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البجح

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of joy, happiness, and exultation. It describes the state of being pleased and the act of making someone else pleased or boastful.

Derived headwords

البَجْحnoun
  1. 1.
    Joyboth

    The state of being happy or delighted.

بَجِحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be joyfulboth

    To feel or express happiness and delight.

  2. 2.
    to be pleasedclassical

    To be satisfied or content with something.

بَجِحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be pleasedclassical

    To be satisfied or content with something.

بَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to make joyfulboth

    To cause someone to be happy or delighted.

  2. 2.
    to pleaseboth

    To make someone happy or satisfied.

تَبَجَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to be boastfulboth

    To express excessive pride or self-satisfaction.

  2. 2.
    to exultboth

    To show or feel triumphant elation or jubilation.

تَبْجِيحnoun
  1. 1.
    Causing joyboth

    The act of making someone happy or delighted.

  2. 2.
    Pleasingclassical

    The act of making someone satisfied or content.

Parallel reading

البَجْحُ، مُحَرَّكَةً: الفَرَحُ.
Al-bajhu, with vowel movement: joy.
وَبَجِحَ بِهِ، كَفَرِحَ، وَكَمَنَعَ ضَعِيفَةً.
And he was pleased with it, like 'faraha', and like 'mana'a' (weak).
وَبَجَّحْتُهُ تَبْجِيحًا فَتَبَجَّحَ.
And I made him pleased with exultation, so he became boastful.