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هدج

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a slow, weak, or unsteady gait, often associated with old age or infirmity. It also extends to concepts of hurried or trembling movement, a mother's yearning cry for her young, and the sound of wind.

Derived headwords

هَدَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to walk slowly and weaklyboth

    To walk with a slow, unsteady, or weak gait, often due to age or frailty.

  2. 2.
    to hasten involuntarilyclassical

    To quicken one's pace or move faster than intended, often with a slight tremor.

  3. 3.
    to trembleclassical

    To move with a trembling or shaking motion.

الهَدَجnoun
  1. 1.
    slow, weak walkboth

    The act of walking slowly and with weakness, characteristic of an old person or someone infirm.

الهَدَجانnoun
  1. 1.
    slow, weak walkboth

    A slow and weak manner of walking, often associated with the gait of an elderly person.

  2. 2.
    hastening paceclassical

    A quickening of the pace, moving faster than intended, sometimes with a trembling quality.

  3. 3.
    trembling movementclassical

    A movement characterized by trembling or shaking.

الهَدَجَانnoun
  1. 1.
    slow, weak walkboth

    A slow and weak manner of walking, often associated with the gait of an elderly person.

  2. 2.
    hastening paceclassical

    A quickening of the pace, moving faster than intended, sometimes with a trembling quality.

  3. 3.
    trembling movementclassical

    A movement characterized by trembling or shaking.

الهَدَاجnoun
  1. 1.
    slow, weak walkboth

    A slow, weak, or unsteady gait, particularly that of an elderly person.

  2. 2.
    tremblingclassical

    A state of trembling or instability in one's walk.

هَدُوجadjective
  1. 1.
    fast-boilingclassical

    Describing water that is boiling rapidly or vigorously.

استَهْدَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to move with tremblingclassical

    To move with a trembling or unsteady gait, especially when running or moving quickly.

  2. 2.
    to hastenclassical

    To move quickly or hasten, often in a state of alarm or urgency.

هَدْجَدَجnoun
  1. 1.
    ostrichclassical

    A male ostrich, named for its trembling or unsteady gait.

هَدَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to yearn for offspringclassical

    A female camel's (or other animal's) yearning cry for her young.

  2. 2.
    to make a moaning soundclassical

    To make a moaning or groaning sound, like a wind that moans.

تَهَدَّجَverb
  1. 1.
    to yearn for offspringclassical

    To make a yearning sound for one's young, like a camel.

مِهْداجadjective
  1. 1.
    yearning (for young)classical

    Describing a female animal, especially a camel, that makes a yearning sound for its young.

  2. 2.
    moaning (wind)classical

    Describing a wind that makes a moaning or groaning sound.

الهَدْجَةnoun
  1. 1.
    yearning cryclassical

    The yearning cry of a camel for its young.

  2. 2.
    moaning soundclassical

    A moaning or groaning sound, especially of the wind.

تَهَدُّجnoun
  1. 1.
    broken voiceclassical

    A voice that is broken or intermittent, characterized by trembling or pauses.

تَهَدَّجَverb
  1. 1.
    to speak with a broken voiceclassical

    To speak with a voice that is intermittent or trembling.

الهُودَجnoun
  1. 1.
    litter (for women)both

    A covered litter, typically made of wood and reeds, carried by camels or horses for women to travel in.

هَدَاجname
  1. 1.
    name of a leaderclassical

    A proper name, mentioned as the name of a leader (e.g., of Al-A'sha) or a tribal figure.

  2. 2.
    name of a horseclassical

    A proper name given to a horse.

بَنُو هَدَاجname
  1. 1.
    tribe nameclassical

    The name of a tribe or clan.

Parallel reading

مشي رويد في ضعف.
Walking slowly with weakness.
والهدجان: مشية الشيخ ونحو ذلك.
And Al-Hadjān: the gait of an old man and the like.
وهدج الشيخ في مشيته يهدج هدجا وهدجانا وهداجا: قارب الخطو وأسرع من غير إرادة؛
And the old man walked with his gait, he walks with Hadağan and Hadājan and Hadājan: he quickened his steps and sped up unintentionally;
هدجانا لم يكن من مشيتي، ... هدجان الرأل خلف الهيقت
A Hadajān that was not from my walk, ... the Hadajān of the chick behind the mother bird
هدج إذا اضطرب مشيه من الكبر، وهو الهداج.
He walks with Hadağ when his gait is unsteady from old age, and that is Al-Hadāj.
إلى أن ابتهج بها الصغير وهدج إليها الكبير.
Until the young rejoiced in it and the old man walked towards it.
الهدجان، بالتحريك: مشية الشيخ؛ ومنه الحديث: فإذا هو شيخ يهدج.
Al-Hadjān, with vowelization: the gait of an old man; and from it is the Hadith: 'And behold, he was an old man walking with a weak gait.'
وقدر هدوج: سريعة الغليان.
And a pot that is Hadūj: fast-boiling.
وهدج الظليم يهدج هدجانا واستهدج، وهو مشي وسعي وعدو، كل ذلك إذا كان في ارتعاش، فهو هداج وهدجدج؛
And the ostrich walks with Hadağ, it walks with Hadağanan and Istahdağ, which is walking, running, and racing, all of that when it is with trembling, then it is Hadāj and Hadjadaj;
أصك نغضا لا يني مستهدجا
Stiff-necked, not ceasing to move with a trembling gait
والهدجدج: الظليم، سمي بذلك لهدجانه في مشيه؛
And Al-Hadjadaj: the ostrich, so named because of its unsteady gait in walking;
هدجت الناقة وتهدجت: حنت على ولدها، وهي ناقة مهداج، والاسم الهدجة، وكذلك الريح التي لها حنين.
The she-camel cried with Hadağ and Tahaddaj: she yearned for her young, and she is a Mihdāj she-camel, and the name is Al-Hadjah, and likewise the wind that has a yearning sound.
وهدجت الريح هدجا أي حنت وصوتت؛ وريح مهداج.
And the wind made a Hadağ: it yearned and made a sound; and a Mihdāj wind.
والهدجة: رزمة الناقة وحنينها على ولدها.
And Al-Hadjah: the she-camel's lowing and her yearning for her young.
وناقة هدوج ومهداج.
And a Hadūj and Mihdāj she-camel.
وتهدج الصوت: تقطعه في ارتعاش.
And the voice Tahaddaj: it is broken with trembling.
والتهدج: تقطع الصوت.
And At-Tahaddaj: the breaking of the voice.
وتثانوا عليه: أظهروا ألطافه.
And they showed him kindness: they displayed their favors.
والهُودَج: من مراكب النساء مقبب وغير مقبب، وفي المحكم: يصنع من العصي ثم يجعل فوقه الخشب فيقبب.
And Al-Hūdağ: a conveyance for women, domed and not domed, and in Al-Muḥkam: it is made of sticks and then wood is placed on top of it and it is domed.
وهدجت الناقة: ارتفع سنامها وضخم فصار عليها منه شبه الهودج.
And the she-camel's hump Hadağ: her hump rose and became large, so that it resembled a Hūdağ on her.
شقيق وحرمي أراقا دماءنا، ... وفارس هداج أشاب النواصيا
Shiqquq and Ḥurmayyi shed our blood, ... and a Hadāj warrior whitened the forelocks