ح د ج

Arabic

Etymology

Recalls ه د ج (h-d-j) where هَدَجَ (hadaja, to walk in a trembling fashion) (considering that one does that when carrying heavy loads, as well as when one has eaten colocynths: حَظِلَ (ḥaẓila) related to حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal, colocynth) means exactly walking lamely especially after having eaten colocynths) and هَوْدَج (hawdaj, litter for carrying). Seemingly just extended from د ج ج (d-j-j) where دَجَّ (dajja, to walk along gently), though parallelled by Ugaritic 𐎈𐎄𐎂 (ḥdg, litter or chair for a woman). According to Dillmann Ge'ez አድግ (ʾädg, ass, donkey) also belongs here.

Root

ح د ج • (ḥ-d-j)

  1. related to burdening (also figuratively)

Derived terms

  • Form I: حَدَجَ (ḥadaja, to load; to cast (a look))
    • Verbal noun: حَدْج (ḥadj ), حِدَاج (ḥidāj ), حُدُوج (ḥudūj)
    • Active participle: حَادِج (ḥādij)
    • Passive participle: مَحْدُوج (maḥdūj)
  • Form II: حَدَّجَ (ḥaddaja, to look)
    • Verbal noun: تَحْدِيج (taḥdīj)
    • Active participle: مُحَدِّج (muḥaddij)
    • Passive participle: مُحَدَّج (muḥaddaj)
  • Form IV: أَحْدَجَ (ʔaḥdaja, to load, to saddle; to bring colocynths)
    • Verbal noun: إِحْدَاج (ʔiḥdāj)
    • Active participle: مُحْدِج (muḥdij)
    • Passive participle: مُحْدَج (muḥdaj)

Further reading

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 319–320
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح د ج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 353
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