لج

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Arabic

Root
ل ج ج (l j j)
2 terms

Etymology 1.1

Pronunciation

Verb

لَجَّ (lajja) I (first-person singular past لَجِجْتُ (lajijtu), non-past يَلَجُّ (yalajju), verbal noun لَجَج (lajaj) or لَجَاج (lajāj) or لَجَاجَة (lajāja))
لَجَّ (lajja) I (non-past يَلِجُّ (yalijju), verbal noun لَجَجَ (lajaja) or لَجَاج (lajāj) or لَجَاجَة (lajāja))

  1. to be stubborn, to be obstinate
  2. to insist, to be pertinacious, to be dogged
  3. to persist, to continue
  4. to bother, to pester
  5. to weaken, to exhaust, to harass
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

Noun

لُجّ (lujjm (plural لُجَج (lujaj) or لِجَاج (lijāj))

  1. chasm, gulf; gap
    • 2017 December 22, “ضبط نحو ألف حبة مخدرة بطريقها للدخول إلى واسط”, in The Baghdad Post:
      اعلن مدير اعلام شرطة قيادة محافظة واسط، حسن عواد، اليوم الجمعة، ضبط شرطة المحافظة نحو الف حبة مخدرة في سيطرة اللج كانت مخفية بداخل محرك سيارة.
      The Press Director of the Police Headquarters of the Province of Wāsiṭ, Hasan ʿuwād, has announced that on Friday the police of the province has seized around a thousand narcotic pills in the control of a gap hidden in the interior of a car engine.
  2. abyss, depth of the sea
Declension

References

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لج”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 967