Quranic root
وجس
w · j · s
Sensing something through attentive perception, especially by hearing.
The lexical field connects faint or barely perceived sound with attentive listening and with an inward apprehension or thought arising in the mind.
- Maqāyīs · row 5038
- Mufradāt · row 1555
- Lane · entry 45021
- Lane · entry 45024
- Lane · entry 45029
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أَوْجَسَ
ʾawjasa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
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To feel inward apprehension or fear; to conceive fear in the mind.
In the Quranic usages, the fear is inwardly sensed or conceived, occurring with constructions such as في نفسه خيفةً and منهم خيفةً.
- Lane · entry 45023
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Occurrences in the Quran
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Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 12 Classical meanings
وَجَسَ
To be frightened by a sound or by another thing that enters the mind or ear.
An intransitive Form I usage; the stimulus may be a sound or another perceived thing.
- Lane · entry 45021
وَجَسَ
To be hidden, imperceptible, barely perceived, or faint and soft.
Applied to something scarcely perceived by the eye, ear, or mind.
- Lane · entry 45021
أَوْجَسَ
To conceive or harbor something inwardly in the mind.
A broader Classical Form IV use; the Quranic fear construction is treated separately above.
- Lane · entry 45023
وَجْسٌ
A fright or apprehension arising in the heart or ear from a sound or another thing.
A verbal noun and noun of the experience of inward fright.
- Lane · entry 45026
وَجْسٌ
A low, faint, gentle, or soft sound.
The lexical sense is general; a reported special use concerns a low sound audible to another person.
- Lane · entry 45026
تَوَجَّسَ
To listen for, perceive, or hear a low, faint, gentle, or soft sound.
The subject may be an attentive listener or an ear; the action can involve trying to hear a scarcely audible sound.
- Lane · entry 45024
تَوَجَّسَ
To seek news or tidings without others knowing.
A conventional usage describing discreet inquiry.
- Lane · entry 45024
تَوَجَّسَ
To taste food or drink repeatedly, taking only a little at a time.
Describes gradual tasting in small successive amounts.
- Lane · entry 45024
وَجَّاسٌ
A knowledgeable or skillful person, especially one skilled in tracking or circumventing game and attentive to its sounds and movements.
An epithet whose explanation combines general knowledge with specialized attentiveness in game-tracking.
- Lane · entry 45028
وَاجِسٌ
An opinion, idea, or object of thought arising in the mind.
A mental thought or impulse, synonymous with a thought or idea that occurs inwardly.
- Lane · entry 45029
أَوْجَسُ
A small amount of food or drink; a drop.
Reported especially in negative expressions, such as saying that one did not taste any food or that no drop remained.
- Lane · entry 45030
الأَوْجَسُ
Time or eternity.
Also reported in the variant الأَوْجُسُ and used in idioms meaning forever or as long as time lasts.
- Lane · entry 45030