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بجح

Root entry · 22 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the emotion of joy and happiness, often with connotations of pride, boasting, or being pleased with something. It can also describe the act of making someone else happy or proud.

Derived headwords

بَجَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be joyfulboth

    To feel happiness and delight.

بَجَحٌnoun
  1. 1.
    joyboth

    The state of being joyful or happy.

بَجَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be pleased withboth

    To feel satisfaction or contentment with something.

بَجِحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be pleased withboth

    An alternative form indicating pleasure or satisfaction with something.

بَجَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be pleased withclassical

    A weak dialectal form indicating pleasure or satisfaction with something.

اِبْتَجَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be joyfulboth

    To feel great joy and happiness.

تَبَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to boastboth

    To speak with excessive pride or self-satisfaction, often about something one possesses or has achieved.

تَبَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be arrogantboth

    To act in a proud or haughty manner, often due to self-admiration.

تَبَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to bragboth

    To talk boastfully or excessively about something, often in a way that is perceived as empty or exaggerated.

بَجَّاحadjective
  1. 1.
    joyfulboth

    One who is very happy and delighted.

أَبْجَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to make happyboth

    To cause someone to feel joy or happiness.

بَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to make happyboth

    To cause someone to feel joy or happiness.

بَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to make proudboth

    To cause someone to feel proud or to elevate their self-esteem.

تَبْجِيحnoun
  1. 1.
    making happyboth

    The act of causing someone to be happy.

بَاجِحadjective
  1. 1.
    proudboth

    Someone who is great or esteemed, often from a prominent family.

بُجَّحadjective
  1. 1.
    proudboth

    A plural form referring to people who are great or esteemed.

بُجُحadjective
  1. 1.
    proudboth

    A plural form referring to people who are great or esteemed.

تَبَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to brag aboutboth

    To boast or take pride in something.

تَمَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to boastboth

    To speak boastfully or with excessive pride, similar to تبجح.

تَمَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be arrogantboth

    To act in a proud or haughty manner, similar to تبجح.

تَمَزَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to joke aboutboth

    To speak about something in a lighthearted or jesting manner, often with an underlying sense of pride or admiration.

بَجَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be pleasedboth

    To feel pleased or happy.

Parallel reading

ثم استمر بها شيحان مبتجح ... بالبين عنك بما يرآك شنآنا
Then Shihhan continued with it, greatly rejoicing... with separation from you because of what he sees of hatred.
بجح بالشيء، وبجح به أيضا، بالفتح: لغة ضعيفة فيه.
He was pleased with the thing, and also pleased with it, with a fatha: a weak dialectal form for it.
وبجحني فبجحت أي فرحني ففرحت
And it made me happy, so I became happy, meaning it delighted me, so I became delighted.
وقيل: عظمني فعظمت نفسي عندي.
And it was said: it made me feel great, so my self-esteem increased.
وبجحته أنا تبجيحا فتبجح أي أفرحته ففرح.
And I made him happy with a making happy, so he became happy, meaning I delighted him, so he became delighted.
ورجل باجح: عظيم من قوم بجح وبجح
And a proud man: great from a people who are proud and esteemed.
عليك سيب الخلفاء البجح
Upon you is the bounty of the esteemed Caliphs.
وفلان يتبجح علينا ويتمجح إذا كان يهذي به إعجابا
And so-and-so boasts to us and brags when he talks nonsense about it with admiration.
وكذلك إذا تمزح به.
And likewise if he jokes about it.
فلان يتبجح ويتمجح أي يفتخر ويباهي بشيء ما
So-and-so boasts and brags, meaning he is proud and shows off with something.
وقيل: يتعظم
And it was said: he acts arrogantly.
وما الفقر عن أرض العشيرة ساقنا ... إليك، ولكنا بقرباك نبجح
Poverty did not drive us from the land of our tribe... to you, but rather we rejoice in your closeness.