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التحميج

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes intense visual focus, often associated with negative emotions like anger or fear. It also encompasses physical manifestations such as sunken eyes, facial changes, and emaciation, as well as referring to young animals.

Derived headwords

اَلْتَحْمِيجُnoun
  1. 1.
    intense staringboth

    The act of looking intensely and fixedly at something, often with wide-open eyes.

  2. 2.
    sunken eyesclassical

    A condition where the eyes appear deep-set or hollowed.

  3. 3.
    facial change from angerclassical

    A transformation in facial appearance due to intense anger.

  4. 4.
    emaciationclassical

    A state of being excessively thin or wasted away.

حَمَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to stare intenselyclassical

    To look fixedly and intensely, often with wide-open eyes, possibly due to fear or a threat.

  2. 2.
    to become emaciatedclassical

    To grow thin or wasted.

حُمُوجٌnoun
  1. 1.
    young of gazellesclassical

    The young offspring of gazelles or similar animals.

Parallel reading

التحميج: شدة النظر
Intense staring: extreme looking.
وغؤور العين
and sunkenness of the eye.
وتغير في الوجه من الغضب
and a change in the face from anger.
أو إدامة النظر مع فتح العينين
or prolonged staring with open eyes.
وإدارة الحدقة فزعا أو وعيدا
and rolling the pupil in fear or threat.
والهزال
and emaciation.
والحموج: الصغير من ولد الظبي ونحوه
And al-humūj: the young of a gazelle's offspring and the like.