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زجره

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of deterring, forbidding, or driving away. It extends to concepts of omen-taking, urging animals forward, and specific descriptions of animals exhibiting certain behaviors or conditions.

Derived headwords

زَجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to forbidboth

    To prevent someone from doing something; to prohibit or deter.

  2. 2.
    to scoldboth

    To reprimand or rebuke someone harshly.

  3. 3.
    to drive awayboth

    To cause something or someone to leave; to repel.

ازْدَجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to be deterredboth

    To be prevented from doing something; to refrain due to prohibition or warning.

  2. 2.
    to take an omenclassical

    To interpret a sign or event as an omen, often a bad one.

فَانْزَجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    so he was deterredboth

    The past tense verb indicating that someone was prevented or refrained from an action.

ازْدَجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to deterboth

    To prevent or discourage someone from acting.

  2. 2.
    to take an omenclassical

    To interpret a sign or event as an omen, often a bad one.

زَجَرَ الكلبَverb
  1. 1.
    to shoo a dogboth

    To make a sound or gesture to drive away a dog.

زَجَرَ الطيرَverb
  1. 1.
    to take an omen from birdsclassical

    To interpret the flight or behavior of birds as an omen, often a bad one.

تَطَيَّرَverb
  1. 1.
    to take an omenclassical

    To believe that something is a sign of future good or bad luck.

نَهَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to scoldboth

    To rebuke or reprimand someone sharply.

زَجَرَ البعيرَverb
  1. 1.
    to urge a camelboth

    To drive or urge a camel forward with sounds or gestures.

زَجَرَ الناقةَ بما في بطنهاverb
  1. 1.
    to cause a she-camel to miscarryclassical

    To cause a pregnant she-camel to abort its fetus.

الزَّجْرnoun
  1. 1.
    forbiddingboth

    The act of prohibiting or deterring someone from doing something.

  2. 2.
    omen-takingclassical

    The practice of interpreting signs or events as omens.

  3. 3.
    divinationclassical

    The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.

العِيافَةnoun
  1. 1.
    divinationclassical

    A form of divination, often by observing the flight of birds or drawing lines.

التَّكَهُّنnoun
  1. 1.
    divinationboth

    The practice of predicting the future or discovering hidden knowledge.

زَجُورnoun
  1. 1.
    she-camel that abortsclassical

    A she-camel that aborts its young.

  2. 2.
    pregnant she-camelclassical

    A pregnant she-camel.

بَعِيرٌ أَزْجَرadjective
  1. 1.
    camel with spinal defectclassical

    A camel whose vertebrae are misaligned or defective due to illness or injury.

الزَّاجِرَاتnoun
  1. 1.
    those that driveclassical

    Feminine plural noun referring to entities that drive or propel, specifically angels driving clouds.

زَجْرًاnoun
  1. 1.
    drivingclassical

    The act of driving or propelling, used here as an adverbial accusative.

Parallel reading

زَجَرَهُ: مَنَعَهُ وَنَهَاهُ
He forbade him: he prevented him and prohibited him.
كَازْدَجَرَ فَانْزَجَرَ
He sought to deter him, so he was deterred.
وَالْكَلْبَ وَبِهِ: نَهْنَهَهُ
And the dog and with it: he shooed it away.
وَالطَّيْرَ: تَفَاءَلَ بِهِ، فَتَطَيَّرَ، فَنَهَرَهُ، كَازْدَجَرَهُ
And the bird: he took an omen from it, so he became superstitious, so he rebuked it, as if he deterred it.
وَالْبَعِيرَ: سَاقَهُ
And the camel: he drove it.
وَالنَّاقَةَ بِمَا فِي بَطْنِهَا: رَمَتْ بِهِ
And the she-camel with what was in her belly: she aborted it.
وَالزَّجْرُ: الْعِيَافَةُ، وَالتَّكَهُّنُ
And Az-zajr: is divination, and fortune-telling.
وَسَمَكٌ عِظَامٌ، وَيُحَرَّكُ ج: زُجُورٌ
And fish bones, and it is moved, plural: zujur.
وَبَعِيرٌ أَزْجَرُ: فِي فِقَارِهِ انْخِزَالٌ مِنْ دَاءٍ أَوْ دَبَارٍ
And a camel azjar: in its spine there is a defect from illness or injury.
وَقَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى {فَالزَّاجِرَاتِ زَجْرًا}
And His saying, Exalted is He: {By those that drive, driving}.
أَي: الْمَلَائِكَةُ تَزْجُرُ السَّحَابَ
Meaning: the angels drive the clouds.
وَالزَّجُورُ: النَّاقَةُ الَّتِي تَعْرِفُ بِعَيْنِهَا وَتُنْكِرُ بَأَنْفِهَا، وَالَّتِي لَا تُدِرُّ حَتَّى تُزْجَرَ، وَالنَّاقَةُ الْعُلُوقُ
And az-zajur: is the she-camel that recognizes by her eye and denies by her nose, and she that does not lactate until she is urged, and the pregnant she-camel.