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ج ش ع

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns intense desire, greed, and eagerness, often with negative connotations of covetousness and excessive wanting. It can also extend to concepts of distress, fear, and even physical struggle over something scarce.

Derived headwords

الجشع، محركةnoun
  1. 1.
    Greed, avariceboth

    Intense desire and eagerness, especially for food or worldly possessions, often to an excessive and negative degree.

  2. 2.
    Distress, anxietyclassical

    Anxiety or distress, particularly due to separation from a loved one or familiar companion.

  3. 3.
    Fear, panicclassical

    Sudden fear or panic.

جشع، كفرحverb
  1. 1.
    To be greedyboth

    To exhibit intense desire or greed, particularly in acquiring things.

جشعadjective
  1. 1.
    Greedyboth

    Characterized by intense desire or greed.

جشعينnoun
  1. 1.
    Greedy peopleboth

    Plural of 'jashi'

مجاشعname
  1. 1.
    Majashi'both

    The name of a prominent tribe (Banu Majashi') from Tamim, and also a personal name.

أجشعverb
  1. 1.
    To make greedyclassical

    To cause someone to become greedy or excessively eager.

تجاشعاverb
  1. 1.
    To struggle over waterclassical

    To contend or struggle intensely with others for water, indicating scarcity and desperation.

التجشعnoun
  1. 1.
    Greedinessboth

    The act or state of being greedy; intense desire.

تجشعverb
  1. 1.
    To be greedyboth

    To be intensely desirous or greedy.

جشاعىnoun
  1. 1.
    Greedy peopleclassical

    A collective noun or plural for people exhibiting greed or intense desire.

جشعاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Greedy peopleclassical

    A collective noun or plural for people exhibiting greed or intense desire.

جشاعnoun
  1. 1.
    Greedy peopleclassical

    A collective noun or plural for people exhibiting greed or intense desire.

جشع بشعadjective
  1. 1.
    Greedy and wickedclassical

    Describing a person who combines distress, greed, and inner wickedness.

الجشيعadjective
  1. 1.
    Deceitful, pretentiousclassical

    One who adopts false characteristics or pretends to possess qualities they do not have.

الجشع، ككتفnoun
  1. 1.
    Lionclassical

    A name or epithet for a lion, possibly due to its fierce and covetous nature.

Parallel reading

الجشع، محركة: أشد الحرص
Al-jasha', with harakah, means the most intense eagerness.
وأسوؤه على الأكل وغيره
And its worst form is concerning food and other things.
أن تأخذ نصيبك، وتطمع في نصيب غيرك
To take your share, and covet the share of others.
وقد جشع، كفرح جشعا، فهو جشع، من قوم جشعين
And he was greedy, as in 'faraha', with 'jasha'an', so he is greedy, from a people of the greedy.
وإن مدت الأيدي إلى الزاد لم أكن ... بأعجلهم، إذ أجشع القوم أعجل
And if hands were extended towards the food, I was not... the most eager among them, for when the people became greedy, they became eager.
وكلاب الصيد فيهن جشع
And the hunting dogs among them were eager.
مجاشع بن دارم بن مالك بن حنظلة بن مالك بن عمرو، بالضم: أبو قبيلة من تميم، مشهور.
Majashi' bin Darim bin Malik bin Hanzalah bin Malik bin Amr, with dammah, is the ancestor of a famous tribe from Tamim.
فشحا جحافله جراف هبلع
His armies were vast, destructive, and voracious.
كأن أباها نهشل أو مجاشع
As if her father was Nahshal or Majashi'.
روي عن بعض الأعراب: تجاشعا الماء، أي تضايقا عليه، وكذلك تناهباه، وتشاحجاه وتعاطشاه.
It is narrated from some Bedouins: 'tajasha'u al-ma', meaning they struggled intensely over it, and similarly they snatched it from each other, contended for it, and thirsted for it.
والتجشع: التحرص، نقله الجوهري
And 'al-tajashshu': is eagerness, as transmitted by Al-Jawhari.
الجشع، محركة: الجزع لفراق الإلف.
Al-jasha', with harakah: is distress at parting from a companion.
ورجل جشع بشع: يجمع جزعا وحرصا وخبث نفس.
And a 'jashi' bash'i' man: combines distress, greed, and inner wickedness.
ففيهما جرأة الظلماء والجشع
And in them is the boldness of darkness and the lion.