Quranic root
هيج
h · y · j
The root has two established semantic axes: the stirring or eruption of something, and the drying or yellowing of vegetation.
The first axis extends from things becoming agitated, raised, or set in motion to causative arousal, conflict, and related states. The second specifically describes plants becoming dry and yellow.
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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.
هَاجَ
hāja
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Of vegetation: to dry up, wither, and become yellow.
Used of plants or herbage as they lose their freshness and dry out; the Quranic occurrences describe vegetation after its growth.
- Lane · entry 10815
Selected Quran examples
Quran 39:21word 20
“they wither”
Quran 57:20word 20
“it dries”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 29 Classical meanings
هَاجَ
To become agitated, roused, stirred, or provoked; to be in a state of commotion.
An intransitive use applied to things such as blood, bile, or dust, and also to a general state of agitation.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
Of a stallion-camel: to become sexually excited and seek intercourse.
A specialized use describing a male camel excited by lust, with associated braying and loss of condition.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
Of the eye: to become inflamed, painful, and swollen.
A medical use equivalent to becoming affected with ophthalmia.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
To become hostile toward someone, attack, or engage in satirical exchange.
Used of a person becoming excited against another and of satire arising between two parties.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
Of war, evil, or strife: to break out, become inflamed, or be stirred up among people.
Used for conflict or evil arising between groups or within a community.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
Of the sky: to become cloudy and windy, bringing rain.
A weather expression describing the sky becoming disturbed before or during rainfall.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَيَّجَ
To raise, rouse, excite, stir up, or provoke something or someone.
A transitive and often intensive causative use, including raising dust, rousing a camel or a person, evoking longing, or causing evil to stir.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
To disquiet or frighten a person.
A causative-result use focused on disturbance or fear rather than simple agitation.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
To put camels in motion toward their watering place or pasture.
A specialized pastoral use, especially describing driving the camels by night.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَاجَ
Of camels: to thirst.
A specialized use describing camels becoming thirsty.
- Lane · entry 10815
هَايَجَ
To fight with someone or engage in combat with him.
A reciprocal Form III construction involving direct conflict.
- Lane · entry 10817
هِيَاجٌ
A day of fighting or combat.
Used in the expression يَوْمُ الهِيَاجِ for a day marked by conflict.
- Lane · entry 10817
أَهَاجَ
To cause plants or herbage to dry up; to find land with its vegetation already dried.
A Form IV causative or resultant construction concerning dried vegetation.
- Lane · entry 10818
تَهَايَجَ
To leap or spring up together to fight one another.
A reciprocal Form VI use describing combatants rising against each other.
- Lane · entry 10820
هَيْجٌ
Civil war, factional conflict, discord, or dissension.
A nominal use for serious conflict or division among people.
- Lane · entry 10823
هَيْجٌ
Excitement or arousal, including agitation of the blood, sexual arousal, or longing desire.
A nominal expression for an excited or stirred state in bodily, sexual, or emotional contexts.
- Lane · entry 10823
هَيْجٌ
A day of wind, clouds, mist, or rain; also the first rising of a cloud.
Used in weather expressions and of a cloud presenting a promising appearance as it rises.
- Lane · entry 10823
هَيْجٌ
Yellowness or a state of drying up, especially in vegetation.
A nominal use associated with plants becoming dry and yellow.
- Lane · entry 10823
هِيجِ
A cry used to chide or urge a she-camel.
An indeclinable interjection or call directed at a she-camel.
- Lane · entry 10824
هَاجَةٌ
A ewe that does not desire the ram.
A specialized animal term describing lack of sexual receptivity.
- Lane · entry 10825
هَاجَةٌ
A female frog.
A zoological noun with this specific lexical sense.
- Lane · entry 10825
هَاجَةٌ
An ostrich.
A zoological noun; the cited form also has the plural هَاجَاتٌ.
- Lane · entry 10825
هَيْجَاءُ
War.
A feminine-form noun used as a name for warfare.
- Lane · entry 10827
هَيُوجٌ
A thing or person that strongly raises, rouses, excites, stirs up, or provokes.
An intensive active epithet with transitive force.
- Lane · entry 10830
هَائِجٌ
An ebullition of anger, rage, or passion.
Used of anger or passion becoming violently stirred and later subsiding.
- Lane · entry 10831
هَائِجٌ
A stallion excited by sexual desire.
A specialized active-participial use describing a male animal seeking intercourse.
- Lane · entry 10831
هَائِجٌ
Of land or leguminous plants: dried up or yellowing.
An adjective describing vegetation that has dried or is drying and has become yellow.
- Lane · entry 10831
مِهْيَاجٌ
A she-camel excited by longing for its accustomed place and hastening toward it.
A specialized animal term for a camel driven by desire for its home or habitual place.
- Lane · entry 10832
مِهْيَاجٌ
A camel that becomes thirsty before the other camels.
A specialized pastoral noun describing the camel's comparatively early thirst.
- Lane · entry 10832