ه ج و

ه ج و

Arabic

Etymology

Of Proto-Semitic origin, also found in Aramaic ה־ג־י‎ / ܗ-ܓ-ܝ‎ (h-ɡ-y), and in Old Armenian հեգ (heg) and հեգենայ (hegenay).

Root

ه ج و • (h-j-w)

1. related to meditation, detailed contemplation

Derived terms

• Form I: هَجَا‎ (hajā, “to satirize; to pronounce the flaws of; to spell out”)
  • Verbal noun: هَجْو‎ (hajw), هِجَاء‎ (hijāʾ)
  • Active participle: هَاجٍ‎ (hājin)
  • Passive participle: مَهْجُوّ‎ (mahjuww)
• Form II: هَجَّى‎ (hajjā, “to spell out”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهْجِيَة‎ (tahjiya)
  • Active participle: مُهَجٍّ‎ (muhajjin)
  • Passive participle: مُهَجًّى‎ (muhajjan)
• Form III: هَاجَى‎ (hājā, “to compose satire against”)
  • Verbal noun: مُهَاجَاة‎ (muhājāh), هِجَاء‎ (hijāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُهَاجٍ‎ (muhājin)
  • Passive participle: مُهَاجًى‎ (muhājan)
• Form IV: أَهْجَى‎ (ʾahjā, “to consider satire”)
  • Verbal noun: إِهْجَاء‎ (ʾihjāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُهْجٍ‎ (muhjin)
  • Passive participle: مُهْجًى‎ (muhjan)
• Form V: تَهَجَّى‎ (tahajjā, “to spell”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَجٍّ‎ (tahajjin)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَجٍّ‎ (mutahajjin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَهَجًّى‎ (mutahajjan)
• Form VI: تَهَاجَى‎ (tahājā, “to compose satire against each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهَاجٍ‎ (tahājin)
  • Active participle: مُتَهَاجٍ‎ (mutahājin)
• Form VIII: اِهْتَجَى‎ (ihtajā, “to compose satire against each other”)
  • Verbal noun: اِهْتِجَاء‎ (ihtijāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُهْتَجٍ‎ (muhtajin)

• أُهْجُوَّة‎ (ʾuhjuwwa) and أُهْجِيَّة‎ (ʾuhjiyya, “lampoon”)
• هَجَّاء‎ (hajjāʾ, “satirist”)
• هَجَاة‎ (hajāh, “frog”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ه ج و”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 748b
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ه ج و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 373
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ه ج و”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1396
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ه ج و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1196b–1197a