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الهجود

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concepts of sleeping and waking, with related meanings of resting, praying at night, and rousing someone. It also extends to specific actions like a camel resting its head and a verbal command for a horse.

Derived headwords

هَجَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to sleepboth

    To be in a state of sleep.

  2. 2.
    to pray at nightclassical

    To perform the night prayer, often implying staying awake for it.

  3. 3.
    to be quiet/stillclassical

    To be motionless or still, like in sleep.

هُجُودnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepboth

    The state of sleeping.

تَهَجَّدَverb
  1. 1.
    to stay awakeclassical

    To remain awake, often for the purpose of prayer or vigilance.

  2. 2.
    to pray at nightclassical

    To engage in night worship or prayer.

تَهَجُّدnoun
  1. 1.
    night prayerclassical

    The act of praying or staying awake for worship at night.

أَهْجَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to make sleepclassical

    To cause someone or something to sleep.

أَنَامَverb
  1. 1.
    to make sleepclassical

    To cause someone to sleep; to lull to sleep.

هَاجَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to pray at nightclassical

    To pray during the night.

هَاجِدnoun
  1. 1.
    sleeperclassical

    One who is sleeping.

  2. 2.
    worshipper at nightclassical

    One who prays or worships at night.

هَجَّدَverb
  1. 1.
    to wake upclassical

    To rouse someone from sleep; to awaken.

  2. 2.
    to make sleepclassical

    To cause someone to sleep.

هَجْدَةnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepclassical

    A period of sleep.

هَجْدnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepclassical

    The act or state of sleeping.

هَجَدnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepclassical

    The state of being asleep.

هَجَدverb
  1. 1.
    to command (horse)classical

    To utter a command or call to a horse.

هَجَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to find sleepingclassical

    To find someone or something in a state of sleep.

هَجَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to rest (camel)classical

    For a camel to lay its neck and chest (جران) on the ground.

تَهْجِيدnoun
  1. 1.
    awakeningclassical

    The act of waking someone up.

  2. 2.
    making sleepclassical

    The act of causing someone to sleep.

Parallel reading

الهجود: النوم
Al-hujood: sleep.
كالتهجد
like al-tahajjud (staying awake/praying at night).
وبالفتح: المصلي بالليل
And with the fatḥa (hájid): the one who prays at night.
ج: بالضم، وهجد
Plural: with the ḍamma (hujood), and hajada (sleep).
وتهجد: استيقظ
And tahajjada: to wake up.
كهجد، ضد
like hajada (sleep), its opposite.
وأهجد: نام
And ahjada: to make sleep.
وأنام
And anaama (to make sleep).
والرجل: وجده نائما
And al-rajul (verb): to find him sleeping.
والبعير: ألقى جرانه بالأرض، كهجد
And al-ba'eer (verb): to lay its neck on the ground, like hajada.
وهجده تهجيدا: أيقظه
And hajjadahu tahjeedan: to awaken him.
ونومه، ضد
And his sleep, its opposite.
وهجد: زجر للفرس
And hajada (verb): a call to a horse.