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ماج

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of water, specifically its salinity and bitterness. It describes water that is intensely salty or brackish, and the process of water becoming so.

Derived headwords

مَأَجnoun
  1. 1.
    the sea surged: its waves became turbulentboth

    the sea surged: its waves became turbulent

مَؤُجَverb
  1. 1.
    to be brackishclassical

    The water became intensely salty or brackish.

مُؤَوِّجَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Becoming brackishclassical

    The state or process of water becoming intensely salty or brackish.

مَأْجadjective
  1. 1.
    the sea surged: its waves became turbulentboth

    the sea surged: its waves became turbulent

Parallel reading

المأج: الماء الأجاج.
Al-Ma'j: The intensely salty water.
وقد مؤج الماء يمؤج مؤوجة فهو مأج.
And the water became intensely salty, it becomes intensely salty, a process of becoming intensely salty, and it is intensely salty.
فإنك كالقريحة عام تمهى شروب الماء ثم تعود مأجا
Indeed, you are like a spring that, in a year when it becomes intensely salty, drinks the water, then returns to being intensely salty.