مجس

Noun of place from the root ج س س (j-s-s).

• IPA^(key): /ma.d͡ʒass/

مَجَسّ • (majass) m (plural مَجَاسّ (majāss))

1. place which one touches to make a judgment from it

• “مجس” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “مجس”, 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 277
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “مجس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 423

Tool noun from the root ج س س (j-s-s).

• IPA^(key): /mi.d͡ʒass/

مِجَسّ • (mijass) m (plural مَجَاسّ (majāss))

1. sensor, probe

• “مجس” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “مجس”, 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 277
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “مجس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 423

Denominal verb of مَجُوس (majūs, “Zoroastrians”, collective), forming the root م ج س (m-j-s).

• IPA^(key): /mad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa.sa/

مَجَّسَ • (majjasa) II (non-past يُمَجِّسُ (yumajjisu), verbal noun تَمْجِيس (tamjīs))

1. to Zoroastrianize, to teach someone Zoroastrianism
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 23:137:

     كُلُّ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ، فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ أَوْ يُنَصِّرَانِهِ أَوْ يُمَجِّسَانِهِ

     kullu mawlūdin yūladu ʕalā l-fiṭrati, faʔabawāhu yuhawwidānihi ʔaw yunaṣṣirānihi ʔaw yumajjisānihi

     Every newborn is born upon the fitra (i.e., in a state of submission to God or al-islām); its parents then Judaize or Christianize or Zoroastrianize it.

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “مجس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

From Arabic مَجَسّ (majass).

• IPA^(key): /ma.d͡ʒass/

مجس • (majass) m (plural مَجَسَّات (majassāt))

1. Majass; a type of folkloric singing (Mawwal)

   المجس الحجازي حلو

   al-Majass al-ḥijāzi ḥilu

   The Hijazi Majas is nice