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جءجء

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the chest or breast of birds and ships, and also to calling animals, specifically camels, to drink. It involves sounds associated with these actions.

Derived headwords

جُؤْجُؤnoun
  1. 1.
    chest, breastboth

    The chest or breast area of a bird or a ship.

جَآجِئnoun
  1. 1.
    pluralboth

    plural

جَأْجَأَverb
  1. 1.
    this is its chestboth

    this is its chest

جِئْ جِئْother
  1. 1.
    sound for calling camelsclassical

    The specific vocalization used to call camels to drink.

جِئْother
  1. 1.
    sound for calling camelsclassical

    A shortened form of the sound used to call camels to drink.

الجِئْnoun
  1. 1.
    the comingboth

    the coming

الجِيعnoun
  1. 1.
    a type of soundclassical

    A term for a specific sound, used here as an example of a word structure.

Parallel reading

جُؤْجُؤ الطائر والسفينة: صدرهما
The chest of the bird and the ship: their breast.
والجمع الجآجئ
And the plural is al-jāji'.
جأجأت بالإبل، إذا دعوتها لتشرب، فقلت: جئ، جئ
I called the camels to drink, if you call them to drink, saying: 'ji', 'ji'.
والاسم الجئ، مثال الجيع
And the name is al-ji', an example like al-jī'.
وأصله: جئئ، قلبت الهمزة الاولى ياء
And its origin is: ji'i', the first hamza was changed to a ya'.
وما كان على الجئ * ولا الهئ امتدا حيكا
And what was upon the call to drink * nor the other sound was extended by a weaver.