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 (hijāʔ)
  • 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 (hijāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُهَاجٍ (muhājin)
  • Passive participle: مُهَاجًى (muhājan)
• Form IV: أَهْجَى (ʔahjā, “to consider satire”)
  • Verbal noun: إِهْجَاء (ʔihjāʔ)
  • 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 (ihtijāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُهْتَجٍ (muhtajin)

• أُهْجُوَّة (ʔuhjuwwa) and أُهْجِيَّة (ʔuhjiyya, “lampoon”)
• هَجَّاء (hajjāʔ, “satirist”)
• هَجَاة (hajāh, “frog”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ه ج و”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1396
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ه ج و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1196b–1197a