Arabic edit

Root
ه ج و (h-j-w)

Verb edit

هَجَا (hajā) I, non-past يَهْجُو‎ (yahjū)

  1. to speak poorly of, to satirize, to dispraise or revile with words, to lampoon
    • وَكَمْ عَلَّمْتُهُ نَظْمَ الْقَوَافِي / فَلَمَّا قَالَ قَافِيَةً هَجَانِي
      wakam ʕallamtuhū naẓma l-qawāfī / falammā qāla qāfiyatan hajānī
      And how much have I taught him the organisation of rhymes / and when he spoke his rhyme, he dispraised me.
  2. to pronounce or speak of something's various traits or flaws
  3. to pronounce syllables, to spell out, to annunciate or make plain the various sounds of a word

Conjugation edit

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic هِجَاء (hijāʔ).

Noun edit

Dari هجا
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳиҷо

هجا (hejâ) (plural هجاها (hejâ-hâ))

  1. syllable

Synonyms edit