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 (rāʔij)
  • 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 (ʔarwaj, “going around faster”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ر و ج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (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^[2] (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)‎^[3] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 251
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ر و ج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1177
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ر و ج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 505–506