Arabic

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Root
ن ه ج (n h j)
2 terms

Verb

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نَهَجَ (nahaja) I (non-past يَنْهَجُ (yanhaju), verbal noun نَهْج (nahj))

  1. to follow

Conjugation

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Noun

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نَهْج (nahjm (plural نُهُوج (nuhūj) or أَنْهُج (ʔanhuj))

  1. taken path; way; mode; technique; method, sort; norm;
    أَخَذ النَّهْجʔaḵaḏ an-nahjto take the approach
    نَهْجُ الثَّوْبُnahju ṯ-ṯawbuway of dressing
    • 2017 October 21, “عقوبات أميركية جديدة خلال أيام على إيران وحزب الله”, in alarabiya[1]:
      وتأتي تلك الخطوات في سياق النهج الذي يتبعه الرئيس الأميركي، دونالد ترمب، منذ توليه الرئاسة تجاه إيران.
      And these steps come in the context of the approach towards Iran which the American president Donald Trump follows since his taking over the President’s office.

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References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1292, list as individual word only مِنْهَاج (minhāj) and think the whole root borrowed from Hebrew or Aramaic.
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نهج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 342
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نهج”, 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[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1353–1354
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “نهج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2856

Moroccan Arabic

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Root
ن ه ج
1 term

Etymology

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From Arabic نَهِجَ (nahija).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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نهج (nhaj) I (non-past ينهج (yinhaj), verbal noun نهجة (nahja))

  1. to pant (for people)
    Synonym: (for animals) لهت (lhat)

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَهْج (nahj).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? nahj
Dari reading? nahj
Iranian reading? nahj
Tajik reading? nahj

Noun

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نهج (nahj)

  1. manner
    Synonyms: طور, طریقه, روش
  2. way, road
    Synonyms: راه, روش, طریقه
    نهج البلاغةnahj-al-balâgathe way to rhetoric (name of a famous book by Imam ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib)

References

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  • Ibn Faris (c. 900 CE?) Maqayees al-Lughah[5]