persistence, obstinacy

, sec. pers. لَجِجْتَ, aor. , inf. n. لَجَاجٌ and لَجَاجَةٌ (S, K) and لَجَجٌ; (M, A:) and لَجَّ, sec. pers. لَجَجْتَ, aor. ; (S, K;) He persisted, or persevered, فِى أَمْرٍ in an affair: (Msb:) or he persisted in an affair, and refused to turn from it: (M:) or he persisted obstinately in an affair, even if it became manifest that it was wrong: (the Towsheeh:) or he persevered, or continued, in opposition, in contention, litigation, or wrangling: (TA:) or he persisted in contention, litigation, or wrangling; (Msb, TA;) and so ↓ لاجّ, inf. n. مُلَاجَّةٌ: (S:) or he contended, litigated, or wrangled. (K.) [Hence, لَجَّ فَحَجَّ, a prov.: see art. حج.] See also, for an ex., 8 in art. عود. -A2- See 4.

, (inf. n. تَلْجِيجٌ, K,) It (a ship, S) entered the لُجَّة [or main sea, or the fathomless deep, or the great expanse of sea of which the limits could not be seen]. (S, K.) ― -b2- لَجُّوا [perhaps a mistake for أَلَجُّوا] They entered the لُجّ [or main sea, &c.]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- ↓ أَلَجُّوا and لَجَّجُوا They embarked upon the لجة [or main sea, &c.]. (TA.)

see 1. ― -b2- لَاجَّتِ الأَلْسُنُ فِى الخُصُومَاتِ (S, art. مرس,) or ↓ تَلَاجَّت (M, same art.,) [The tongues persisted in wranglings, quarrellings, or contentions]. ― -b3- And لَاجَّ فُلَانًا [He wrangled, quarrelled, or contended, with such a one]. (AHeyth, K in art. غرو.)

He continued him, or made him to persevere, or persist, in a thing: accord. to Lh.: for he explains يَمُدُّهُمْ in the Kur, ii., 14, by يُلِجُّهُمْ: but ISd doubts whether he had heard this from the Arabs: and adds, that he, himself, had not heard أَلْجَجْتُهُ. (L.) -A2- الجّ القَوْمُ The people cried out; raised a cry. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, and القَوْمُ ↓ لجّ, The people uttered confused cries. (TA.) ― -b3- الجّت الإِبِلُ The camels uttered cries: (K:) and in like manner الغَنَمُ, the sheep or goats. (TA.) -A3- See 2.

It (a thing) fluctuated in his bosom, or came and went repeatedly. (Msb.)

see 3. ― -b2- تَلَاجٌّ The wrangling, quarrelling, or contending, one with another. (KL.) You say, تَلَاجَّا [They wrangled, &c., each with the other.] (M in art. شق.)

The waves became great and confused. (TA.) ― -b2- التّج البَحْرُ, inf. n. إِلْتِجَاجٌ, (S,) The sea became tumultuous, its waves dashing together: (TA:) the main part, or fathomless deep, of the sea became vast, and very tumultuous. (A.) ― -b3- التجّت الأَصْوَاتُ The voices, or sounds, were confused: (S, K:) or, rose high, and were confused. (L.) ― -b4- التجّ الظَّلَامُ (tropical:) The darkness became intricate and confused. (TA.) ― -b5- التّج الأَمْرُ (assumed tropical:) The affair became great and confused. (TA.) ― -b6- إِذَا التجّ الدَّيَامِيمُ, in a verse of Dhu-rRummeh, (tropical:) When the wide deserts become scenes of mirage like لُجّ [or great expanses of sea of which the extremities cannot be seen]. (AHát.) -A2- إِنَّهُ لَشَدِيدُ ٱلْتِجَاجِ العَيْنِ Verily he has an intensely black eye. (L.)

inf. n. لَجْلَجَةٌ, He spoke with an indistinct utterance: he spoke with a heavy tongue, and was defective in speech, not uttering one part of what he said immediately after another; he hesitated in speech, by reason of a natural defect: (Lth:) or he reiterated, or stammered, or stuttered, (تَرَدَّدَ) in his speech; as also ↓ تَلَجْلَجَ. (S, K.) ― -b2- لَجْلَجَ المُضْغَةَ فِى فِمِهِ He moved the morsel of meat backwards and forwards in his mouth, to chew it. (S.)

see R. Q. 1.

The side of a valley. (K.) ― -b2- The side, or shore, of a sea. (L.) [See also لُجَّةٌ.] ― -b3- A rugged part of a mountain. (K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A sword: (S, K:) app. from لُجٌّ with reference to the sea, because of its terribleness: (As:) thought by ISd to occur only in one instance, in a trad.: said to be of the dial. of Teiyi; or of Hudheyl, and of some of the people of El-Yemen. (TA.) ― -b5- Also لُجَّةٌ, (tropical:) A mirror. (K.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) Silver. (K.)

Voices, cries, clamour, confused noise, or a mixture of voices, (S, K,) of men, (S,) and sometimes of camels. (TA.)

and ↓ لُجٌّ The main body of water, (S, K,) or of the sea: [the deep:] or the depth, or deep, of the sea, of which the bottom cannot be reached; the fathomless deep: (L:) also, لُجَّةٌ (TA) and بَحْرٍ ↓ لُجُّ (L) a great expanse of water, or sea, of which the extremities cannot be seen: (L, TA:) pl. لُجٌّ and لُجَجٌ and لِجَاجٌ; the last pl. of لُجَّةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- فُلَانٌ لُجَّةٌ وَاسِعَةٌ (tropical:) [Such a one is a wide fathomless deep]: a phrase by which one is likened to a sea, in amplitude. (TA.) ― -b3- كَأَنَّ عَيْنَهُ لُجَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) [As though his eye were a fathomless sea]: i. e., intensely black. (L.) ― -b4- الظُّعْنُ تَسْبَحُ السَّرَابِ ↓ فِى لُجِّ (tropical:) The women in the camel-litters swim in the great expanse of mirage. (TA.) ― -b5- لُجَّةُ الظَّلَامِ (tropical:) The depth of the darkness. (TA.) ― -b6- اللَّيْلِ ↓ لُجُّ (assumed tropical:) The depth of night; its intense darkness and blackness. (TA.) ― -b7- جَمَلُ أَدْهَمُ لُجٌّ (assumed tropical:) A deep black, or intensely black, camel. (K.) ― -b8- لُجَّةٌ and ↓ لُجٌّ (tropical:) A numerous assembly, company, troop, or congregated body: (K:) from لُجَّةٌ with reference to the sea. (TA.) ― -b9- لُجَّةٌ أَمْرٍ (assumed tropical:) The main part of an affair. (TA.)