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حاج

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of needing or requiring something, often in the context of sustenance or necessity. It also extends to the idea of land producing thorny plants.

Derived headwords

حَاجَverb
  1. 1.
    to need, requireboth

    To be in a state of need or requirement for something.

يَحُوجُverb
  1. 1.
    to need, requireboth

    The present tense form of the verb meaning to need or require.

أَحَاجَverb
  1. 1.
    to produce thornsclassical

    Said of land when it produces thorny plants.

أُحِيجَتْverb
  1. 1.
    to produce thornsclassical

    The passive form, indicating that the land has produced thorny plants.

الحَاجّnoun
  1. 1.
    thornsclassical

    Thorny plants, weeds, or brambles that grow on the land.

حُيَيْجnoun
  1. 1.
    small thornsclassical

    The diminutive form of 'al-ḥājj', referring to small thorny plants.

Parallel reading

حاج يحيج: كحاج يحوج.
Ḥāja yuḥīju: ka-ḥāja yaḥūju.
وأحيجت الأرض وأحاجت: أنبتت الحاج، أي: الشوك، وتصغيره: حييج، فهو يائي.
And the land was made to produce thorns and produced thorns: it grew thorns, meaning: brambles, and its diminutive is ḥuyayj, and it is yā'ī.