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هجء

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concepts of satiation, appeasement, and the act of eating or consuming. It also extends to meanings related to stopping or ceasing, and in a derived sense, to foolishness or being slow-witted.

Derived headwords

هَجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    to be satiatedboth

    To become satisfied or have one's hunger subside.

  2. 2.
    to eatboth

    To consume food.

  3. 3.
    to fillboth

    To fill one's stomach.

  4. 4.
    to restrainclassical

    To restrain camels so they can graze.

هَجْءnoun
  1. 1.
    satiationclassical

    The state of being satiated or having hunger subside.

  2. 2.
    eatingclassical

    The act of eating food.

  3. 3.
    fillingclassical

    The act of filling the stomach.

هُجُوءnoun
  1. 1.
    satiationclassical

    The state of being satiated or having hunger subside.

  2. 2.
    eatingclassical

    The act of eating food.

  3. 3.
    fillingclassical

    The act of filling the stomach.

أَهْجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    to appease hungerboth

    To cause hunger to subside or be appeased.

  2. 2.
    to give foodboth

    To provide food to someone.

  3. 3.
    to payclassical

    To pay someone their due right.

هَجِئَverb
  1. 1.
    to be hungryclassical

    To feel intense hunger.

هَجْأَةnoun
  1. 1.
    foolclassical

    A foolish or unintelligent person.

الهِجْأnoun
  1. 1.
    what one was inclassical

    Anything that one was involved in but has now ceased or been cut off from.

تَهَجَّأَverb
  1. 1.
    to spell outboth

    To pronounce or recite letters of a word sequentially.

Parallel reading

هَجَأَ جوعه، كمنع، هجئا وهجوءا: سكن وذهب
His hunger subsided, like 'man'a', with 'hajan' and 'hujoo'an': it became still and went away.
و الطعام: أكله
And food: he ate it.
و بطنه: ملأه
And his stomach: he filled it.
و الإبل: كفها لترعى، كأهجأها
And the camels: he restrained them to graze, like 'ahja'aha'.
وهجئ، كفرح: التهب جوعه
And he was hungry, like 'farah': his hunger flared up.
وأهجأ جوعه: أذهبه
And he appeased his hunger: he made it go away.
و حقه: أداه إليه
And his right: he paid it to him.
و الشيء: أطعمه
And the thing: he fed him with it.
والهجأ، محركة: كل ما كنت فيه فانقطع عنك
And 'al-hija', with movement: everything that you were in but has been cut off from you.
والهجأة، كهمزة: الأحمق
And 'al-haj'ah', like 'hamzah': the fool.
وتهجأ الحرف: تهجاه
And he spelled out the letter: he recited it letter by letter.