رجا

Arabic

Root
ر ج و (r-j-w)
FWOTD – 23 October 2014

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ra.d͡ʒaː/
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Verb

رَجَا • (rajā) I, non-past يَرْجُو‎ (yarjū)

  1. (transitive) to hope (to want something to happen)
    Synonym: أَمَلَ (ʔamala)
  2. transitive, with conjunction أَن (ʔan), to implore, to beg, to ask someone to do something.
    • 1980, التطاهر وطار, الحوات والقصر
      رجاه أَن يبقى يوما آخر
      rajāhu ʔan yabqā yawman ʔāḵaran
      He begged him to stay one more day

Conjugation

Synonyms

Antonyms

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic رَجَاء (rajāʔ).

Noun

رجا • (recâ, vulg. rica)

  1. request
  2. invite
  3. supplication
  4. prayer

Descendants

  • Turkish: rica

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic رَجَاء (rajāʔ).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [rä.d͡ʒɑ́ː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [rä.d͡ʒɑ́ː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [rä.d͡ʒɔ́ː]

Readings
Classical reading? rajā
Dari reading? rajā
Iranian reading? rajâ
Tajik reading? rajo

Noun

رجا • (rajâ)

  1. hope
    Synonym: امید (omid)

Derived terms

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic رَجَاء (rajāʔ).

Pronunciation

Noun

رَجا • (rajā) f (Hindi spelling रजा)

  1. hope, expectation
  2. prayer, supplication, intercession

Further reading

  • رجا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “رجا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • رجا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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