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جظظ

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes someone who is large, stout, and corpulent, often with negative connotations of being gluttonous, arrogant, and ungrateful. It can also refer to the act of chasing or driving away.

Derived headwords

جَظّadjective
  1. 1.
    corpulent, stoutboth

    Describing a person who is large, stout, and heavy-bodied, often with a short stature.

  2. 2.
    arrogant, proudclassical

    Characterized by self-importance and arrogance.

الجَظّnoun
  1. 1.
    corpulent personboth

    A person who is large, stout, and heavy-bodied.

  2. 2.
    arrogant personclassical

    An arrogant and self-important individual.

الجَوَاظnoun
  1. 1.
    large, corpulent personclassical

    A person who is tall, large, and corpulent, characterized by excessive eating and drinking.

الجَعْظَارnoun
  1. 1.
    arrogant, proud personclassical

    An arrogant, proud, and self-important person.

الجَعْظnoun
  1. 1.
    arrogant personclassical

    A person who is great in their own estimation, arrogant and self-important.

جَظَّverb
  1. 1.
    to be corpulentboth

    To become large, stout, and heavy-bodied, especially with shortness.

  2. 2.
    to be arrogantclassical

    To be arrogant and self-important.

  3. 3.
    to chase awayclassical

    To drive away or chase off.

جَظَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    to drive him awayclassical

    To chase him away or expel him.

يَجِظُّverb
  1. 1.
    to run fastclassical

    To run swiftly or to move quickly.

يَعِظُverb
  1. 1.
    to run fastclassical

    To run swiftly or to move quickly.

يَلْعَظُverb
  1. 1.
    to run fastclassical

    To run swiftly or to move quickly.

Parallel reading

رجل جظ: ضخم.
A corpulent man: large.
أبغضكم إلي الجظ الجعظ
The most hated of you to me is the corpulent, the arrogant.
الجظ والجواظ الطويل الجسيم الأكول الشروب البطر الكفور
The corpulent and the large are the tall, the massive, the gluttonous, the heavy drinker, the ungrateful, the disbeliever.
وهو الجعظار أيضا.
And he is also the arrogant one.
كل جعظ جظ مستكبر مناع
Every arrogant, corpulent one, a proud hoarder.
ما الجظ؟ قال الضخم
What is Al-Jazh? He said: The large one.
ما الجعظ؟ قال: العظيم في نفسه.
What is Al-Ja'z? He said: The one who is great in his own estimation.
جظ الرجل إذا سمن مع قصره
The man became corpulent if he grew fat with shortness.
وقال بعضهم: الضخم الكثير اللحم.
And some of them said: The large, fleshy one.
جظه وشظه وأره إذا طرده.
He drove him away, he chased him off, and he expelled him if he was driven away.
فلان يجظ ويعظ ويلعظ: كله في العدو.
So-and-so runs fast, and runs fast, and runs fast: all of it is in running.