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One who walks quickly, and runs, in this and that manner.
1.1Gog—يَأْجُوجُ
Magog—مَأْجُوجُ
Both are imperfectly declinable: two tribes of God's creatures; or two great nations; or two tribes of the children of Japheth the son of Noah.
Some say the first are of the Turks, and the second of the Jeel [meaning Jeel-Jeelán, said in art. جيل, on the authority of ISd, to be a people beyond the Deylem; and on the authority of Az, to be believers in a plurality of gods; (the Geli and Gelœ of Ptolemy and Strabo, as observed by Sale, in a note on ch. 18 v. 93 of the Kur-án, on the authority of Golius in Alfrag. p. 207;)].
[The Arabs say they are Scythians of the furthest East, particularly those to the north of the Chinese; or, as some say, the descendants of Japheth, and all the nations living in the north of Asia and of Europe.]
On the authority of I' Ab, they make up nine tenths of mankind.
Or يأجوج is the name of the males, and مأجوج that of the females.
One who pronounces them in this way, and makes the أ a radical letter, says that the first is of the measure يَفْعُولُ and the second of the measure مَفْعُولُ, as though from أَجَيجُ النَّارِ, or from مَآءٌ أُجَاجٌ, or from أَجَّ said of an ostrich; and imperfectly declinable as being determinate and feminine.
One who pronounces them without ء, making the ا in each an added letter, says that the first is from يَجَجْتُ and the second from مَجَجْتُ. This holds if they are Arabic words.
But some say they are foreign names, and their being imperfectly declinable is taken to show this; if so, the ا in them is like that in هَارُوت, مَارُوت, دَاوُود and the like, the ء is irregular, as in عَأْلِمٌ and the like, and their measure is فَاعُولُ.
Ru-beh used to read آجُوجُ and مَاجُوجُ [in the CK مأجُوج]; and Aboo-Mo'ádh read يَمْجُوجُ.
Lane cites “Bd in xviii. 93” — a commentary, not the verse; no modern number is given
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One who walks quickly, and runs, in this and that manner. (K, * TA.) يَأْجُوجُ and مَأْجُوجُ , (S, Msb, K,) imperfectly decl., (S,) [Gog and Magog;] two tribes of God's creatures; (TA;) or two great nations; (Msb;) or two tribes of the children of Japheth the son of Noah: or, as some say, the former, of the Turks; and the latter, of the Jeel [meaning Jeel-Jeelán, said in the TA in art. جيل , on the authority of ISd, to be a people beyond the Deylem; and on the authority of Az, to be believers in a plurality of gods; (the Geli and Gelœ of Ptolemy and Strabo, as observed by Sale, in a note on ch. xviii. v. 93 of the Kur, on the authority of Golius in Alfrag. p. 207;)]: (Bd in xviii. 93:) [said by the Arabs to be Scythians of the furthest East; particularly those on the north of the Chinese: (Golius:) or, as some say, the descendants of Japheth, and all the nations inhabiting the north of Asia and of Europe: (Freytag:)] said in a rad., (TA,) on the authority of I' Ab, (Msb,) to compose nine tenths of mankind: (Msb, TA:) or يأجوج is the name of the males, and مأجوج is that of the females: (Msb:) he who pronounces them thus, and makes the أ a radical letter, says that the former is of the measure يَفْعُولُ , and the latter of the measure مَفْعُولُ ; as though from أَجَيجُ النَّارِ ; (Akh, S, Msb; *) or from مَآءٌ أُجَاجٌ ; (TA;) or from أَجَّ said of an ostrich; and imperfectly decl. as being determinate and fem.: (Bd ubi suprà:) he who pronounces them without ء , making the ا in each an augmentative letter, says that the former is from يَجَجْتُ , and the latter from مَجَجْتُ : (Akh, S, K:) this is the case if they be Arabic: (TA:) but some say that they are foreign names; (Msb, TA;) their being imperfectly decl. is said to indicate this; (Bd ubi suprà;) and if so, the ا in them is similar to that in هَارُوت and مَارُوت and دَاوُود and the like; and the ء , anomalous, as that in عَأْلِمٌ and the like; and their measure is فَاعُولُ . (Msb.) Ru-beh used to read آجُوجُ and مَاجُوجُ [in the CK مأجُوج ]; and Aboo-Mo'ádh, يَمْجُوجُ . (K.)