ع ج ن

Arabic

Root

ع ج ن • (ʕ-j-n)

1. related to being compressed or packed together in a mass; the property of being wrung, clinched, kneaded, or thoroughly worked over

Derived terms

• Form I: عَجَنَ (ʕajana, “to knead”)
  • Verbal noun: عَجْن (ʕajn)
  • Active participle: عَاجِن (ʕājin)
  • Passive participle: مَعْجُون (maʕjūn)
• Form I: عَجِنَ (ʕajina, “to be swollen”)
  • Verbal noun: عَجَن (ʕajan)
  • Active participle: عَاجِن (ʕājin)
• Form IV: أَعْجَنَ (ʔaʕjana)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْجَان (ʔiʕjān)
  • Active participle: مُعْجِن (muʕjin)
  • Passive participle: مُعْجَن (muʕjan)
• Form VII: اِنْعَجَنَ (inʕajana, “to be kneaded”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْعِجَان (inʕijān)
  • Active participle: مُنْعَجِن (munʕajin)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَجَنَ (iʕtajana, “to knead”)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِجَان (iʕtijān)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَجِن (muʕtajin)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَجَن (muʕtajan)

• عَجِين (ʕajīn, “kneaded; dough”)
• عَجِينَة (ʕajīna, “dough, paste”)
• عَجِن (ʕajin, “kneaded; compact; swollen”)
• عِجَان (ʕijān, “perineum”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ج ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 116-117
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ج ن”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 185-186
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ج ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1968
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ع ج ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 816