hajw

ridicule, ridiculing

هَجْو

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْل

Root

ه ج و

In the library

1( تُعادينا لأنّا غَيرُ لُكْنٍ ** وتُبْغِضُنا لأنّا غَيرُ عُورِ )( فلو كنت امرأً يهجى هجونا ** ولكن ضاق فترٌ عن مسير )

Diwan — selected poems, page 33 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 3 entries

هَجَاهُ Form I He censured, dispraised, reviled, or satirized him

He censured, dispraised, reviled, or satirized him, (S, Msb, K,) in verse. (Msb, K) ― -b2- مَا هَجَوْتُ مِنْهُ شَيْيأًا: see 1 in art. حجو.
هَاجَاهُ Form III He contended with him in satirizing

, inf. n. مُهَاجَاةٌ, He contended with him in satirizing. See 4 in art. فحم.
أُمْجُوَّةٌ Dispraise

, Dispraise, is like أُسْبُوبَةٌ, contr. of أُمْدُوحَةٌ.

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