و ج س

و ج س

Arabic

Root

و ج س • (w-j-s)

1. related to being anxious, struck by fear

Derived terms

• Form I: وَجَسَ‎ (wajasa, “to be anxious, to be struck by fear”)
  • Verbal noun: وَجْس‎ (wajs), وَجَسَان‎ (wajasān)
  • Active participle: وَاجِس‎ (wājis)
• Form IV: أَوْجَسَ‎ (ʾawjasa, “to feel, to forebode”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيجَاس‎ (ʾījās)
  • Active participle: مُوجِس‎ (mūjis)
  • Passive participle: مُوجَس‎ (mūjas)
• Form V: تَوَجَّسَ‎ (tawajjasa, “to be anxious; to observe closely; to sample a bit”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَجُّس‎ (tawajjus)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَجِّس‎ (mutawajjis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَوَجَّس‎ (mutawajjas)

• وَجَّاس‎ (wajjās, “observing closely”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “و ج س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 783
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “و ج س”, 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, pages 439–440
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “و 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1492
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “و ج س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1377–1378