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فجع

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns intense grief, sorrow, and pain, especially that caused by a sudden or severe loss or calamity. It describes the act of causing such grief and the feeling of being afflicted by it.

Derived headwords

الفَجِيعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    calamity, disasterboth

    calamity, disaster

فَجَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to grieve intenselyboth

    To cause someone to feel intense sorrow or pain, especially due to a loss or calamity.

تَفَجَّعَverb
  1. 1.
    he felt painboth

    he felt pain

تَفْجِيعnoun
  1. 1.
    causing griefboth

    The act of causing intense sorrow or pain to someone.

فَاجِعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    calamityboth

    A sudden and overwhelming misfortune or disaster that causes great grief.

تَفَجَّعَ لِـverb
  1. 1.
    to feel pain forboth

    To feel sorrow or pain on behalf of someone else, to empathize with their suffering.

Parallel reading

الفجيعة : الرزية.
Al-fajī'ah: the calamity.
وقد فجعته المصيبة، أي أوجعته.
And the calamity has grieved him, meaning it has pained him.
وكذلك التفجيع.
And likewise is the tafjī' (causing grief).
ونزلت بفلان فاجعة.
And a calamity befell so-and-so.
وتفجعت له، أي توجعت.
And he felt grief for him, meaning he felt pain.