Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

غَنِجَتْ, (Ṣ, A, MA, O, Ḳ;) aor. ـَ {يَغْنَجُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. غُنْجٌ (Ṣ, MA) and غَنَاجَةٌ; (MA;) and غُنِجَتْ; (MA;) andتغنّجت↓; (Ṣ, A, MA, Ḳ;) said of a girl, or young woman, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or of a woman, (A, MA,) She used amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned coyness or opposition, (Ṣ,* A,* MA, O,* Ḳ,* TA,) and an affecting of languor. (TA.) [See غُنْجٌ below.]

غُنْجٌ [mentioned above as an inf. n.] andغُنُجٌ↓ (Ṣ, O, Ḳ) andغُنَاجٌ↓ andغِنَاجٌ↓, (O, Ḳ,) in a girl, or young woman, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) Amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned coyness or opposition, (Bkh, Ṣ,* O,* Ḳ,* TA,) and an affecting of languor: (Bkh, TA:) [in the present day generally used to signify lascivious motion, or a wriggling of the body or hips, under the excitement of sexual passion, or to excite such passion:] accord. to some, beauty of the eyes. (TA.)

And غُنْجٌ andغِنَاجٌ↓ signify also Smoke-black (دُخَانُ النَّؤُورِ [see the latter of these two nouns in art. نور] AA, O, Ḳ) which a woman performing the operation of tattooing puts upon her green colour in order that it may become black. (AA, O, TA.)

غَنَجٌ An old man: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a man: (TA:) in the dial. of Hudheyl. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) So in the saying غَنَجٌ عَلَى شَنَجٍ (TA) meaning A man upon a camel: (Lth, IDrd, O, all in art. شنج:) or a man or an old man, upon a heavy camel: (L in that art.:) a phrase of the tribe of Hudheyl. (TA.) [See عَنَجٌ.]

غُنْجَةُ, (O,) or غُنَجَةُ, (TA,) without اَلْ, and imperfectly decl., (O, TA,) The قُنْفُذ [or hedge-hog], (O,) or the قُنْفُذَة [or female hedgehog]. (TA.)

غَنِجَةٌ (Bkh, Ṣ, A, MA, O, Ḳ) andمَغْنُوجَةٌ↓ (A, MA) and [in an intensive sense] مِغْنَاجٌ↓, (O, Ḳ) applied to a girl, or young woman, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or to a woman, (A, MA,) Using or who uses, amorous gesture or behaviour,, &c., such as is termed غُنْج. (Bkh, Ṣ, A, MA, O, Ḳ, TA.)

غَوْنَجٌ A quick, or swift, camel: mentioned by Kr, but said to be not known on the authority of any other. (TA.)

أَغْنُوجَةٌ A gesture, or an action, of the kind termed غُنْج: pl. أَغَانِيجُ: Aboo-Dhu-eyb says,

* لَوَى رَأْسَهُ عَنِّى وَمَالَ بِوُدِّهِ *

* أَغَانِيجُ خَوْدٍ كَانَ فِينَا يَزُورُهَا *

[The amorous gestures or actions,, &c., of a soft or tender, or goodly-shaped and young, damsel, whom he used to visit among us, turned his head from me, and diverted his love]. (TA.)