hajīn

half-breed, mulatto

هَجِين

Word

Noun · pattern فَعِيل

Root

ه ج ن

Forms

Plural: هُجَناء

In the library

هذا مع اتفاق أهل الجيل كلهم شرقاً وغرباً في النطق بها، وأنها الخاصية التي يتميز بها العربي من الهجين والحضري.

The Muqaddimah, page 360 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries

نَكَحَ فِى بَنِى فُلاَنٍ وَهَجَّنَ أَوْلَادَهُمْ Form I He married among the sons of such a one, and made their children to be base-born, or ignoble

[He married among the sons of such a one, and made their children to be base-born, or ignoble]. (TA in art. بغل.)
هُجْنَةٌ Meanness of race

[Meanness of race, in a horse]. (K, voce إِعْراَبٌ.)
هَجِينٌ One whose father is free, or an Arab, and whose mother is a slave

One whose father is free, or an Arab, and whose mother is a slave. (S, K.) ― -b2- A horse [half-blooded] got by a stallion of generous race out of a mare not of such race: (S:) or got by an Arabian stallion out of a mare not of Arabian birth: (Msb:) or not of generous birth; a jade. (K.)
هَاجِنٌ not arrived at puberty

A girl not arrived at puberty, or a beast not yet fit to be covered: see an ex. voce جَلَّ.

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