موج

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Arabic

Root
م و ج (m-w-j)

Pronunciation

  • (noun) IPA(key): /mawd͡ʒ/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /maw.wa.d͡ʒa/

Noun

مَوْج (mawjm (collective, singulative مَوْجَة f (mawja), plural أَمْوَاج (ʔamwāj))

  1. torrent, surge, waves

Declension

Descendants

Verb

مَوَّجَ (mawwaja) II, non-past يُمَوِّجُ‎ (yumawwiju)

  1. (transitive) to wave (the hair)
  2. (transitive) to ripple

Conjugation

Derived terms

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Noun

موج (transliteration needed)

  1. wave

Descendants

Hijazi Arabic

Root
م و ج
2 terms

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Pronunciation

Noun

موج (mōjm (collective, singulative موجة f (mōja), plural موجات (mōjāt) or أمواج (ʔamwāj))

  1. torrent, surge, waves

Etymology 2

From Arabic مَوَّجَ (mawwaja).

Pronunciation

Verb

مَوَّج (mawwaj) II (non-past يِمَوِّج (yimawwij))

  1. to mix up colors, to degrade colors
Conjugation
    Conjugation of موج (mawwaj)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m موجت (mawwajt) موجت (mawwajt) موج (mawwaj) موجنا (mawwajna) موجتوا (mawwajtu) موجوا (mawwaju)
f موجتي (mawwajti) موجت (mawwajat)
non-past m أموج (ʔamawwij) تموج (timawwij) يموج (yimawwij) نموج (nimawwij) تموجوا (timawwiju) يموجوا (yimawwiju)
f تموجي (timawwiji) تموج (timawwij)
imperative m موج (mawwij) موجوا (mawwiju)
f موجي (mawwiji)

Kashmiri

Etymology

From Sanskrit महल्लिका (mahallikā, old, feeble).

Pronunciation

Noun

موج (mōjf (Devanagari मोज)

  1. mother

Alternative forms

Coordinate terms

Moroccan Arabic

Root
م و ج
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Pronunciation

Noun

موج (mūj, mawjm (collective, singulative موجة f (mūja, mawja), paucal موجات (mūjāt, mawjāt), plural مواج (mwāj))

  1. waves

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj, wave).

Noun

موج (mevc) (plural امواج (emvac))

  1. wave, billow, ripple, undulation, a regular movement in water
    Synonyms: تالاز (talaz), طالغه (dalga)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Noun

موج (transliteration needed?

  1. wave

Persian

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Wikipedia fa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? mawj
Dari reading? mawj
Iranian reading? mowj
Tajik reading? mavj
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Noun

Dari موج
Iranian Persian
Tajik мавҷ

موج (mowj) (plural موج‌ها (mowj-hâ) or امواج (amvâj))

  1. wave
    Synonyms: کوهه (kuhe), خیزاب (xizâb)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 1”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      شب تاریک و بیم موج و گردابی چنین هایل
      کجا دانند حال ما سبکباران ساحل‌ها
      šab-i tārīk u bīm-i mawj u girdābē čunīn hāyil
      kujā dānand hāl-i mā sabukbārān-i sāhil-hā
      The dark night, the fear of waves, so terrifying a whirlpool!
      How can the lightly burdened on the coast know our condition?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
    • c. 1400, Shams-i Maghribī, “Ghazal 9”, in دیوان شمس مغربی:
      اگر موجت از آن دریا درین صحرا کشد روزی
      چنانت غرقه گرداند که ناری یاد از صحرا
      agar mawj-at az ān daryā dar īn sahrā kušad rōzē
      čunān-at ğarqa gardānad ki n-ārī yād az sahrā
      If one day, the wave of that sea should kill you in this desert,
      It will drown you so much that you will remember nothing of the desert.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Related terms

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Noun

مَوْج (maujf (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੌਜ)

  1. wave

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مَوج”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Noun

مَوْجَ (maujaf (Devanagari मौज)

  1. wave

Further reading

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “مَوْجَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • موج”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

South Levantine Arabic

Root
م و ج
2 terms

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Pronunciation

Noun

موج (mōjm (collective, singulative موجة f (mōje), paucal موجات (mōjāt), plural أمواج (ʔamwāj))

  1. waves

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَوْج (mavjf (Hindi spelling मौज)

  1. a wave, surge, billow
  2. whim, caprice
  3. emotion, ecstasy
  4. heaps, abundance, plenty

Further reading

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “موج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.