ح د ج

Arabic

Etymology

Recalls ه د ج (h-d-j) where هَدَجَ (hadaja, “to walk in a trembling fashion”) (considering that one does that when carrying heavy loads, as well as when one has eaten colocynths: حَظِلَ (ḥaẓila) related to حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal, “colocynth”) means exactly walking lamely especially after having eaten colocynths) and هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter for carrying”). Seemingly just extended from د ج ج (d-j-j) where دَجَّ (dajja, “to walk along gently”), though parallelled by Ugaritic 𐎈𐎄𐎂 (ḥdg, “litter or chair for a woman”). According to Dillmann Ge'ez አድግ (ʾädg, “ass, donkey”) also belongs here.

Root

ح د ج • (ḥ-d-j)

1. related to burdening (also figuratively)

Derived terms

• Form I: حَدَجَ (ḥadaja, “to load; to cast (a look)”)
  • Verbal noun: حَدْج (ḥadj ), حِدَاج (ḥidāj ), حُدُوج (ḥudūj)
  • Active participle: حَادِج (ḥādij)
  • Passive participle: مَحْدُوج (maḥdūj)
• Form II: حَدَّجَ (ḥaddaja, “to look”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْدِيج (taḥdīj)
  • Active participle: مُحَدِّج (muḥaddij)
  • Passive participle: مُحَدَّج (muḥaddaj)
• Form IV: أَحْدَجَ (ʔaḥdaja, “to load, to saddle; to bring colocynths”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْدَاج (ʔiḥdāj)
  • Active participle: مُحْدِج (muḥdij)
  • Passive participle: مُحْدَج (muḥdaj)

• حِدْج m (ḥidj, “burden, load, palanquin”)
• حِدَاجَة f (ḥidāja, “palanquin, gurney”)
• حَدَج m (ḥadaj, “colocynth, melon”)

Further reading

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 319–320
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح د ج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 353