Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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حيث حيج حيد


1. ⇒ حيجحاج

حَاجَ, aor. يَحِيجُ, (Kr, Ḳ,) inf. n. حَيْجٌ, (TA,) i. q. حَاجَ, aor. يَحُوجُ: (Kr, Ḳ:) extr., because the ا of حَاجَةٌ [which is its logical root] is [originally] و. (TA.)


4. ⇒ احيجاحاج

أَحْيَجَتِ الأَرْضُ, (Ḳ,) irregular, like أَحُوَجَ, (TA,) and أَحَاجَت, The land produced the thorny plants, or trees, called حَاجٌ: (Ḳ:) or abounded therewith. (TA.)


حَاجٌ / حَاجَةٌ

حَاجٌ, a coll. gen. n., n. un. with ة {حَاجَةٌ}, (TA,) A certain kind of thorny plant, or tree; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) a plant of the sour kind (مِنَ الحَمْضِ): accord. to ISd, a kind of thorny plant or tree, i. q. كَبُرٌ [or caper]: or a certain plant different from that just named: or a certain kind of tree: accord. to AḤn, an evergreen, of which the roots extend far into the ground; which, cooked, is used as a medicine; having slender and long leaves, seeming as numerous as the thorns: (TA:) [asparago sylvestri similis: (Golius, from Ibn-Beytár:) this name, and عَاقُول, are now applied by the Arabs to the plant called by European botanists hedysarum alhagi: see عَاقُولٌ and تَرَنْجُبِينٌ:] dim.حُيَيْجٌ↓; therefore its medial radical letter is ى; (Ḳ;) andحِيَيْجٌ↓ is a chaste dial. var. of this dim., agreeably with a usage observed in similar cases [when the medial radical letter is ى]. (TA.)


حُيَيْجٌ / حِيَيْجٌ

حُيَيْجٌ and حِيَيْجٌ: see what next precedes.


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