لجج

لَجَّ

To apply oneself constantly, perseveringly, or assiduously to an affair.

A general Form I use for sustained application to a matter, without the Quranic implication of defiant wrongdoing.

• Lane · entry 20550

لَجَّ

To persist in contention, litigation, wrangling, or opposition; to contend or quarrel.

Used of persistence in an adversarial affair or verbal dispute.

• Lane · entry 9388

لَجَّجَ

To enter or embark upon the deep sea.

Used especially of a ship or of embarking upon the لُجَّة, the main or fathomless sea.

• Lane · entry 9389

لَاجَّجَ

To wrangle, quarrel, or contend with another.

A reciprocal or relational use, including tongues persisting in disputes.

• Lane · entry 9390

أَلَجَّ

To cause someone to continue or persevere in a thing.

This is reported as an interpretation of the Quranic expression يُمَدُّهُمْ; the reported attribution is accompanied by doubt about the Arabic usage.

• Lane · entry 9391

أَلَجَّ

To cry out or utter confused cries.

Used of people, camels, sheep, or goats producing a cry or confused clamour.

• Lane · entry 9391

تَلَجَّجَ

To fluctuate in the bosom, or to come and go repeatedly.

Used of a thing that repeatedly moves or recurs within someone’s breast or inner state.

• Lane · entry 9392

تَلَاجَّجَ

To wrangle, quarrel, or contend with one another.

A reciprocal construction expressing mutual dispute.

• Lane · entry 9393

اِلْتَجَّ

To become tumultuous and confused, with waves dashing together; of the sea, to become vast and turbulent.

Used of the sea or its waves when their movement becomes great, confused, and agitated.

• Lane · entry 9394

اِلْتَجَّ

For voices or sounds to become confused, or to rise high and become confused.

Used of a mixture or tumult of sounds.

• Lane · entry 9394

اِلْتَجَّ

For darkness to become intricate, dense, and confused.

A figurative use applied to darkness.

• Lane · entry 9394

اِلْتَجَّ

For an affair to become great and confused.

A marked figurative extension from tumultuous or confused movement.

• Lane · entry 9394

اِلْتَجَّ

For a wide desert to become a sea-like scene of mirage.

A figurative poetic construction comparing the desert’s apparent expanse to a fathomless sea.

• Lane · entry 9394

اِلْتَجَّ

To be intensely black, of an eye.

A figurative use based on the dark depth of the sea.

• Lane · entry 9394

لَجْلَجَ

To speak indistinctly, with a heavy or defective tongue; to hesitate, reiterate, stammer, or stutter in speech.

Describes speech in which its parts are not uttered plainly and consecutively.

• Lane · entry 9395

لَجْلَجَ

To move a morsel of food repeatedly backward and forward in the mouth while chewing it.

Used of handling a morsel that is not readily swallowed.

• Lane · entry 9395

لُجّ

The side or shore of a valley or sea; a rugged part of a mountain.

A nominal geographical use distinct from the deep-sea sense of لُجَّة.

• Lane · entry 9396

لُجّ

A sword, by metaphorical association with the terror or force of the sea.

A rare, dialectally attributed or figurative use.

• Lane · entry 9396

لَجَّة

Voices, cries, clamour, or a confused mixture of sounds.

Used of the clamour of people and sometimes of camels.

• Lane · entry 9397

لُجَّة

Figuratively, a vast or fathomless expanse, including a person likened to a sea in breadth or a great expanse of mirage.

A metaphorical extension of the sea sense to breadth and apparently boundless expanses.

• Lane · entry 9398

لُجَّة

Figuratively, intense depth or blackness, especially of darkness, night, or an eye; also a deeply black animal.

A metaphorical use based on the dark depth of deep water.

• Lane · entry 9398

لُجَّة

A numerous assembly, company, troop, or congregated body.

A figurative collective use derived from the image of a great sea.

• Lane · entry 9398

لُجَّة

The main or principal part of an affair.

A figurative expression for the central or substantial portion of a matter.

• Lane · entry 9398

لُجَّة

A mirror.

A rare tropical use recorded as a separate nominal extension.

• Lane · entry 9396

لُجَّة

Silver.

A rare tropical nominal use.

• Lane · entry 9396

لَجُوج

One who persists greatly or obstinately, refuses to turn back, or is very contentious or litigious.

An intensive epithet applicable to a human being or a horse; the feminine form is لَجُوجَة.

• Lane · entry 9403

لَجَاجَة

Restless fluttering of the heart that does not settle, especially from hunger.

A specialized nominal use developed from the notion of unrest and repeated movement.

• Mufradāt · row 1291
• Maqāyīs · row 4110

لَجْلَج

Confused or indirect in expression, causing hesitation rather than clear utterance.

In the proverbial contrast between manifest truth and falsity that is confused in speech and action.

• Lane · entry 9405

لَجْلَجَة

A mixture or confusion of voices or sounds.

A nominal description of indistinct or intermingled sound.

• Lane · entry 9406

لَجْلَاج

One who speaks indistinctly, hesitates, reiterates, stammers, or stutters.

Describes a natural heaviness or defect of speech, including a tongue that moves unclearly in the mouth.

• Lane · entry 9407

مُلْتَجَّة

Intensely black, of an eye.

A tropical adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 9409

مُلْتَجَّة

Intensely green or densely covered, of land or its herbage; compact, tall, and abundant in growth.

Used of land whose vegetation is dense, whether or not it is tangled.

• Lane · entry 9409

يَلَنْجُوج

Aloeswood or another aromatic wood used for fumigation.

A foreign or quasi-quinqueliteral plant name with several recorded variants; its association with this root is lexical rather than a regular root derivation.

• Lane · entry 9410