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الهجوع

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of sleep, particularly at night. It also extends to related ideas like a light nap, the passage of night, and even metaphorical uses related to unawareness or breaking one's hunger.

Derived headwords

الهُجوعnoun
  1. 1.
    sleeping at nightboth

    The act of sleeping during the night.

التهجاعnoun
  1. 1.
    sleeping at nightboth

    The act of sleeping during the night.

  2. 2.
    light napclassical

    A light or brief sleep.

هَجَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to sleep at nightboth

    To sleep during the night.

هَجْعnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepersclassical

    People who sleep.

هُجوعnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepersclassical

    People who sleep.

الهَجيعُ من الليلnoun
  1. 1.
    part of the nightboth

    A portion or segment of the night.

الهَجْعُnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepboth

    Sleep, especially at night.

الهَجْعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    sleepboth

    Sleep, especially at night.

المَهْجَعnoun
  1. 1.
    careless foolclassical

    A person who is heedless, foolish, or unintelligent.

مهجع بن صالحname
  1. 1.
    companionclassical

    A companion (Sahabi) of the Prophet Muhammad.

هَجِيع بن قيسname
  1. 1.
    companionclassical

    A companion (Sahabi) of the Prophet Muhammad.

هَجَعَ جوعهverb
  1. 1.
    to break one's hungerclassical

    To satisfy or break one's hunger.

أَهْجَعَ جوعهverb
  1. 1.
    to break one's hungerclassical

    To satisfy or break one's hunger.

فَهَجَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to be broken (hunger)classical

    To become satisfied or broken (referring to hunger).

طريق تهجعadjective
  1. 1.
    wide roadclassical

    A road that is wide and spacious.

رَكِبَ هُجاعother
  1. 1.
    misprint for 'hajjaj'classical

    This is noted as a misprint, with the correct word being 'hajjaj'.

Parallel reading

الهُجوع، بالضم، والتهجاع: النوم ليلا
Al-hujūʿ, with damma, and al-tahjāʿ: sleeping at night.
أو التهجاع: النومة الخفيفة
Or al-tahjāʿ: a light nap.
هجع، كمنع، وهم هجع وهجوع
Hajaʿa, like manaʿa, and they are hajiʿ and hujūʿ.
والهجيع من الليل: الطائفة
And al-hajīʿ of the night: a portion.
والهجع والهجعة، بكسرهما، وكصرد وكتف
And al-hajʿ and al-hajʿah, with kasra for both, and like ṣurad and katif.
والمهجع، كمنبر: الغافل الأحمق
And al-mahjaʿ, like minbar: the heedless fool.
ومُهَجَّع بن صالح، وهَجِيع بن قيس، كزبير: صحابيان
And Muhajjaʿ ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Hajīʿ ibn Qays, like Zubayr: two companions.
وهجع جوعه: كسره، كأهجعه، فهجع، لازم متعد
And he broke his hunger: he satisfied it, like he caused it to be satisfied, so it was satisfied; intransitive and transitive.
وطريق تهجع: واسع
And a road tahjaʿ: wide.
وركب هجاع، تصحيف، صوابه: هجاج
And he rode hijāʿ, a misprint, its correction is: hajjāj.