يَأْجُوجٌ

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 article 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 Qur'an, 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 مَاءٌ أُجَاجٌ; (TA;) or from أَجَّ said of an ostrich; and imperfectly decl. as being determinate and feminine: (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 ↓ اجُوجُ and مَاجُوجُ [in the CK مأجُوج]; and Aboo-Mo'ádh, يَمْجُوجُ. (K.)