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خجل

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns feelings of shyness, embarrassment, and bashfulness. It can also extend to a sense of being overwhelmed or boastful due to prosperity, and metaphorically to lush, overgrown vegetation.

Derived headwords

خَجَلnoun
  1. 1.
    he was bewildered and astonished from shynessboth

    he was bewildered and astonished from shyness

  2. 2.
    bad endurance of wealthboth

    bad endurance of wealth

  3. 3.
    shy, bashfulboth

    shy, bashful

خَجِلَverb
  1. 1.
    he was bewildered and astonished from shynessboth

    he was bewildered and astonished from shyness

  2. 2.
    bad endurance of wealthboth

    bad endurance of wealth

  3. 3.
    shy, bashfulboth

    shy, bashful

أَخْجَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to make shyboth

    To cause someone else to feel shy or embarrassed.

خَجِلadjective
  1. 1.
    he was bewildered and astonished from shynessboth

    he was bewildered and astonished from shyness

  2. 2.
    bad endurance of wealthboth

    bad endurance of wealth

  3. 3.
    shy, bashfulboth

    shy, bashful

خَجْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    shyness, bashfulnessboth

    shyness, bashfulness

Parallel reading

الخجل: التحير والدهش من الاستحياء.
Shyness: confusion and astonishment from modesty.
وقد خجل حجلا وأخجله غيره.
He became shy, and another made him shy.
والخجل أيضا: سوء احتمال الغنى.
And shyness is also: poor tolerance of wealth.
" إذا شبعتن خجلتن "، أي أشرتن وبطرتن.
"When you are full, you become boastful," meaning you become arrogant and insolent.
ورجل خجل وبه خجلة، أي حياء.
And a shy man, and he has shyness, meaning modesty.
الخجل: المكان الكثير العشب الملتف
Shyness: a place with abundant, dense grass.
أن رجلا ضلت له أينق فأتى على واد خجل مغن معشب فوجد أينقه فيه
A man lost his she-camels, and he came upon a lush, overgrown, grassy valley and found his she-camels there.