Quranic root
أجج
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A root associated with audible rustling and with intense, burning force, expressed in flame, heat, harsh salinity, and related forms of commotion.
The lexical field extends from the hiss or rustle of blazing fire and rapid movement to fierce heat and brightness; applied to water, the burning quality is experienced as intense salinity or bitterness. The traditional association of يَأْجُوجُ and مَأْجُوجُ with this field is reported alongside competing etymologies.
- Maqāyīs · row 33
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أُجَاج
ʾujāj
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Intensely saline or bitter water that burns the mouth; harsh, undrinkable water.
Used in the Quran of water. The lexical explanation combines intense salinity with burning heat, while the supplied Quranic contexts render the word as “salty” or “bitter.”
- Lane · entry 6189
- Mufradāt · row 17
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 20 Classical meanings
أَجَّ
Of fire, to burn fiercely, blaze, or flame; also to make the characteristic sound of fiercely blazing fire.
Intransitive Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 6183
أَجَّ
To hasten or move quickly, at a pace between walking and running.
Used of a person, camel, or running ostrich.
- Lane · entry 6183
أَجَّ
To make a rustling or other noise while moving.
Applied to an ostrich's running, a camel's saddle as it moves, or comparable movement.
- Lane · entry 6183
أَجِيحٌ
The sound of water as it pours forth.
A lexical noun associated with the movement or pouring of water.
- Lane · entry 6183
أَجَّ
Of water, to become intensely saline, bitter, or burning to the mouth.
Intransitive Form I construction with water as subject.
- Lane · entry 6183
أَجَّهُ
To make water intensely saline, bitter, or burning to the mouth.
Transitive Form I construction.
- Lane · entry 6183
أَجَّجَ
To make a fire burn or blaze fiercely.
Causative Form II verb.
- Lane · entry 6184
أَجَّجَ
To kindle evil or mischief among people.
Figurative Form II construction.
- Lane · entry 6184
تَأَجَّجَ
To flare up, give light, or shine brightly.
Form V verb; the usage may describe intense brightness rather than only literal fire.
- Lane · entry 6185
ائْتَجَّ
To become intensely hot or fiercely burning.
Used of the day or its heat; Form VIII verb.
- Lane · entry 6186
أَجَّةٌ
Intense heat or fierce burning.
A noun for vehement heat, including the heat of summer.
- Lane · entry 6187
أَجَّةٌ
The sound of fire.
A noun for the audible aspect of blazing or flaming.
- Lane · entry 6187
أَجَّةٌ
The rustling, noise, and commotion produced by an ostrich running or by people walking or passing along.
A noun for noise associated with movement.
- Lane · entry 6187
أَجَّةٌ
Confusion or noisy disorder among people.
Especially the confusion arising from collective talking and the sound of people moving about.
- Lane · entry 6187
أُجَاجٌ
Anything that burns the mouth through intense saltiness, bitterness, or heat.
Used especially of water; such water may be so intensely salty or bitter that it is unfit for drinking, irrigation, or other use.
- Lane · entry 6189
أَجُوجٌ
Giving light or shining brightly.
An adjectival or nominal description of something luminous.
- Lane · entry 6191
أَجَّاجٌ
Vehemently hot or fiercely burning.
Used of the intense heat of summer midday.
- Lane · entry 6193
الأَوَاجِجُ
Fiercely burning hot winds.
A plural expression used for intensely hot winds.
- Lane · entry 6196
يَأْجُوجٌ
One who walks quickly and runs in varied ways.
A lexical use distinct from the proper-name expression يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ.
- Lane · entry 6199
يَأْجُوجُ
Gog and Magog: names for two tribes or great nations.
A proper-name expression; the accounts of their identity and derivation vary in the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 6199
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form أُجَاج is kept as one harsh-taste sense: “salty” and “bitter” are contextual renderings of the same lexical branch, with heat and mouth-burning force also recorded in the lexical explanation.
The Lane material on يَأْجُوجُ is presented as a separate Classical lexical item rather than as a sense of the Quranic form أُجَاج; its derivation and precise identification are disputed.