هجد

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concepts of sleeping and staying awake, particularly for the purpose of nighttime worship. It encompasses both the act of sleeping and the act of staying awake, often with a focus on the latter in a religious context. The root also extends to related actions like causing someone to sleep or wake up.

Derived headwords

الهجودnoun

1.
sleepboth
The state of sleeping.
2.
sleepersclassical
Plural of 'haajid', referring to those who sleep.

هجدverb

1.
to sleepboth
To sleep, particularly in the latter part of the night.
2.
to stay upboth
To stay awake, often for worship.
3.
to pray at nightclassical
To perform prayers during the night.

هجد القوحم هجودا: ناموا — The people slept a sleep.

هاجدnoun

1.
sleeperboth
One who is sleeping.
2.
night worshipperclassical
One who prays at night.

تهجدverb

1.
to stay up (for worship)both
To stay awake, especially for prayer or other acts of worship.
2.
to sleepclassical
To sleep, especially in the latter part of the night.

ومن اليل فتهجد به نافلة لك — And from the night, stay awake with it as an additional prayer for you.

قم اليل إلا قليلا — Stand [to pray] the night, except for a little.

تهجيداnoun

1.
causing to sleepclassical
The act of causing someone to sleep.
2.
awakeningclassical
The act of waking someone up.

قال لبيد في التهجيد بمعنى التنويم يصف رفيقا له في السفر غلبه النعاس: ومجود من صبابات الكرى عاطف النمرق صدق المبتذل قلت هجدنا فقد طال السرى وقدرنا إن خنا الدهر غفل كأنه قال نومنا فإن السرى طال حتى غلبنا النوم. — Labeed said regarding 'tahjeed' meaning causing sleep, describing a travel companion overcome by drowsiness: 'And a traveler overcome by the urges of sleep, leaning on a pillow, truly worn out. I said, 'We slept, for the night journey was long, and we were destined, if time betrayed us, to be heedless.' It is as if he meant 'we slept', for the night journey was long until sleep overcame us.

هجدverb

1.
to sleepclassical
To sleep, especially in the latter part of the night.
2.
to stay upclassical
To stay awake, especially for prayer.

ألا هلك امرؤ قامت عليه بجنب عنيزة البقر الهجود — Perish the man against whom the cows of the sleeping ('al-hujood') stand.

فحياك ود ما هداك لفتية وخوص بأعلى ذي طوالة هجد — May a friend greet you who guided you to youths with wide eyes in the heights of Tawalih, who slept ('hajada').

هجودnoun

1.
sleepersclassical
Plural of 'haajid', referring to those who sleep.

تهجدverb

1.
to wake upboth
To wake up, either for prayer or other reasons.

هجدverb

1.
to pray at nightclassical
To pray during the night.

هجد الرجل، إذا صلى بالليل — The man prayed at night, if he prayed at night.

أهجدverb

1.
to cause to sleepboth
To make someone or something sleep.
2.
to find sleepingclassical
To find someone sleeping.

أهجدت الرجل: أنمته — I made the man sleep: I put him to sleep.

أهجد الرجل: وجد نائما — The man was found sleeping.

أنامverb

1.
to cause to sleepclassical
To make someone else sleep.

أهجد الرجل: أنام غيره — He made the man sleep: he made another sleep.

أهجدverb

1.
to make sleepclassical
To cause someone to sleep.

وهجده: أنامه — And he made him sleep.

أهجدverb

1.
to make a camel lie downclassical
For a camel to lay its chest on the ground.

أهجد البعير: ألقى جرانه على الأرض — The camel lay down: it cast its chest on the ground.

هجدverb

1.
to make a camel lie downclassical
For a camel to lay its chest on the ground.

كهجد تهجيدا وهاكذا — Like 'hajada' with 'tahjeedan' and so on.

هجدهverb

1.
to make sleepclassical
To cause someone to sleep.
2.
to awakenclassical
To awaken someone.

وهجده تهجيدا: أيقظه. ونومه، ضد — And 'hajadahu tahjeedan': he awakened him. And making him sleep, its opposite.

تهجيداnoun

1.
awakeningclassical
The act of awakening someone.

هجدverb

1.
to make sleepclassical
To cause someone to sleep.

