عوج

The headword has and, or the latter is a simple substantive; this form is the more common one, with maṣdars اِعْوِجَاجٌ, انعاج and تعوّج.

Or [عَوِجَ and] اعوجّ mean it became so of itself, while [انعاج and] تعوّج mean it became so through the action of something else, as Az says: انعاج is quasi-passive of عُجْتُهُ, and تعوّج is quasi-passive of عَوَّجْتُهُ.

عَوَجٌ and عِوَجٌ are said to be used of different things.

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[See عَوَجٌ below.]

عُجْتُهُ: see form 2.

The maṣdar of the headword is تَعْوِيجٌ; said of a thing.

Its maṣdars are عَوْجٌ and عِيَاجٌ.

See also form 1, near the middle.

تَعْرِيجٌ is used in the same way.

The maṣdar is as above. Said of a thing, or a vessel; عَاج means ivory, and tortoise-shell.

See form 1, earlier part, in four places.

See form 1, earlier part, in five places.

See form 1, first sentence, in two places.

As an adjective applied to a she-camel: pliable; the same as لَيِّنَةٌ الأَعْطَافِ, or لَيِّنَةُ الاِنْعِطَافِ, according to different copies of the K.

By those latter words عَائِجَةٌ, so applied, is explained, though not in the K.

In the L, عَاجٌ is explained as tractable, submissive, or manageable, the same as مِذْعَانٌ, or مِذْعَانُ السَّيْرِ لَيِّنَةُ الاِنْعِطَافِ.

It is said to have no parallel in dropping the feminine ending ة, whether its original measure is فَعِلٌ or فَاعِلٌ.

Also ivory: elephant's bone, or rather only the elephant's tusk; so say ISd and Kz.

Ism waḥda with ة, meaning a piece of ivory.

Among its properties: if seed-produce or trees are fumigated with it, worms will not come near them; and a woman who drinks two drachms of it every day with water and honey conceives if she lies with a man after seven days.

Indeclinable, ending with kesr, as a determinate noun; and عَاجٍ, with tenween, as an indeterminate noun.

Az says that in chiding a she-camel one says عَاجِ without tenween, or, if one likes, عَاجْ with jezm, as though a pause were imagined after it; according to A'Obeyd, one says to her عَاجٍ and جَاهٍ with tenween. [But see art. جوه.]

According to AHeyth, a word of this kind is originally majzoom, but in a rhyme, and wherever poetry requires it, it may be makhfood. [See also art. عج.]

This and the headword are maṣdars of عَوِجَ, or the second of them is a simple substantive; both are also used as simple substantives.

Or the form with fet-h belongs to objects of sight, such as bodies, and the form with kesr to what is not seen, such as an opinion, a saying, and religion; some say the form with kesr is used in both cases, but the distinction is more common. AZ makes the same distinction, but adds that some of the Arabs used the form with kesr of a road.

According to ISk, the form with fet-h is used of anything erect, or of anything that was erect and has inclined, such as a wall, a stick or staff, and a spear; the form with kesr is used of land or ground, of religion, and of the means of subsistence. Of land it means unevenness, as in the Qur'ān 20:106; of a road, deflection, and so does عَوَجٌ; of religion and of natural disposition, corruptness, or deviation from what is right.

عَوَجٌ, or, according to a copy of the A, عِوَجٌ — which I incline to think the right reading, since it agrees with the explanations given above, in spite of the apparent weight of authority in favour of عَوَجٌ — said of a man, means evilness of natural disposition; and apparently هَوَجٌ means this too. Or عَوَجٌ, with fet-h to the ع, as a maṣdar, means being evil in natural disposition.

See the paragraph just before this one.

Diminutive of العَوْجَآءُ, the feminine of الأَعْوَجُ: a species of ذُرَة, or millet.

According to Sb, one who possesses عَاج, that is, ivory, and apparently tortoise-shell as well; according to another account, one who sells it.

For its feminine, formed with ة, as an adjective applied to a she-camel, see عَاجٌ, first sentence.

Crooked, curved, bent or bending, winding, wry, contorted, distorted, or uneven.

This may apply to the headword as well. The feminine of the headword is عَوْجَآءُ, and its plural عُوجٌ.

But one does not say مِعْوَجَّةٌ, with kesr to the م. According to ISk, this form is used, but not مُعَوَّجَةٌ, with fet-h to the ع and teshdeed to the و, though analogy does not forbid it, since one may say عَوَّجَهَا.

According to As, one should not say مُعَوَّجٌ, with teshdeed to the و, except when applying it to a stick, or in another sense explained below. Az says the word is allowable in the sense of made crooked, or curved.

The relative noun of أَعْوَجُ, applied to a single horse of those called الأَعْوَجِيَّاتُ, an appellation given to certain horses in relation to a stallion named أَعْوَجُ belonging to the Benoo-Hilál — no stallion was more celebrated among the Arabs, and none had more numerous offspring.

They were also called الخَيْلُ الأَعْوَجِيَّةُ, بَنَاتُ أَعْوَجَ and عُوجٍ بَنَاتُ.

A poet says:

[Brown, or a blackish bay, of the progeny of Aawaj, hard in the hoof]; he means أَعْوَجَ مِنْ وَلَدِ, using that plural form because أَعْوَجُ is originally an adjective.

A place to which one turns, or in which one remains, stays, or lives.

Also a maṣdar of عَاجَ, meaning “he remained” and the like, and of the verb in the phrase عُجْتُ البَعِيرَ.

See أَعْوَجُ, first and second sentences.

See أَعْوَجُ, second sentence, in two places.

Also a thing set, or inlaid, with عَاج, that is, with ivory and tortoise-shell; applied in this sense to a vessel.