دجر

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دجْر

Etymology 1

Unknown, with analogs only in Modern South ArabianMehri ديجر (dēdžer, dēdžir, dīdžer), Shehri دجرة (dəgərɛt), collective دجر (dúgur, dúger), Soqotri دنجة (déngoh), collective دجر (dégər, dígir) – and Cushitic – shown as descendants here assuming they agglutinated the Arabic article. Maybe metathesized from Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, long) comparing Ancient Greek δόλιχος (dólikhos, yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis), literally long) likely calqued from India.

Noun

دِجْر or دُجْر or دَجْر (dijr or dujr or dajrm

  1. cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)
    Synonym: لُوبِيَا (lūbiyā)
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

دَجِرَ (dajira) I, non-past يَدْجَرُ‎ (yadjaru)

  1. to be sprightly, to be brisk, to be lively, to be exulting
  2. to be stupified or embarrassed, to be perplexed
Conjugation

Noun

دَجَر (dajarm

  1. verbal noun of دَجِرَ (dajira) (form I)
Declension

Adjective

دَجِر (dajir)

  1. sprightly, brisk, lively, exulting
  2. stupified or embarrassed, perplexed
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “دجر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 8b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دجر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 6711
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “دجر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 852–853c
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 512
  • Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 143
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “دجر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 314a