حجة

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
ح ج ج (ḥ j j)
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Noun

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حُجَّة (ḥujjaf (plural حُجَج (ḥujaj))

  1. argument (for or against something)
    1. piece of evidence, proof, legal record
      • 2017 November 15, “روسيا تصف اتهامات مدريد لها بالتدخل في كاتالونيا بـ"الهستيريا"”, in Al-Quds[1], archived from the original on 15 November 2017:
        وقال المتحدث باسم الكرملين ديمتري بيسكوف للصحافيين إن "السلطات الاسبانية وحلف شمال الأطلسي والصحف لم تأت بحجة واحدة ذات قيمة لدعم هذه الادعاءات".
        The speaker in the name of the Kremlin Dmitri Peskov said to the journalists that “the Spanish authorities and the North Atlantic Treaty and the papers have not come out with a single valuable piece of evidence to support these allegations [that the Russian government has interfered in the Catalonia crisis by spreading disinformation].”
    2. (legal) authority
  2. pretense, pretext, excuse, alibi, plea
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: hüccət
  • Phalura: wáǰa
  • Persian: حجت
  • Ottoman Turkish: حجت (huccet)
  • Swahili: hoja
  • Uzbek: hujjat

(via plural form حُجَج (ḥujaj))

Etymology 1.2

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حِجَّة (ḥijjaf (plural حِجَج (ḥijaj) or حِجّات (ḥijjāt))

  1. instance noun of حَجّ (ḥajj); hajj, pilgrimage
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