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جوظ

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a person who is large, corpulent, and often arrogant or ill-tempered. It can also refer to someone greedy, gluttonous, or boastful, and in some contexts, it denotes someone who is busy or striving.

Derived headwords

الجواظnoun
  1. 1.
    corpulent, bulkyboth

    Describing someone who is fleshy, coarse, stout, and large, often with a proud gait.

  2. 2.
    arrogant, haughtyboth

    Someone who is arrogant and coarse in demeanor.

  3. 3.
    gluttonous, greedyboth

    A person who eats excessively or is greedy.

  4. 4.
    wicked, evilclassical

    Describing someone who is wicked or evil.

  5. 5.
    short and pot-belliedclassical

    Referring to someone who is short and has a large belly.

  6. 6.
    collecting and hoardingclassical

    One who gathers wealth and prevents others from accessing it.

  7. 7.
    impatient, restlessclassical

    Someone who is impatient and lacks perseverance.

جاظverb
  1. 1.
    to be corpulentclassical

    To be fleshy, stout, and large.

  2. 2.
    to be arrogantclassical

    To be arrogant and coarse.

يجوظverb
  1. 1.
    to be corpulentclassical

    He is fleshy, stout, and large.

  2. 2.
    to be arrogantclassical

    He is arrogant and coarse.

جواظةnoun
  1. 1.
    gluttonyboth

    Excessive eating or greed.

  2. 2.
    wickednessclassical

    Evil or wickedness.

جعظريadjective
  1. 1.
    pompous, boastfulclassical

    Someone who is puffed up with pride or possessions they do not truly have.

جعظnoun
  1. 1.
    corpulence, arroganceclassical

    A state of being corpulent, arrogant, or boastful.

جعظارadjective
  1. 1.
    corpulent, arrogantclassical

    Describing someone who is corpulent, arrogant, and boastful.

جياظadjective
  1. 1.
    fat, unpleasant gaitclassical

    Describing a fat person with an unpleasant or awkward way of walking.

جياظnoun
  1. 1.
    fatness, unpleasantnessclassical

    The state of being fat and unpleasant.

جوظverb
  1. 1.
    to strive, to hurryclassical

    To strive, to make an effort, or to hurry.

جوضverb
  1. 1.
    to strive, to hurryclassical

    To strive, to make an effort, or to hurry.

تجوظverb
  1. 1.
    to strive, to hurryclassical

    To strive, to make an effort, or to hurry.

Parallel reading

الجواظ: الكثير اللحم الجافي الغليظ الضخم المختال في مشيته
Al-jawāẓ: the fleshy, coarse, stout, large one, who walks with arrogance.
وسيف غياظ لهم غياظا، ... يعلو به ذا العضل الجواظا
And a fierce sword for them, fiercely... with which he strikes the corpulent, muscular one.
الجواظ المتكبر الجافي
The arrogant, coarse one.
وقد جاظ يجوظ جوظا وجوظانا
And he became corpulent, becoming corpulent, with corpulence and stoutness.
ورجل جواظة: أكول
And a man of jawāẓah: a glutton.
يقال للرجل الطويل الجسيم الأكول الشروب البطر الكافر: جواظ جعظ جعظار
It is said of the tall, large, gluttonous, heavy-drinking, insolent, disbelieving man: he is jawāẓ, jaʿaẓ, jaʿaẓār.
أهل النار كل جعظري جواظ
The people of Hell are every pompous, corpulent one.
الجعظري الذي ينتفخ بما ليس عنده
The jaʿẓarī is one who puffs himself up with what he does not possess.
والجواظ: الجموع المنوع الذي جمع ومنع
And al-jawāẓ: the one who gathers and hoards, who collects and withholds.
رجل جياظ سمين سمج المشية
A fat man with an unpleasant gait.
الجواظ الضجر وقلة الصبر على الأمور
Al-jawāẓ: the impatient one and one lacking patience in matters.
ارفق بجواظك، ولا يغني جواظك عنك شيئا
Be gentle with your impatient one, and your impatience will not avail you anything.
وجوظ الرجل وجوظ وتجوظ: سعى
And jawẓa al-rajul, jawẓa, and tajawẓa: he strove.