Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

مَاجَ, aor. يَمُوجُ, inf. n. مَوْجٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ, &c.) and مَوَجَانٌ and مُؤُوجٌ; (TA;) It (the sea) was in a state of commotion; was tumultuous; (Mṣb;) was agitated with waves, conflicting, or dashing together; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoتموّج↓: (TA;) or this latter signifies it (the sea) was, or became, very tumultuous. (Mṣb.) [You say,] مَاجَ المَوْجُ The waves were in a state of commotion; were tumultuous; conflicted, or dashed together. (TA.) [And hence,] مَاجَ أَمْرُهُمْ † Their affair became in a confused and disturbed state. (TA.)

مَاجَ, inf. n. مَوْجٌ and مَوَجَانٌ, † It (anything) was in a state of commotion, or agitation. (TA.)

مَاجَ ‡ He was in a state of commotion, or agitation, and confounded, perplexed, or amazed. (IAạr.)

النَّاسُ يَمُوجُونٌ ‡ The people, or men, are in a state of commotion, or tumultuous. (Ṣ.)

مَاجَتِ النَّاسُ ‡ The people were in a discordant and disturbed state of affairs. (Mṣb.)

مَاجَ عَنِ الحَقِّ, inf. n. مَوْجٌ, ‡ He declined from the truth, or from the true, right, or just, course. (A, Ḳ.)

مَاجَتِ الدَّاغِصَةُ, inf. n. مُؤُوجٌ, ‡ The patella, or knee-pan, moved backwards and forwards, or from side to side, between the skin and the bone, or, as in one copy of the Ḳ, flesh: (Ḳ, TA:) and in like manner السِّلْعَةُ [the ganglion]. (TA.)

مَوْجٌ, [a coll. gen. n., Waves; billows; surges; or a collection of waves;] water rising above other water: (TA:) pl. أَمْوَاجٌ: (Ṣ, Ḳ, Mṣb:) مَوْجَةٌ has a more special signification; [namely, a wave, a single wave;] and the pl. of this, which is the n. un., is مَوْجَاتٌ. (Mṣb.)

فَرَسٌ غَوْجٌ مَوْجٌ: see art. غوج. موج is here an imitative sequent. (TA.)

مَوْجَةُ الشَّبَابِ ‡ The prime of youth. (Ḳ.)

ناقة مَوْجَى † A swift (نَاجِيَة: in the CK نَاجِبَة) she-camel, whose أَنْسَاع [or woven thongs of the fore girth] have moved round (جَالَت) by reason of the backward and forward motion (اِخْتِلَاف) of her fore and hind legs. (Ḳ.)

مَوَّاجٌ [A sea tumultuous with waves]. (Ḳ, art. رد.)

مَائِجٌ A sea in a state of commotion; tumultuous; agitated with waves, conflicting, or dashing together. (TA.)

Also, andمُتَمَوِّجٌ↓, A man in a state of commotion, or agitation. (TA.)