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Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts related to fortune, luck, and destiny. It also extends to terms for lice and the act of naming.

Derived headwords

حَظِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to be fortunateboth

    To experience good fortune or luck; to be favored.

كَسُمِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to be namedclassical

    To be called by a name; to be designated.

اِسْمnoun
  1. 1.
    nameboth

    A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.

الحَظَىnoun
  1. 1.
    liceclassical

    A small, wingless, parasitic insect that lives on the skin of mammals and birds.

حَظَاةnoun
  1. 1.
    louseclassical

    A single individual of the parasitic insect species known as lice.

كَإِلَىnoun
  1. 1.
    fortuneboth

    A chance, luck, or fate, especially a favorable one.

الحَظّnoun
  1. 1.
    luckboth

    Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.

الحَظْوnoun
  1. 1.
    fortuneclassical

    A favorable destiny or good luck.

أَحَظّnoun
  1. 1.
    fortunesclassical

    Plural form of fortune or luck.

أَحَاظnoun
  1. 1.
    fortunesclassical

    A plural form referring to multiple instances of fortune or luck.

Parallel reading

حظي، كسمي: اسم.
He was fortunate, as he was named: a name.
والحظى، كعلى: القمل، الواحدة: حظاة.
And al-ḥaẓā, like 'alā: lice, the singular is ḥaẓāh.
وكإلى: الحظ، كالحظو ج: أحظ جج: أحاظ.
And ka-ilā: fortune, like al-ḥaẓw, plural: aḥaẓẓ, plural plural: aḥāẓẓ.