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محج

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to actions of scraping, rubbing, churning, and delaying. It also extends to descriptions of difficult or distant things, and names of horses.

Derived headwords

مَحَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to scrape offboth

    To scrape or peel something off, such as the skin from meat.

  2. 2.
    to rubboth

    To rub or work a rope to make it pliable.

  3. 3.
    to churnboth

    To churn milk to make butter.

  4. 4.
    to have intercourseclassical

    To engage in sexual intercourse.

  5. 5.
    to lieclassical

    To tell a falsehood.

  6. 6.
    to wipeboth

    To wipe something from something else.

مَحْجٌnoun
  1. 1.
    scrapingclassical

    The act of scraping or peeling.

  2. 2.
    rubbingclassical

    The act of rubbing or working something.

  3. 3.
    churningclassical

    The act of churning milk.

تَمْحَجُverb
  1. 1.
    to blow away dustclassical

    Said of the wind, it blows away dust, even taking some of the earth's surface.

مَاحَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to procrastinateboth

    To delay or put off an action or decision.

مُمَاحَجَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    procrastinationboth

    The act of delaying or putting off.

مُحَاجٌّnoun
  1. 1.
    procrastinationclassical

    The act of delaying or putting off.

مُحْوَجٌّadjective
  1. 1.
    distantclassical

    Describing a difficult or distant mountain pass.

مِحْجٌّname
  1. 1.
    horse nameclassical

    The name of a horse belonging to Malik ibn 'Awf al-Nasri.

مِحْجٌّname
  1. 1.
    horse nameclassical

    The name of Abu Jahl's horse.

Parallel reading

محج اللحم، كمنع: قشره
Meat is scraped, as in 'man'a: its skin is peeled off.
والحبل: دلكه ليلين
And a rope: it is rubbed to make it pliable.
واللبن: مخضه
And milk: it is churned.
ومسح شيئا عن شيء
And to wipe something from something else.
والريح تمحج الأرض: تذهب بالتراب حتى تتناول من أدمتها ترابها
And the wind sweeps the land: it carries away the dust until it takes some of its surface soil.
وماحجه مماحجة ومحاجا: ماطله
And he procrastinated with him, a procrastination and delaying: he delayed him.
وعقبة محوج: بعيدة
And a difficult pass: distant.
وككتاب: فرس مالك بن عوف النصري
And like 'kitab': the horse of Malik ibn 'Awf al-Nasri.
وفرس أبي جهل، لعنه الله
And the horse of Abu Jahl, may God curse him.