فوج
Arabic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From earlier فَيْج (fayj, “legman, courier; company”), borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pdk' /payg/, “foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier”) (Classical Persian پیگ (payg)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
فَوْج • (fawj) m (plural أَفْوَاج (ʔafwāj))
- company, group, crowd, drove, swarm
- (military) cohort, battalion, regiment (a military unit of size varying by state)
- (mining) shift, layer, stratum (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Declension edit
Declension of noun فَوْج (fawj)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | فَوْج fawj |
الْفَوْج al-fawj |
فَوْج fawj |
Nominative | فَوْجٌ fawjun |
الْفَوْجُ al-fawju |
فَوْجُ fawju |
Accusative | فَوْجًا fawjan |
الْفَوْجَ al-fawja |
فَوْجَ fawja |
Genitive | فَوْجٍ fawjin |
الْفَوْجِ al-fawji |
فَوْجِ fawji |
Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
Informal | فَوْجَيْن fawjayn |
الْفَوْجَيْن al-fawjayn |
فَوْجَيْ fawjay |
Nominative | فَوْجَانِ fawjāni |
الْفَوْجَانِ al-fawjāni |
فَوْجَا fawjā |
Accusative | فَوْجَيْنِ fawjayni |
الْفَوْجَيْنِ al-fawjayni |
فَوْجَيْ fawjay |
Genitive | فَوْجَيْنِ fawjayni |
الْفَوْجَيْنِ al-fawjayni |
فَوْجَيْ fawjay |
Plural | basic broken plural triptote | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | أَفْوَاج ʔafwāj |
الْأَفْوَاج al-ʔafwāj |
أَفْوَاج ʔafwāj |
Nominative | أَفْوَاجٌ ʔafwājun |
الْأَفْوَاجُ al-ʔafwāju |
أَفْوَاجُ ʔafwāju |
Accusative | أَفْوَاجًا ʔafwājan |
الْأَفْوَاجَ al-ʔafwāja |
أَفْوَاجَ ʔafwāja |
Genitive | أَفْوَاجٍ ʔafwājin |
الْأَفْوَاجِ al-ʔafwāji |
أَفْوَاجِ ʔafwāji |
Derived terms edit
- أَفَاجَ (ʔafāja, “to congregate”)
Descendants edit
- → Persian: فوج (fowj)
References edit
- “فوج” in Almaany
- Freytag, Georg (1835) “فوج”, 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, page 379
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فوج”, 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 Cie, page 643
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “فوج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2455
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فوج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 986
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic فَوْج (fawj).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [fawd͡ʒ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [fowd͡ʒ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [fäwd͡ʒ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | fawj |
Dari reading? | fawj |
Iranian reading? | fowj |
Tajik reading? | favj |
Noun edit
Dari | فوج |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | фавҷ |
فوج • (fowj)
Descendants edit
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian فَوْج (fawj), from Arabic فَوْج (fawj). First attested as Old Hindi فوج (fauj) in 1503 A.D
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /fɔːd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːd͡ʒ
Noun edit
فَوج • (fauj) f (formal plural اَفْواج (afvāj), Hindi spelling फ़ौज)
Declension edit
Declension of فوج | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | فوج (fauj) | فوجیں (faujẽ) |
oblique | فوج (fauj) | فوجوں (faujõ) |
vocative | فوج (fauj) | فوجو (faujo) |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “فوج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “فوج”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فوج”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.