و ج س

Arabic

Root

و ج س • (w-j-s)

1. related to being anxious, struck by fear

Derived terms

• Form I: وَجَسَ (wajasa, “to be anxious, to be struck by fear”)
  • Verbal noun: وَجْس (wajs), وَجَسَان (wajasān)
  • Active participle: وَاجِس (wājis)
• Form IV: أَوْجَسَ (ʔawjasa, “to feel, to forebode”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيجَاس (ʔījās)
  • Active participle: مُوجِس (mūjis)
  • Passive participle: مُوجَس (mūjas)
• Form V: تَوَجَّسَ (tawajjasa, “to be anxious; to observe closely; to sample a bit”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَجُّس (tawajjus)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَجِّس (mutawajjis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَوَجَّس (mutawajjas)

• وَجَّاس (wajjās, “observing closely”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “و ج س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 783
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “و ج س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 439–440
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “و ج س”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1492
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “و ج س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1377–1378