ملج

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of sucking, particularly of milk by an infant or young animal from its mother. It extends to related concepts like taking, consuming, and metaphorically, sexual intercourse. It also encompasses terms for specific plants, their parts, and descriptive adjectives for complexion and texture.

Derived headwords

مَلَجَverb

1.
to suckleboth
The act of a child suckling its mother.
2.
to suckboth
To take something by sucking, like milk from a teat.

ملج الصبي أمه يملجها ملجا وملجها إذا رضعها — The boy suckled his mother, he suckled her a suckling and he suckled her when he nursed her.

أَمْلَجَverb

1.
to suckle (mother)both
The mother suckled her child.

وأملجته هي — And she suckled him.

مَلْجnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or nursing.
2.
suckboth
The act of taking something with the mouth, especially milk.
3.
sexual intercourseclassical
A woman's sexual intercourse with a man.
4.
date pitsclassical
The pits of the date fruit.
5.
dark-skinned peopleclassical
People of dark complexion, dark-skinned.

الملج تناول الشيء — The suckling is taking something.

الملج المص — The suckling is sucking.

ملج المرأة: نكحها كلمجها — A woman's ملج: her sexual intercourse like her suckling.

والملج السمر من الناس — And the ملج are the dark-skinned people.

والملج نوى المقل — And the ملج are the date pits.

مَلَجَانadjective

1.
one who sucksclassical
A man who sucks the milk from the udders of camels and sheep without milking them, out of stinginess.

ورجل ملجان مصان: يرضع الإبل والغنم من ضروعها ولا يحلبها لئلا يسمع، وذلك من لؤمه — And a ملجان man, a suckler: he nurses the camels and sheep from their udders and does not milk them lest he be heard, and that is from his meanness.

امْتَلَجَverb

1.
to suck upboth
To suck up or absorb all the liquid from something, like a young animal emptying an udder.

وامتلج الفصيل ما في الضرع: امتصه — And the young camel sucked up what was in the udder: he absorbed it.

إمْلاجnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or nursing.
2.
suckboth
A single act of sucking.

والإملاج: الإرضاع — And the إملاج is the suckling.

لا تحرم الإملاجة ولا الإملاجتان — A single suckling and two sucklings do not prohibit (marriage).

أَمْلَجَverb

1.
to suckle (mother)both
The mother suckled her child.

أملجته أمه — His mother suckled him.

مَلَجَةnoun

1.
a single suckboth
A single instance of sucking, especially of milk.

لا تحرم الملجة والملجتان — A single suckling and two sucklings do not prohibit (marriage).

مَلَجverb

1.
to suckboth
To suck something, like blood.
2.
to chewclassical
To chew something, like date pits.

فجعل مالك بن سنان يملج الدم بفيه من وجه رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، ثم ازدرده — So Malik bin Sinan began to suck the blood from the face of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, then he swallowed it.

مَلِيجnoun

1.
sucklingboth
A young child or animal that is being suckled.
2.
important personclassical
A distinguished or important person.

والمليج: الرضيع — And the maliij is the suckling.

والمليج: الجليل من الناس أيضا — And the maliij is also the distinguished person among people.

أَمْلَجadjective

1.
yellowishclassical
A complexion that is yellowish, neither black nor white, but in between.

وهو بينهما؛ يقال: ولدت فلانة غلاما فجاءت به أملج أي أصفر لا أبيض ولا أسود — And it is between them; it is said: So-and-so gave birth to a boy and he came out amlij, meaning yellowish, not white nor black.

أَمْلَجnoun

1.
a type of drugclassical
A type of medicinal substance named for its color.

والأملج: ضرب من العقاقير سمي بذلك للونه — And the amlij: a type of drug named so for its color.

أَمْلاجnoun

1.
date pitsclassical
The plural of 'amlaj', referring to date pits.

أبو زيد: والملج نوى المقل، وجمعه أملاج — Abu Zayd: And the mulj are the date pits, and its plural is amlaaj.

مَلَجverb

1.
to chewclassical
To chew something, like date pits.

وملج الرجل إذا لاك الملج — And the man mulj if he chews the mulj.

أَمْلُوجnoun

1.
date pitsclassical
The pits of the date fruit.
2.
leafy twigsclassical
Thin, leafy twigs of a tree, not broad like those of tamarisk or cypress.
3.
tender branchclassical
A tender, soft branch or shoot of a tree.
4.
fattening substanceclassical
Metaphorically, a substance that causes fattening.

سقط الأملوج ومات العسلوج — The amluuj fell and the young shoot died.

والأملوج: الغصن الناعم — And the amluuj: the tender branch.

سمى السمن نفسه أملوجا على سبيل الاستعارة — He named the fatness itself amluuj by way of metaphor.

