfyingclassical

    Food that does not satisfy hunger.

هَجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    restrainedclassical

    He restrained the camels and sheep so they could graze.

أَهْجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    restrainedclassical

    He restrained the camels and sheep so they could graze.

الهِجَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    spellingboth

    The spelling of a letter or word.

تَهَجَّأَverb
  1. 1.
    spelled outboth

    He spelled out the letter.

تَهْجِيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    spellingboth

    The act of spelling out a letter or word.

الهَجَأnoun
  1. 1.
    cessationclassical

    Anything that has ceased or been cut off from you.

هَجَاverb
  1. 1.
    ceasedclassical

    It ceased or was cut off from you.

أَدَّىverb
  1. 1.
    fulfilledboth

    He fulfilled his right to him.

Parallel reading

هَجِئَ الرجلُ هَجَأً: التهب جوعه
The man's hunger intensified intensely: his hunger inflamed.
وهَجَأ جوعه هَجَأ وهُجُوءاً: سكن وذهب
And his hunger subsided, subsided, and went away: it became calm and disappeared.
وهَجَأ غرثي يهجأ هَجَأً: سكن وذهب وانقطع
And his hunger subsided, he was hungry, it subsided, it went away, and it ceased.
وهَجَأه الطعام يهجؤه هَجَأً: ملأه
And food filled him, it filled him: it made him full.
وهَجَأ الطعام: أكله
And he ate the food: he ate it.
وأهْجَأ الطعامُ غرثي: سكنه وقطعه، إهْجَاءً
And food satiated his hunger: it calmed it and cut it off, satiation.
وأطعمهم من مطعم غير مهجئ
And He fed them from food that did not satisfy hunger.
وهَجَأ الإبلَ والغنمَ وأهْجَأها: كفّها لترعى
And he restrained the camels and the sheep and restrained them: he held them back to graze.
والهجاء، ممدود: تهجئة الحرف
And al-hija', extended: the spelling of the letter.
وتَهَجَّأتُ الحرفَ وتَهَجّيتهُ، بهمْزٍ وتبديلٍ
And I spelled out the letter and I spelled it out, with hamza and substitution.
أبو العباس: الهَجَأ يقصر ويهمز، وهو كل ما كنت فيه، فانقطع عنك
Abu al-Abbas said: Al-haja' is shortened and hamzated, and it is anything that you were in, and then it was cut off from you.
وقضيتُ من ورق الشباب هَجَا، ... من كل أحوز راجح قصبه
And I have passed through the prime of youth, ceased... from every strong, well-built young man.
وأهْجَأتهُ حقَّهُ وأهْجَيْتُهُ حقَّهُ إذا أديتَهُ إليه
And I fulfilled his right to him and I fulfilled his right to him when you paid it to him.