وهجده تهجيدا: أيقظه. ونومه، ضد — And 'hajadahu tahjeedan': he awakened him. And making him sleep, its opposite.

هجدverb

1.
to drive (a horse)classical
A command or sound used to drive a horse.

هجد: زجر للفرس — Hajad: a reprimand for a horse.

إجدverb

1.
to drive (a horse)classical
A command or sound used to drive a horse.

مثل إجد — Like 'ijad'.

Parallel reading

هجد القوحم هجودا: ناموا

The people slept a sleep.

والهاجد: النائم

And the haajid: the sleeper.

هجد، وتهجد، أي نام ليلاف

He slept, and he stayed up, meaning he slept for a portion of the night.

هجد وتهجد أي سهر، وهو من الأضداد.

He slept and he stayed up, meaning he stayed awake, and it is one of the homonyms (antonyms).

والهاجد، والهجود. (بالفتح: المصلي بالليل)

And the haajid, and al-hujood. (with fatha): the one who prays at night.

هو جمع هاجد كواقف ووقوف

It is a plural of haajid like 'waaqif' and 'wuqoof'.

ألا هلك امرؤ قامت عليه بجنب عنيزة البقر الهجود

Perish the man against whom the cows of the sleeping ('al-hujood') stand.

فحياك ود ما هداك لفتية وخوص بأعلى ذي طوالة هجد

May a friend greet you who guided you to youths with wide eyes in the heights of Tawalih, who slept ('hajada').

وتهجد: استيقظ للصلاة أو غيرها

And 'tahajjada': he woke up for prayer or other reasons.

ومن اليل فتهجد به نافلة لك

And from the night, stay awake with it as an additional prayer for you.

أي تيقظ بالقرآن

Meaning, he became alert with the Quran.

قم اليل إلا قليلا

Stand [to pray] the night, except for a little.

كهجد تهجيدا (, ضد)

Like 'hajada' with 'tahjeedan', (opposite).

هجد الرجل، إذا صلى بالليل

The man prayed at night, if he prayed at night.

وهجد، إذا نام، وذالك كله في آخر الليل.

And he slept, meaning he slept, and all of that is in the latter part of the night.

والمعروف في كلام العرب أن الهاجد هو النائم

And what is known in the speech of the Arabs is that the haajid is the sleeper.

وهجد هجودا إذا نام

And he slept a sleep if he slept.

وأما المتهجد فهو القائم إلى الصلاة من النوم

And as for the mutatahajjid, he is the one who rises to prayer from sleep.

فنظر إلى متهجدي بيت المقدهس

So he looked at the night worshippers of the House of the Sacred.

أي المصلين بالليل

Meaning, the ones who pray at night.

يقال: تهجدت، إذا سهرت، وإذا نمت، وهو من الأضداد.

It is said: 'tahajjadtu', if you stayed up, and if you slept, and it is one of the homonyms (antonyms).

وأهجد الرجل: نام بنفسه، مثل هجد، عن الزجاج

And 'ahjada' the man: he slept by himself, like 'hajada', from Al-Zajjaj.

أهجدت الرجل: أنمته

I made the man sleep: I put him to sleep.

وهجدته: أيقظته

And I woke him up.

أهجد الرجل: وجد نائما

The man was found sleeping.

وهجده: أنامه

And he made him sleep.

أهجد البعير: ألقى جرانه على الأرض

The camel lay down: it cast its chest on the ground.

وهجده تهجيدا: أيقظه. ونومه، ضد

And 'hajadahu tahjeedan': he awakened him. And making him sleep, its opposite.

ومجود من صبابات الكرى عاطف النمرق صدق المبتذل

And a traveler overcome by the urges of sleep, leaning on a pillow, truly worn out.

قلت هجدنا فقد طال السرى وقدرنا إن خنا الدهر غفل

I said, 'We slept, for the night journey was long, and we were destined, if time betrayed us, to be heedless.'

كأنه قال نومنا فإن السرى طال حتى غلبنا النوم.

It is as if he meant 'we slept', for the night journey was long until sleep overcame us.

هجد: زجر للفرس

Hajad: a reprimand for a horse.

مثل إجد

Like 'ijad'.