ughnūja

flirting, coquettish behavior

أُغْنُوجَة

Word

Noun · pattern أُفْعُولَة

Root

غ ن ج

From the same root

All words from غ ن ج →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • غَنِجَتْ Form I She used amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned...
    , (S, A, MA, O, K;) aor. , (K,) inf. n. غُنْجٌ (S, MA) and غَنَاجَةٌ; (MA;) and غُنِجَتْ; (MA;) and ↓ تغنّجت; (S, A, MA, K;) said of a girl, or young woman, (S, K,) or of a woman, (A, MA,) She used amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned coyness or opposition, (S, * A, * MA, O, * K, * TA,) and an affecting of languor. (TA.) [See غُنْجٌ below.]
  • تَغَنَّجَ Form V Open entry
    see the preceding paragraph.
  • غُنْجٌ Amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned coyness or...
    [mentioned above as an inf. n.] and ↓ غُنُجٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ غُنَاجٌ and ↓ غِنَاجٌ, (O, K,) in a girl, or young woman, (S, K,) Amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned coyness or opposition, (Bkh, S, * O, * K, * TA,) and an affecting of languor: (Bkh, TA:) [in the present day generally used to signify lascivious motion, or a wriggling of the body or hips, under the excitement of sexual passion, or to excite such passion:] accord. to some, beauty of the eyes. (TA.) -A2- And غُنْجٌ and ↓ غِنَاجٌ signify also Smoke-black (دُخَانُ النَّوأُورِ [see the latter of these two nouns in art. نور] AA, O, K) which a woman performing the operation of tattooing puts upon her green colour in order that it may become black. (AA, O, TA.)
  • غَنَجٌ An old man
    An old man: (S, K:) or a man: (TA:) in the dial. of Hudheyl. (S, K.) So in the saying غَنَجٌ عَلَى شَنَجٍ (TA) meaning A man upon a camel: (Lth, IDrd, O, all in art. شنج:) or a man or an old man, upon a heavy camel: (L in that art.:) a phrase of the tribe of Hudheyl. (TA.) [See عَنَجٌ.]
  • غُنُجٌ Open entry
    : see غُنْجٌ.
  • غُنْجَةُ hedge-hog
    , (O,) or غُنَجَةُ, (TA,) without اَلْ, and imperfectly decl., (O, TA,) The قُنْفُذ [or hedge-hog], (O,) or the قُنْفُذَة [or female hedgehog]. (TA.)
  • غَنِجَةٌ Using or who uses, amorous gesture or behaviour
    (Bkh, S, A, MA, O, K) and ↓ مَغْنُوجَةٌ (A, MA) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ مِغْنَاجٌ, (O, K) applied to a girl, or young woman, (S, K,) or to a woman, (A, MA,) Using or who uses, amorous gesture or behaviour, &c., such as is termed غُنْج. (Bkh, S, A, MA, O, K, TA.)
  • غُنَاجٌ Open entry
    : see غُنْجٌ.
  • غِنَاجٌ Open entry
    : see غُنْج, in two places.
  • غَوْنَجٌ quick, or swift
    A quick, or swift, camel: mentioned by Kr, but said to be not known on the authority of any other. (TA.)
  • أَغْنُوجَةٌ A gesture, or an action, of the kind termed غُنْج
    A gesture, or an action, of the kind termed غُنْج: pl. أَغَانِيجُ: Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, " لَوَى رَأْسَهُ عَنِّى وَمَالَ بِوُدِّهِ أَغَانِيجُ خَوْدٍ كَانَ فِينَا يَزُورُهَا " [The amorous gestures or actions, &c., of a soft or tender, or goodly-shaped and young, damsel, whom he used to visit among us, turned his head from me, and diverted his love]. (TA.)
  • مِغْنَاجٌ Open entry
    : see غَنِجَةٌ.

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