أَمَالِيجnoun

1.
leafy twigsclassical
The plural of 'amluuj', referring to thin, leafy twigs.

والجمع الأماليج — And the plural is amaleej.

مَالِجnoun

1.
plastererclassical
One who plasters or applies mud, a Persian loanword.

والمالج: الذي يطين به، فارسي معرب — And the maalej: he who plasters with mud, a Persian loanword.

Parallel reading

ملج الصبي أمه ملجا وملجها إذا رضعها

The boy suckled his mother a suckling and he suckled her when he nursed her.

الملج تناول الشيء

The suckling is taking something.

وفي الصحاح: تناول الثدي بأدنى الفم

And in Al-Sihah: taking the teat with the edge of the mouth.

ورجل ملجان مصان: يرضع الإبل والغنم من ضروعها ولا يحلبها لئلا يسمع، وذلك من لؤمه

And a muljaan man, a suckler: he nurses the camels and sheep from their udders and does not milk them lest he be heard, and that is from his meanness.

وامتلج الفصيل ما في الضرع: امتصه

And the young camel sucked up what was in the udder: he absorbed it.

والإملاج: الإرضاع

And the imlaaj: the suckling.

لا تحرم الإملاجة ولا الإملاجتان ؛ يعني أن تمصه هي لبنها

A single suckling and two sucklings do not prohibit (marriage); meaning that she sucks her milk.

لا تحرم الملجة والملجتان، قال: الملج المص، والملجة المرة، والإملاجة المرة أيضا من أملجته أمه أي أرضعته

A single suckling and two sucklings do not prohibit (marriage), he said: Al-mulj is the sucking, and al-muljah is the single time, and al-imlaajah is also the single time from his mother suckling him, meaning she nursed him.

يعني أن المصة والمصتين لا يحرمان ما يحرمه الرضاع الكامل

Meaning that one suck and two sucks do not prohibit what full nursing prohibits.

فجعل مالك بن سنان يملج الدم بفيه من وجه رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، ثم ازدرده

So Malik bin Sinan began to suck the blood from the face of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, then he swallowed it.

ثم ازدرده أي مصه ثم ابتلعه

Then he swallowed it, meaning he sucked it then he swallowed it.

أذكرك ملج فلانة ، يعني امرأة كانت أرضعتهما

I remind you of the mulj of so-and-so, meaning a woman who had nursed them both.

والمليج: الرضيع

And the maliij: the suckling.

والمليج: الجليل من الناس أيضا

And the maliij: the distinguished person among people also.

وملج المرأة: نكحها كلمجها

And a woman's mulj: her sexual intercourse like her suckling.

والملج: السمر من الناس

And the mulj: the dark-skinned people.

أسود أملج، وهو اللعس

Black amlij, which is the dark-skinned.

وهو بينهما؛ يقال: ولدت فلانة غلاما فجاءت به أملج أي أصفر لا أبيض ولا أسود

And it is between them; it is said: So-and-so gave birth to a boy and he came out amlij, meaning yellowish, not white nor black.

والأملج: ضرب من العقاقير سمي بذلك للونه

And the amlij: a type of drug named so for its color.

والملج نوى المقل، وجمعه أملاج

And the mulj are the date pits, and its plural is amlaaj.

والملج نواة المقلة

And the mulj are the date pits.

وملج الرجل إذا لاك الملج

And the man mulj if he chews the mulj.

سقط الأملوج ومات العسلوج

The amluuj fell and the young shoot died.

والأملوج: ورق من أوراق الشجر كالعيدان، ليس بعريض كورق الطرفاء والسرو، والجمع الأماليج

And the amluuj: leaves from tree leaves like twigs, not broad like the leaves of tamarisk and cypress, and the plural is amaleej.

والأملوج: الغصن الناعم

And the amluuj: the tender branch.

هو العرق من عروق الشجر يغمس في الثرى ليلين

It is the root of the tree's roots that is dipped in the soil to soften.

هو ضرب من النبات ورقه كالعيدان

It is a type of plant whose leaves are like twigs.

سقط الأملوج من البكارة ، هو جمع بكر، وهو الفتي السمين من الإبل، أي سقط عنها ما علاها من السمن برعي الأملوج، فسمى السمن نفسه أملوجا على سبيل الاستعارة

The amluuj fell from the young camel, which is the plural of bikr, and it is the fat young camel, meaning the fatness that was on it fell off by grazing on the amluuj, so the fatness itself was named amluuj metaphorically.

والملج: الجداء الرضع

And the mulj: the suckling young goats.

والمالج: الذي يطين به، فارسي معرب

And the maalej: he who plasters with mud, a Persian loanword.