walk slowly

, aor. inf. n. دَجِيجٌ (S A, * K) and دَجَجَانٌ (S) and دَجٌّ, (TA,) He, (a man, TA,) or it, (a company of people, accord. to ISk not said of a single person, S, TA,) crept along; i. e. went, or walked, leisurely, softly, or gently: (S, A, K:) or did so with short steps: or came and went. (TA.) You say, مَرَّ القَوْمُ يَدِجُّونَ عَلى الأَرْضِ The company of men passed, going leisurely, &c., upon, or over, the ground. (S.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) He trafficked, or exercised the business of a merchant: (K) because the merchant travels about at a slow pace. (TA.) ― -b3- And He hastened, or went quickly. (TA.) ― -b4- Also, [aor. ] inf. n. دَجٌّ, said of a بَيْت [or tent, or house, or chamber], It dripped. (K.) -A2- See also 2. -A3- دَجَّ, [aor., accord. to rule, ,] (As, K,) inf. n. دَجٌّ, (TA,) He let down a veil, or curtain. (As, K.)

, [in the CK, erroneously, تَدَجَّجَت,] inf. n. تَدْجِيجٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ دَجَّت, [aor. ] (A, TA;) The sky became clouded. (S, A, K.)

, (S, and so in copies of the K,) or ↓ تَدَجْدَجَ, (A, and so in the K accord. to the TA,) He covered himself with his arms, or weapons: (A:) or he attired himself with (lit. entered into) his arms; (S, K;) as though he covered himself with them. (S.)

It (the night, S, and so in some copies of the K) was, or became, dark; (S, K;) as also ↓ تَدَجْدَجَ (K.) -A2- دَجْدَجَتِ الدَّجَاجَةُ فِى مَشْيِهَا The domestic fowl ran. (TA.) ― -b2- دَجْدَجَ بِالدَّجَاجَةِ He called the cock, or hen, (S, K,) by the cry دَجْ دَجْ, (K,) or, as in some copies of the K [and in the L] دِجْ دِجْ. (TA.)

: see 5: ― -b2- and see also R. Q. 1.

, (so in copies of the K,) or دِجْ دِجْ (so in some copies of the K and in the L,) A cry by which domestic fowls are called. (L, K.) [See R. Q. 1.]

A chicken: [or probably chickens, as a coll. gen. n. of which ↓ دُجَّةٌ, mentioned in the TA voce دَجَاجٌ, q. v., is the n. un.:] said by some to be a post-classical word. (TA.)

Intense darkness: (S, K:) and ↓ دُجُجٌ signifies the same; (K) or condensation of darkness. (TA.) -A2- See also دُجٌّ.

: see دُجَّةٌ. ― -b2- Also Black mountains. (IAar, K.) -A2- Also pl. of دَجَاجٌ. (Mgh, Msb.)

[originally an inf. n.; see 1: afterwards (like خَصْمٌ and عَدْلٌ &c.) used as an epithet;] A sucking infant, that creeps along after its mother: fem. with ة. (K.)

and دِجَاجٌ (S, A, Msb) and دُجَاجٌ, (TA,) the first of which is more chaste than the second, (S, A, Msb, * TA,) and the second than the third; (TA;) a coll. gen. n.; (S, TA;) n. un. دَجَاجَةٌ (S, Mgh, K) and دِجَاجَةٌ (S, K) and دُجَاجَةٌ; (K;) applied to the male and the female; (S, K;) A certain bird, (TA,) well known; (S, Msb, K;) [the common domestic fowl, both cock and hen;] so called because of its [frequent] coming and going: (Towsheeh:) pl. دُجُجٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) and sometimes دَجَايأِجُ; (Msb;) and pl. of the n. un. دجاجاتٌ; and دِجَاجٌ may be regarded as a broken pl. of دِجَاجَةٌ, its kesreh and ا being considered as the kesreh and ا which make the pl. form, and as being not the kesreh and ا which are in the sing.; or it may be a pl. of دُجَاجَةٌ with the augmentative letter ا rejected, as though pl. of دُجَّةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الدَّجَاجَةُ [(assumed tropical:) The constellation Cygnus; so called in the present day;] a certain northern constellation, consisting of nineteen stars in the figure and two without the figure, of which the four stars in a row are called الفَوَارِسُ, and lie across the Milky Way. (Kzw.) ― -b3- دَجَاجُ البَرِّ: see حَجَلٌ. ― -b4- دَجَاجَةٌ, (accord. to the K,) or دَجَاجٌ, (accord. to the TA, [the latter app. the correct term,]) also signifies (assumed tropical:) A family, or household; the persons who dwell with a man, and whose maintenance is incumbent on him. (K, TA.) ― -b5- Also the former, (assumed tropical:) A ball (كُبَّة) of spun thread: (S, K:) or the [receptacle called] حِفْش thereof: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n., of which it is the n. un.,] دَجَاجٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- الدَّجَاجَتَانِ (assumed tropical:) The two projections, (TA,) or projecting bones, (MF,) of the breast of a horse, on the right and left of the زَوْر [q. v.]. (TA, MF.)

: see دَجُوجِىٌّ