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بذج

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns young, weak, or small animals, particularly lambs. It extends to describe a state of extreme weakness or humiliation, often in a figurative sense.

Derived headwords

البذجnoun
  1. 1.
    lambboth

    A young sheep, specifically one of the weakest kind.

  2. 2.
    weaklingclassical

    Something or someone extremely weak and feeble.

بذجnoun
  1. 1.
    lambclassical

    A young lamb, considered the weakest type of young sheep.

بذجانnoun
  1. 1.
    lambsclassical

    The plural of 'bith', referring to young lambs.

Parallel reading

البذج، محركة : الحمل، وقيل: هو أضعف ما يكون من الحملان
Al-bith (vowelized: fath on ba, sukun on tha): the lamb, and it is said: it is the weakest of lambs.
يؤتى بابن آدم يوم القيامة كأنه بذج، من الذل
On the Day of Resurrection, the son of Adam will be brought forth as if he were a bith, from humiliation.
الفراء: البذج (: ولد الضأن، كالعتود من) أولاد (المعز)
Al-Farra' said: Al-bith (is) a lamb, like a young goat (is) from the young of goats.
قد هلكت جارتنا من الهمج وإن تجع تأكل عتودا وبذج
Our neighbor has perished from hunger; if she were hungry, she would eat a young goat and a lamb.