watchfulness, night vigil

, (S, A, L, Msb,) aor. , (L, Msb,) inf. n. هُجُودٌ; (L, Msb, K;) and ↓ تهجّد, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ اهجد, (L, K,) and ↓ هجّد; (IAar, L;) He (a man, L) slept: (L, Msb, K:) or slept in the night: (IAar, S, A, L:) or, in the latter part of the night. (L.) ― -b2- Also هَجَدَ and ↓ تهجّد (S, A, L, Msb, K [in some copies, of the last of which the former verb is written ↓ هجّد and so in the TA) He remained awake, or was sleepless or wakeful in the night: (S, A, L:) and hence the praying in the night is called تَهَجُّدٌ: (S, L:) or he awoke from sleep (K) to pray, or for some other purpose: (TA:) or he prayed in the night; (Msb;) as also ↓ هجّد: (IAar, L:) thus these verbs bear two contr. significations: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) and ↓ تهجّد he relinquished sleep for prayer: (A:) so in the Kur, xvii., 81. (Beyd.)

see 1, in three places. ― -b2- Also هجّدهُ, inf. n. تَهْجِيدٌ, He made him, or caused him, to sleep; (S, L, K;) as also ↓ اهجدهُ. (Ibn-Buzurj, L, K.) ― -b3- Also, He awoke him from sleep. (Ibn-Buzurj, L, K.) Thus it bears two contr. significations. (K.) ― -b4- See also 4.

see 1: and 2. ― -b2- Also اهجدهُ He found him (namely a man, K) sleeping. (L, K.) ― -b3- And اهجد He (a camel) laid the fore-part of his neck (the part called جِرَان) upon the ground; (ISk, S, L, K;) as also ↓ هجّد, (IKtt, El-Basáïr, K, TA, [in the CK هَجَدَ]) inf. n. تَهْجِيدٌ. (IKtt, El-Basáïr, TA.)

see 1, in three places.

, (as in some copies of the K,) or هِجْدْ, (accord. to others and the TA,) A cry by which a horse is chidden. (K.)

: see هَاجِدٌ.

Sleeping: (T, L, Msb:) pl. هُجُودٌ and هُجَّدٌ. (Msb.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce مُرِمٌّ, in art. رم.] ― -b2- Also, (L,) and ↓ هَجُودٌ (L, K) and ↓ مُتَهَجِّدٌ (T, L) Praying in the night: (T, L, K:) pl. of the first, (L,) or second, (L, K,) هُجُودٌ and هُجَّدٌ. (L, K.) هُجْدٌ and هُجَّدٌ are also fem. pls. [app. in both of the above senses]. (A.)

: see هَاجِدٌ.