حج

Arabic

Etymology

From ح ج ج (ḥ-j-j). Compare Hebrew חַג (ḥaḡ, “feast-day”), Classical Syriac ܚܓܐ (ḥaggā, “feast”), Classical Syriac ܚܳܓ (ḥāgg, “to go around”), Ge'ez ሕግ (ḥəgg, “law”), Ge'ez ሐገገ (ḥaggaga, “to legislate, to decree”). Perhaps related to حَقَّ (ḥaqqa, “to be right”) and words corresponding to this root in the other Semitic languages, there being for example Hebrew חוק (ḥóqq, “law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa/

Verb

1. to overcome, defeat, defend (with arguments, evidence, etc.)
2. to convince
3. (religion) to make a pilgrimage
   1. (Islam) to perform the hajj (make a pilgrimage to Mecca according to a specific ritual)
4. to go towards, visit, repair to (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħad͡ʒd͡ʒ/
  • IPA^(key): /ħaɡɡ/
  • IPA^(key): /ħaʒʒ/
  • IPA^(key): /ħaʒʒ/

Noun

حَجّ • (ḥajj) m (usually uncountable)

1. verbal noun of حَجَّ (ḥajja) (form I)
2. (religion) pilgrimage
   1. (Islam) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca according to a specific ritual)

Declension

Declension of noun حَجّ (ḥajj)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَجّ ḥajj	الْحَجّ al-ḥajj	حَجّ ḥajj
Nominative	حَجٌّ ḥajjun	الْحَجُّ al-ḥajju	حَجُّ ḥajju
Accusative	حَجًّا ḥajjan	الْحَجَّ al-ḥajja	حَجَّ ḥajja
Genitive	حَجٍّ ḥajjin	الْحَجِّ al-ḥajji	حَجِّ ḥajji

Synonyms

• حِجَّة (ḥijja)

Related terms

• اِحْتِجَاج (iḥtijāj)
• تَحَجُّج (taḥajjuj)
• حَاجّ (ḥājj)
• حَجَاج (ḥajāj)
• حُجَّة (ḥujja)
• حُجِّيَّة (authority)
• ذُو الْحِجَّة (ḏū l-ḥijja)
• مَحَجَّة (maḥajja)
• مَحَجّ (maḥajj)
• مُحْتَجّ (muḥtajj)

 

Further reading

• حج on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “حج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 248
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 344
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 513–514
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 183–184

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Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic حَجَّ (ḥajja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħaɡɡ/

Verb

1. to make a pilgrimage to mecca

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Moroccan Arabic

Root
ح ج ج
1 term

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħaʒʒ/

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Etymology 1

From Arabic حَجَّ (ḥajja).

Verb

حج • (ḥagg) I (non-past يحُج (yḥujj) or يحَج (yḥajj))

1. to make a pilgrimage to mecca

Etymology 2

From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj).

Noun

حج • (ḥajj) m (usually uncountable)

1. (religion) pilgrimage
   1. (Islam) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca according to a specific ritual)

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj).

Noun

حج • (hacc)

1. (Islam) hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	h
Dari reading?	h
Iranian reading?	h
Tajik reading?	h

Noun

Dari	حج
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳаҷҷ

حج • (hajj)

1. (Islam) pilgrimage to Mecca, hajj
   • Rumi, Divan-e Shams, ghazal 648

     ای قوم به حج رفته کجایید کجایید
     معشوق همین جاست بیایید بیایید

     O, you people who have performed hajj, where are you? Where are you?
     The beloved is right here, come! Come!

Derived terms

• حاجی (hâjji)

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦəd̪d͡ʒ/

Noun

حج • (hajj) m (Hindi spelling हज्ज)

1. (Islam) hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca