عجي

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns anatomical terms related to tendons and ligaments, particularly in the legs of animals like horses and camels. It also extends to describe the condition of being poorly nourished or the act of causing such a state.

Derived headwords

العجايةnoun

1.
tendon at the wristclassical
A complex tendon containing bony nodules, resembling the settings of a ring, located at the animal's wrist.
2.
tendon in legclassical
Any tendon in a hand or leg.
3.
tendon in horse's legclassical
A tendon in the inner part of the metacarpal or metatarsal bone of a horse or ox.
4.
tendon connecting to hoofclassical
Every tendon connected to the hoof.

العجاوةnoun

1.
tendon at the wristclassical
A variant term for the tendon at the animal's wrist.

العجىnoun

1.
tendons of legsclassical
Plural of العجاية, referring to the tendons of the legs of camels and horses.

عجيverb

1.
to be poorly nourishedclassical
The year made the young animals poorly nourished, referring to a state of bad feeding.

أعجتverb

1.
to cause poor nourishmentclassical
The year caused the young animals to be poorly nourished.

عجياverb

1.
to cause poor nourishmentclassical
A woman caused her child to be poorly nourished.

عجاياnoun

1.
poorly nourished youngclassical
The young animals that are poorly nourished due to a bad year.

عجاياتnoun

1.
tendons of legsclassical
Plural of العجاية, referring to the tendons of the legs of camels and horses.

Parallel reading

العجاية، بالضم: عصب مركب فيه فصوص من عظام كفصوص الخاتم يكون عند رسغ الدابة

Al-'ujāyah (with dammah): a compound tendon containing nodules of bone like the settings of a ring, found at the animal's wrist.

وإذا جاع أحدهم دقها بين فهرين فأكلها

And if one of them became hungry, he would crush it between his fingers and eat it.

والعجاوة لغة فيه

And al-'ajāwah is a linguistic variant for it.

وهي كل عصبة في يد أو رجل

And it is every tendon in a hand or leg.

أو هي عصبة في باطن الوظيف من الفرس والثور

Or it is a tendon in the inner part of the metacarpal bone of a horse and an ox.

وقيل: هي من الفرس العصبة المستطيلة من الوظيف ومنتهاها إلى الرسغين، وفيها يكون الخطم، والرسغ منتهى العجاية.

And it was said: it is, for a horse, the elongated tendon from the metacarpal bone, ending at the wrists, and in it is the fetlock, and the wrist is the end of the 'ujāyah.

ومن الناقة: عصبة في باطن يدها؛ ومن الفرس: مضيغة.

And from a she-camel: a tendon in the inner part of its leg; and from a horse: a chewed piece (of flesh).

العجايتان عصبتان في باطن يدي الفرس، وأسفل منهما هنات كأنها الأظفار وتسمى السعدانات

The two 'ujāyatān are two tendons in the inner part of a horse's forelegs, and below them are things like fingernails called al-sa'dānāt.

ويقال لكل عصب يتصل بالحافر: عجاية

And every tendon connected to the hoof is called an 'ujāyah.

وحافر صلب العجى مدملق وساق هيق أنفها معرق

And a solid hoof, the 'ujā is smooth, and a lean leg whose fetlock is veined.

العجاية والعجاية لغتان، وهما قدر مضغة من لحم تكون موصولة بعصبة تنحدر من ركبة البعير إلى الفرسن.

Al-'ujāyah and al-'ujāyah are two linguistic variants, and they are about the size of a mouthful of flesh connected to a tendon descending from the camel's knee to the fetlock.

العجايات أعصاب قوائم الإبل والخيل

Al-'ujāyāt are the tendons of the legs of camels and horses.

سمر العجايات يتركن الحصى زيما

The blackness of the 'ujāyāt leaves the pebbles like reins.

أعجت السنة البهم: جعلتها عجايا، وهي السيئة الغذاء.

The year made the young animals poorly nourished: it made them 'ujāyā, meaning those with bad nutrition.

وعجت المرأة صبيها! عجيا، لغة، نقله ابن القطاع.

And the woman caused her child to be poorly nourished! 'ujiyā, a linguistic variant, as transmitted by Ibn al-Qiṭṭā'.