ر و ج

ر و ج

Arabic

Etymology

All from رَوَاج‎ (rawāj).

Root

ر و ج • (r-w-j)

1. related to being around

Derived terms

• Form I: رَاجَ‎ (rāja, “to have currency, to circulate, to sell well, to be in demand, to burgeon, to be buoyant”)
  • Verbal noun: رَوَاج‎ (rawāj)
  • Active participle: رَائِج‎ (rāʾij)
  • Passive participle: مَرُوج‎ (marūj)
• Form II: رَوَّجَ‎ (rawwaja, “to make have currency, to make circulate, to sling well, to propagate, to pitch, to promote”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْوِيج‎ (tarwīj)
  • Active participle: مُرَوِّج‎ (murawwij)
  • Passive participle: مُرَوَّج‎ (murawwaj)
• Form V: تَرَوَّجَ‎ (tarawwaja, “to go round about the watering-trough; to be valid; to accept as a valid currency”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَوُّج‎ (tarawwuj)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَوِّج‎ (mutarawwij)
  • Passive participle: مُتَرَوَّج‎ (mutarawwaj)

• رَوَّاج‎ (rawwāj, “going round about the watering-trough but not reaching it”)
• أَرْوَج‎ (ʾarwaj, “going around faster”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ر و ج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 564–565
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 195
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ر و ج”, 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, page 205
• Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879) Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 251
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ر و ج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1177
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ر و ج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 505–506