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الدعج

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes the intense blackness and spaciousness of the eye, often associated with beauty. It also extends to meanings related to madness and specific lunar phases.

Derived headwords

الدَّعَجnoun
  1. 1.
    blackness and spaciousness of the eyeboth

    Refers to the intense blackness of the pupil combined with the large size of the eye, considered a mark of beauty.

الدَّعْجَةnoun
  1. 1.
    blackness and spaciousness of the eyeboth

    Similar to الدعج, it denotes the dark, wide appearance of the eye, a feature of beauty.

أَدْعَجadjective
  1. 1.
    very blackboth

    Describes something, particularly the eye, as being intensely black.

الدَّعْجَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    madnessclassical

    Refers to a state of insanity or madness.

  2. 2.
    end of the lunar monthclassical

    Denotes the last phase of the lunar month, specifically the twenty-eighth night.

دعجname
  1. 1.
    proper nameclassical

    A proper name, possibly for a person or place.

مَدْعُوجadjective
  1. 1.
    madclassical

    Describes a person as being insane or mad.

Parallel reading

الدعج، محركة، والدعجة، بالضم: سواد العين مع سعتها.
Ad-da'aj, with harakah, and ad-da'jah, with dammah: the blackness of the eye with its spaciousness.
والأدعج: الأسود.
And al-ad'aj: the black.
والدعجاء: الجنون، وأول المحاق، وهي ليلة ثمانية وعشرين.
And ad-da'jaa': madness, and the beginning of the waning crescent, which is the twenty-eighth night.
وكزبير: علم.
And like Zubayr: a proper name.
والمدعوج: المجنون.
And al-mad'ooj: the madman.