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أحوج

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Arabic

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Root
ح و ج (ḥ w j)
7 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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أَحْوَجَ (ʔaḥwaja) IV (non-past يُحْوِجُ (yuḥwiju), verbal noun إِحْوَاج (ʔiḥwāj))

  1. to need, to want, to require [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘something’]
  2. to require [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘something’ and accusative ‘of someone’]
  3. to compel, to oblige [with accusative ‘someone’ and إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to do something’]
  4. to impoverish, to reduce to poverty

Conjugation

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Adjective

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أَحْوَج (ʔaḥwaj)

  1. in greater need

References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “أحوج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN