ر ج س

Arabic

Root

ر ج س • (r-j-s)

1. related to squalor

Derived terms

• Form I: رَجِسَ (rajisa, “to be dirty, to be filthy; to act shamefully, to do something shameful or disgraceful”)
  • Active participle: رَاجِس (rājis)
  • Passive participle: مَرْجُوس (marjūs, “filthy, abominable”)
• Form I: رَجُسَ (rajusa, “id.”)
  • Active participle: رَاجِس (rājis)
  • Passive participle: مَرْجُوس (marjūs, “filthy, abominable”)
• Form II: رَجَّسَ (rajjasa, “to sully, to make dirty; to cover with opprobrium, to make appear shameful”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْجِيس (tarjīs)
  • Active participle: مُرَجِّس (murajjis)
  • Passive participle: مُرَجَّس (murajjas)
• Form V: تَرَجَّسَ (tarajjasa, “to become filthy”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَجُّس (tarajjus)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَجِّس (mutarajjis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَرَجَّس (mutarajjas)

• رِجْس (rijs) and رَجَس (rajas, “filth; disgrace”)
• رَجِس (rajis, “filthy, abominable”)
• رَجَاسَة (rajāsa, “squalor”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ر ج س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 511
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ر ج س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 124–125
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ر ج س”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 825–826
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ر ج س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1037
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ر ج س”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 378