عجن

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ع ج ن (ʿ-j-n).

Verb

عَجَنَ (ʿajana) I, non-past يَعْجِنُ or يَعْجُنُ‎ (yaʿjinu or yaʿjunu)

  1. to knead, to press with the hand, to clinch

Conjugation

Verb

عَجِنَ (ʿajina) I, non-past يَعْجَنُ‎ (yaʿjanu)

  1. to become fat; to be fat
  2. to be swollen, to labor from a tumor

Conjugation

Noun

عَجْن (ʿajn) m

  1. verbal noun of عَجَنَ (ʿajana) (form I)

Declension

Noun

عَجَن (ʿajan) m

  1. verbal noun of عَجِنَ (ʿajina) (form I)

Declension

Adjective

عَجِن (ʿajin) (feminine عَجِنَة (ʿajina), elative أَعْجَن (ʾaʿjan))

  1. kneaded, clinched
  2. compact, firm by reason of fatness; stout
  3. affected by a tumor

Declension

References

  • عجن” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), عجن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 116
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), عجن”, 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 185
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), عجن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1968
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), عجن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 816
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