ر ج س

ر ج س

Arabic

Root

ر ج س • (r-j-s)

1. related to squalor

Derived terms

• Form I: رَجِسَ‎ (rajisa, “to be dirty, to be filthy; to act shamefully, to do something shameful or disgraceful”)
  • Active participle: رَاجِس‎ (rājis)
  • Passive participle: مَرْجُوس‎ (marjūs, “filthy, abominable”)
• Form I: رَجُسَ‎ (rajusa, “id.”)
  • Active participle: رَاجِس‎ (rājis)
  • Passive participle: مَرْجُوس‎ (marjūs, “filthy, abominable”)
• Form II: رَجَّسَ‎ (rajjasa, “to sully, to make dirty; to cover with opprobrium, to make appear shameful”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْجِيس‎ (tarjīs)
  • Active participle: مُرَجِّس‎ (murajjis)
  • Passive participle: مُرَجَّس‎ (murajjas)
• Form V: تَرَجَّسَ‎ (tarajjasa, “to become filthy”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَجُّس‎ (tarajjus)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَجِّس‎ (mutarajjis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَرَجَّس‎ (mutarajjas)

• رِجْس‎ (rijs) and رَجَس‎ (rajas, “filth; disgrace”)
• رَجِس‎ (rajis, “filthy, abominable”)
• رَجَاسَة‎ (rajāsa, “squalor”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ر ج س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 511
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ر ج س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 124–125
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ر ج س”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 825–826
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ر ج س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1037
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ر ج س”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 378