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الفج

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to openings, gaps, and wide passages, whether physical spaces like mountain passes or metaphorical ones like speech. It also extends to concepts of speed, effort, and even the ripeness of fruit.

Derived headwords

الفَجّnoun
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    Passage, gapboth

    A wide road or passage between two mountains.

الفِجَاجnoun
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    Passagesboth

    Plural of الفَجّ, referring to wide passages or mountain passes.

أفَجَverb
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    To take the passclassical

    To traverse or take the wide passage between mountains.

الفَجّnoun
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    Unripe fruitclassical

    Refers to unripe or raw fruits, particularly watermelon.

الفِجَاجَةnoun
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    Unripe fruitclassical

    Similar to الفَجّ, denoting unripe fruits.

فَجْجَاءadjective
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    Bowstring farclassical

    Describes a bow whose string is far from its core or belly.

مُنْفَجَةadjective
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    Bowstring farclassical

    Similar to فَجْجَاء, describing a bow with a distant string.

فَجْجَهاverb
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    To pull string awayclassical

    To pull the string of a bow away from its core.

أفْجَجَverb
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    To spread legsclassical

    To spread one's legs apart.

مُتَفَاجّاًadverb
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    Spreading legsclassical

    In a state of having one's legs spread apart.

تَفَاجَأَverb
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    To spread legsclassical

    To spread one's legs apart.

أفْجَجَverb
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    To speed upclassical

    To move quickly or hasten.

أفْجَجَ النَّعامَةُverb
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    Ostrich to runclassical

    When an ostrich runs or moves swiftly.

أفْجَجَ الأَرْضَverb
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    To plow deeplyclassical

    To plow the land with a deep and severe furrow.

أفْجَجٌadjective
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    Wide-leggedclassical

    A man with wide-spread legs, a condition considered ugly.

الفَجْفَجُadjective
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    Talkative, boastfulclassical

    A person who talks excessively or boasts about things they don't possess.

الفَجْجُnoun
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    Slowness, heavinessclassical

    Refers to people who are slow, heavy, or cumbersome.

الإفْجِيجُnoun
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    Valleyboth

    A valley, which can be wide or narrow and deep.

الفَجَّةُnoun
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    Opening, gapboth

    A space, opening, or gap.

مُفَجٌّadjective
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    Arched hoofclassical

    Describes a hoof that is arched or domed.

Parallel reading

الفَجّ: الطريق الواسع بين جبلين، كالفجاج، بالضم.
Al-Fajj: The wide road between two mountains, like Al-Fijaj, with dammah.
وأفج: سلكه.
And afaja: he traversed it.
والفج، بالكسر: النيء من الفواكه، كالفجاجة، بالفتح، والبطيخ الشامي.
And al-fajj, with kasrah: the unripe of fruits, like al-fijajah, with fatha, and the Syrian watermelon.
وقوس فجاء ومنفجة: بان وترها عن كبدها.
And a bow fajaa' and munfajah: its string is distant from its belly.
وفججتها: رفعت وترها (عن كبدها) ، و ما بين رجلي: فتحت، كأفججت، وهو يمشي مفاجا، وقد تفاج وأفج، و: أسرع، و النعامة: رمت بصومها، و الأرض بالفدان: شقها شقا منكرا.
And I fajajtuha: I raised its string (from its belly), and between my legs: I opened them, as ifajjajtu, and he walks mutafajjan, and he has tafaja and afaja, and: he hastened, and the ostrich: it ran swiftly, and the land with the plow: I split it a severe splitting.
ورجل أفج، بين الفجج، وهو أقبح من الفحج والفجفج كفدفد وهدهد وخلخال: الكثير الكلام، المتشبع بما ليس عنده.
And a man afajj, with wide legs, and it is uglier than fahj, and al-fajfaj like fafdad, huda-hud, and khalkhal: the much-talking, who claims what he does not have.
والفجج، بضمتين: الثقلاء.
And al-fajaj, with two dammahs: the slow ones.
والإفجيج، بالكسر: الوادي، أو الواسع، والضيق العميق، ضد.
And al-ifjeej, with kasrah: the valley, or the wide, and the narrow deep, its opposite.
والفجة، بالضم: الفرجة.
And al-fajjah, with dammah: the opening.
وحافر مفج: مقبب.
And a hoof mifajj: arched.