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وءج

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns intense hunger. It describes a severe state of starvation and the feeling associated with it.

Derived headwords

الوَاْجnoun
  1. 1.
    severe hungerclassical

    An intense and extreme state of hunger, often implying starvation.

وأجverb
  1. 1.
    to be intensely hungryclassical

    To experience extreme hunger or starvation.

Parallel reading

الوَاْج ، بفتح فسكون (الجوع الشديد)
Al-wa'j, with fath on the waw and sukun on the hamza (intense hunger).
ومن المتأخرين من حركه لضرورة الشعر.
And among the later scholars, some vocalized it with a haraka out of poetic necessity.