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دعج

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes intense blackness and wideness of the eyes. It extends to describe dark-complexioned or dark-haired individuals and is also used to refer to specific phases of the moon during the lunar month.

Derived headwords

دَعَجnoun
  1. 1.
    intense eye blackness and widenessboth

    The quality of having eyes that are intensely black and wide.

دَعْجَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    with a long vowel (feminine form)both

    with a long vowel (feminine form)

عين دعجاء — a wide and black-eyed woman
ادْعَجّadjective
  1. 1.
    dark-complexionedclassical

    Describing a man who is dark-complexioned or dark-haired.

Parallel reading

الدعج: شدة سواد العين مع سعتها.
Al-da'aj: intense blackness of the eye with its wideness.
يقال: عين دعجاء.
It is said: 'a wide and black-eyed woman'.
والادعج من الرجال: الاسود.
And al-ud'aj among men: the dark-complexioned one.
ما أم غفر على دعجاء ذي علق * ينفي القراميد عنها الأعصم الوقل
What a mother of a herd of wild asses, upon a dark mountain with a herd * the strong, sure-footed one drives away the sand-grouse from it.
فهى هضبة، عن أبى عبيدة.
It is a hill, from Abu Ubaydah.
والعرب تسمى أول المحاق (1) : الدعجاء، وهي ليلة ثمان وعشرين، والثانية السرار، والثالثة الفلتة (2) ، وهى ليلة الثلاثين.
And the Arabs name the first phase of the waning moon (1): al-da'ja', which is the night of the twenty-eighth, and the second is al-sirar, and the third is al-faltah (2), which is the night of the thirtieth.