لاج

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

لَاجَ (lāja) I (non-past يَلُوجُ (yalūju), verbal noun لَوْج (lawj)) (obsolete)

  1. to turn and move around in the mouth, to circumvert orally
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Italian laccia.

Pronunciation

Noun

لَاج (lājm (obsolete, Tunisia)

  1. alose, shad
    • 1154, al-ʾIdrīsīy, نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق, الإقليم الأول - الجزء الثاني:
      وهذه البحيرة من أعاجيب الدنيا وذلك أن بها اثني عشر نوعاً من السمك يوجد منها في كل شهر نوع واحد لا يمتزج بغيره من أصناف السمك فإذا تم الشهر لم يوجد شيء من ذلك النوع في الشهر الآتي ثم يوجد في الشهر الآتي صنف من السمك آخر غير الصنف الأول لا يمتزج بغيره هكذا لكل شهر نوع من السمك لا يمتزج بسمك غيره إلى كمال السنة هكذا في كل عام وهذه الاثنا عشر نوع من الحوت التي ذكرناها هي البوري والقاجوج والمحل والطلنط والاشبلينيات والشلبة والقاروض واللاج والجوجة والكحلاء والطنفلو والقلا.
      This lake is one of the wonders of the world, for it has twelve species of fish, each month one is found therein, not mixing with any other species than itself, and when the month ends, nothing of that fish is found in the coming month, then in the coming month an other kind of fish is encountered, different from the first kind and not mixing with anything other than itself, thus every month a species of fish that does not mix with other fish, up to completion of a year and so every year, and these twelve species of fish that we have related are .
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Goeje, Michael Jan (1866) Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne par Edrîsî (in French), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 375–376
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لاج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 134a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لاج”, 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 1038b
  • Oman, Giovanni (1992) “Materiali per lo studio dell'ittionomia araba. Gli ittionimi nel 'Libro di Ruggero', XII sec.”, in Studi Maghrebini (in Italian), volume 24, Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, pages 1–28
  • Slim, Hédi, Trousset, Pol, Paskoff, Roland, Oueslati, Ameur, editors (2004), Le littoral de la Tunisie. Etude géoarchéologique et historique (Études d'Antiquités africaines)‎, Paris: CNRS Éditions, →ISBN, page 64b

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi لاج (laj /⁠lāj⁠/) (c. 1564) / لج (lj /⁠lajj⁠/) (c. 1609) / لجہ (ljh /⁠lajja⁠/) (c. 1599) / لجا (lja /⁠lajjā⁠/),[1] from Prakrit 𑀮𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀸 (lajjā), from Sanskrit लज्जा (lajjā).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

لاج (lājf (Hindi spelling लाज)

  1. modesty
    Synonyms: حَیَا (hayā), شَرْم (śarm), آبَرُو (ābarū)
  2. honour; good name
    Synonym: عِزَّت ('izzat)
  3. bashfulness; shyness
    Synonyms: شَرْمِنْدَگی (śarmindagī), خِجالَت (xijālat)

Declension

    Declension of لاج
singular plural
direct لاج (lāj) لاجیں (lājẽ)
oblique لاج (lāj) لاجوں (lājõ)
vocative لاج (lāj) لاجو (lājo)

References

  1. ^ لاج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lajjā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 631

Further reading

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