بجع

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See also: نجع

Arabic

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Etymology

From a variant of ب ج ج (b-j-j) meaning "to be fat or flabby", "to have shaking or loose flesh", "to be swollen" especially in the face or neck.

Noun

بَجَع (bajaʕm (collective, singulative بَجَعَة f (bajaʕa), paucal بَجَعَات (bajaʕāt))

  1. pelican
  2. (proscribed) swan

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “بجع”, 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 86