فوج

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier فَيْج (fayj, “legman, courier; company”), borrowed from Middle Persian (pdk' /⁠payg⁠/, “foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier”) (Classical Persian پیگ (payg)).

Pronunciation

Noun

فَوْج • (fawj) m (plural أَفْوَاج (ʔafwāj))

  1. company, group, crowd, drove, swarm
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 110:2:
      وَرَأَيْتَ ٱلنَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِينِ ٱللّٰهِ أَفْوَاجًا
      wa-raʔayta n-nāsa yadḵulūna fī dīni llāhi ʔafwājan
      And you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes
  2. (military) cohort, battalion, regiment (a military unit of size varying by state)
  3. (mining) shift, layer, stratum (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Declension

Declension of noun فَوْج (fawj)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَوْج
fawj 		الْفَوْج
al-fawj 		فَوْج
fawj
Nominative فَوْجٌ
fawjun 		الْفَوْجُ
al-fawju 		فَوْجُ
fawju
Accusative فَوْجًا
fawjan 		الْفَوْجَ
al-fawja 		فَوْجَ
fawja
Genitive فَوْجٍ
fawjin 		الْفَوْجِ
al-fawji 		فَوْجِ
fawji
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَوْجَيْن
fawjayn 		الْفَوْجَيْن
al-fawjayn 		فَوْجَيْ
fawjay
Nominative فَوْجَانِ
fawjāni 		الْفَوْجَانِ
al-fawjāni 		فَوْجَا
fawjā
Accusative فَوْجَيْنِ
fawjayni 		الْفَوْجَيْنِ
al-fawjayni 		فَوْجَيْ
fawjay
Genitive فَوْجَيْنِ
fawjayni 		الْفَوْجَيْنِ
al-fawjayni 		فَوْجَيْ
fawjay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَفْوَاج
ʔafwāj 		الْأَفْوَاج
al-ʔafwāj 		أَفْوَاج
ʔafwāj
Nominative أَفْوَاجٌ
ʔafwājun 		الْأَفْوَاجُ
al-ʔafwāju 		أَفْوَاجُ
ʔafwāju
Accusative أَفْوَاجًا
ʔafwājan 		الْأَفْوَاجَ
al-ʔafwāja 		أَفْوَاجَ
ʔafwāja
Genitive أَفْوَاجٍ
ʔafwājin 		الْأَفْوَاجِ
al-ʔafwāji 		أَفْوَاجِ
ʔafwāji

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “فوج” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فوج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 379
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فوج”, 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 643
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فوج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2455
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فوج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 986

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَوْج (fawj).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? fawj
Dari reading? fawj
Iranian reading? fowj
Tajik reading? favj

Noun

Dari فوج
Iranian Persian
Tajik фавҷ

فوج • (fowj)

  1. (archaic) group, company
  2. (archaic) a regiment
    Synonyms: هنگ (hang), رژیمان (režimân)

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَوْج (fawj), from Arabic فَوْج (fawj). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi فوج (fvj /⁠fauj⁠/).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

فَوج • (fauj) f (formal plural اَفْواج (afvāj), Hindi spelling फ़ौज)

  1. army (military; force)
    Synonym: سینا (senā)
  2. (figuratively) a horde (both in terms of items or people).

Declension

    Declension of فوج
singular plural
direct فوج (fauj) فوجیں (faujẽ)
oblique فوج (fauj) فوجوں (faujõ)
vocative فوج (fauj) فوجو (faujo)

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “فوج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • “فوج”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “فوج”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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