هجج

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

The root هجج primarily relates to the concept of sinking, receding, or becoming deep, often applied to eyes or valleys. It also extends to meanings of driving away, urging, or a foolish or stubborn disposition, and includes onomatopoeic sounds for herding or calling animals.

Derived headwords

هَجَّجْتُ عَيْنَهُverb

1.
to become sunkenboth
When referring to an eye, it means the eye has become sunken or hollowed.

عَيْنٌ هَاجَةٌadjective

1.
sunken (eye)both
An eye that is sunken or hollowed.

الهَجِيجُnoun

1.
deep valleyclassical
A deep and possibly wide valley.

هَجِيجُ النَّارِnoun

1.
roar of fireboth
The sound of a fire burning intensely, similar to its 'rushing' sound.

هَجَّاجٌnoun

1.
stubbornly going one's own wayclassical
Used to describe someone who is determined to follow their own path, often disregarding others or the proper course.

هَجَّاجٌnoun

1.
foolishboth
Describing a person as foolish or lacking sense.

هَجَّاجِيكَparticle

1.
stop it!classical
An expression used to tell people to cease an action or desist from something.

هَجَّاجَةٌadjective

1.
foolishboth
An adjective describing someone as foolish or simple-minded.

هَجْهَجَverb

1.
to herd (sheep)both
A sound or verb used to urge or drive sheep, often a sharp call.

هَجْهَجَ بِهِverb

1.
to shout at and drive awayboth
To yell at someone or something and urge it to move away or stop.

هَجْهَجَ الفَحْلُverb

1.
to rumble (stallion)both
Describes the deep, rumbling sound a stallion makes during its rutting or in its vocalizations.

الهَجْهَاجُadjective

1.
rebelliousclassical
Describes something or someone that is unruly, rebellious, or difficult to control.

هَجْparticle

1.
shoo! (to a dog)both
A sound used to drive away a dog, similar to 'shoo' or 'get out'.

Parallel reading

هَجَّجْتُ عَيْنَهُ: غارت.

I made his eye sunken: it became sunken.

وعين هاجة، أي غائرة.

And a sunken eye, meaning hollowed.

والهجيج: الوادي العميق.

And al-hajij: the deep valley.

وهجيج النار: أجيجها، مثل هراق وأراق.

And the roar of fire: its roaring sound, like haraqa and araqa.

وركب فلان هجاج غير مجرى، وهجاج أيضا مثل قطام، إذا ركب رأسه.

And so-and-so rode in a stubborn manner, off the usual course, and 'hajaj' also, like qatam, when he followed his own head.

فلا يدع اللئام سبيل غي * وقد ركبوا على لومي هجاج

So let the base people not abandon the path of misguidance * even though they have ridden stubbornly against my blame.

تقول للناس إذا أردت أن يكفوا عن الشئ: هجاجيك وهذا ذيك، على تقدير الاثنين.

You say to people when you want them to stop something: 'Hajajik wa hadha dhik', as if addressing two.

ورجل هجاجة، أي أحمق.

And a man is hajjajah, meaning foolish.

هجاجة منتخب الفؤاد * كأنه نعامة في وادى

Foolish, chosen of heart * as if he were an ostrich in a valley.

وقولهم: هجهج: زجر للغنم، مبنى على الفتح.

And their saying: 'Hajhaj': a call to drive sheep, constructed on the fatHa.

وهجهجت بالسبع، أي صحت به وزجرته ليكف.

And I shouted at the beast, meaning I called out to it and urged it to stop.

أو ذر زوائد لا يطاق بأرضه * يغشى المهجهج كالذنوب المرسل

Or abandon excesses that cannot be borne in his land * the unruly one is covered like a sent sinner.

وهجهج الفحل في هديره.

And the stallion rumbled in its roar.

والهجهاج: النفور، حكاه أبو عبيد.

And al-hajhaj: the unruly, narrated by Abu Ubaid.

وهج مخفف: زجر للكلب، يسكن وينون، كما يقال بخ وبخ.

And 'haj' shortened: a call to a dog, it is quiescent and takes tanwin, as one says 'bakh' and 'bakh'.

سفرت فقلت لها هج فتبرقعت

She unveiled herself, so I said to her 'Haj!' and she veiled herself.