هجر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ه ج ر (h-j-r)

Verb

هَجَرَ • (hajara) I, non-past يَهْجُرُ‎ (yahjuru)

  1. break with someone and distance onceself, sever all relations with someone
  2. give up, forsake
  3. break, to cease (one's relations with someone)
  4. be delirious, to rave, to blather, to maunder
    Synonym: هَذَىٰ (haḏā)
  5. abstain from carnal activities while fasting
  6. be eminent, distinguished
  7. praise someone because of their merits
  8. tie up (a camel) with a rope
Conjugation

Verb

هَجَّرَ • (hajjara) II, non-past يُهَجِّرُ‎ (yuhajjiru)

  1. to travel or walk in the midday heat
  2. to say one's prayers early
  3. to displace
Conjugation

Noun

هَجْر • (hajr) m

  1. verbal noun of هَجَرَ (hajara) (form I),
  2. delirium, dotage
    Synonym: هَذَيَان (haḏayān)
  3. the period of the day from noon to عَصْر, hottest part of the day
  4. noble and generous man
  5. separation from a loved one
Declension

Noun

هِجْر • (hijr) m

  1. An outstanding camel
Declension

Noun

هُجْر • (hujr) m

  1. Obscene or indecent language
Declension

Noun

هَجِر • (hajir) m

  1. Something excellent in its class; one who walks feebly, as though weak or heavily burdened
Declension

Noun

هِجِر • (hijir) m

  1. Emigration
Declension

Etymology 2

Root
ه ج ر (h-j-r)

Proper noun

هَجَر • (hajar) m

  1. Town
  2. Old name of Alhasa (in modern-day Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia)
    Synonyms: الإِحْسَاء (al-ʔiḥsāʔ), الحَسَا (al-ḥasā)
Declension

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَجْر.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [häd͡ʒɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔäd͡ʒɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔäd͡ʒɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? hajr
Dari reading? hajr
Iranian reading? hajr
Tajik reading? hajr

Noun

هجر • (hajr)

  1. (poetic) separation (from friends or the beloved)
    Synonym: هجران (hejrân)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 251”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:
      شب وصل است و طی شد نامه هجر
      سلام فیه حتی مطلع الفجر
      šab-i wasl ast u tay šud nāma-yi hajr
      salāmun fīhi hattā matla'i l-fajr
      It is the night of union [between the lovers], and the book of separation is settled:
      Salāmun fīhi ḥattā maṭlaʕi l-fajr [Arabic: Peace in it until the break of dawn.]
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
      (The second hemistiche in Arabic is a Quranic quotation about the night when Muhammad received the revelation.)

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