Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From the root ع ج ن (ʕ-j-n).

Verb edit

عَجَنَ (ʕajana) I, non-past يَعْجِنُ or يَعْجُنُ‎ (yaʕjinu or yaʕjunu)

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

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

عَجِنَ (ʕajina) I, non-past يَعْجَنُ‎ (yaʕjanu)

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

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

عَجْن (ʕajnm

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

Declension edit

Noun edit

عَجَن (ʕajanm

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

Declension edit

Adjective edit

عَجِن (ʕajin) (feminine عَجِنَة (ʕajina), elative أَعْجَن (ʔaʕjan))

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

Declension edit

References edit

  • 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

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
ع ج ن
1 term

Etymology edit

From Arabic عَجَنَ (ʕajana).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʕa.ʒan/, [ˈʕa.ʒan], [ˈʕa.d͡ʒan]
  • (file)

Verb edit

عجن (ʕajan) I (present بعجن (biʕjin))

  1. to knead

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of عجن (ʕajan)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m عجنت (ʕajant) عجنت (ʕajant) عجن (ʕajan) عجننا (ʕajanna) عجنتو (ʕajantu) عجنو (ʕajanu)
f عجنتي (ʕajanti) عجنت (ʕajnat)
present m بعجن (baʕjin) بتعجن (btiʕjin) بعجن (biʕjin) منعجن (mniʕjin) بتعجنو (btiʕjinu) بعجنو (biʕjinu)
f بتعجني (btiʕjini) بتعجن (btiʕjin)
subjunctive m أعجن (ʔaʕjin) تعجن (tiʕjin) يعجن (yiʕjin) نعجن (niʕjin) تعجنو (tiʕjinu) يعجنو (yiʕjinu)
f تعجني (tiʕjini) تعجن (tiʕjin)
imperative m اعجن (iʕjin) اعجنو (iʕjinu)
f اعجني (iʕjini)