د • ج

, aor. دَجِ3َ inf. n. دَجِيجٌ (S A, * K) and دَجَجَانٌ (S) and دَجٌّ, (TA,) He, (a man, TA,) or it, (a company of people, accord. to ISk not said of a single person, S, TA,) crept along; i. e. went, or walked, leisurely, softly, or gently: (S, A, K:) or did so with short steps: or came and went. (TA.) You say, مَرَّ القَوْمُ يَدِجُّونَ عَلى الأَرْضِ The company of men passed, going leisurely, &c., upon, or over, the ground. (S.) Hence, (TA,) He trafficked, or exercised the business of a merchant: (K) because the merchant travels about at a slow pace. (TA.) And He hastened, or went quickly. (TA.) Also, [aor. دَجِ3َ ] inf. n. دَجٌّ, said of a بَيْت [or tent, or house, or chamber], It dripped. (K.) -A2- See also 2. -A3- دَجَّ, [aor., accord. to rule, دَجُ3َ ,] (As, K,) inf. n. دَجٌّ, (TA,) He let down a veil, or curtain. (As, K.)

, [in the CK, erroneously, تَدَجَّجَت,] inf. n. تَدْجِيجٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ دَجَّت, [aor. دَجِ3َ ] (A, TA;) The sky became clouded. (S, A, K.)

, (S, and so in copies of the K,) or ↓ تَدَجْدَجَ, (A, and so in the K accord. to the TA,) He covered himself with his arms, or weapons: (A:) or he attired himself with (lit. entered into) his arms; (S, K;) as though he covered himself with them. (S.)

[part. n. of 1]. You say جَمَاعَةٌ دَاجَّةٌ A party, or company, creeping along; i. e., going, or walking, leisurely, softly, or gently: (ISk, S:) or doing so with short steps: or coming and going. (TA.) And أَقْبَلَ الحَاجُّ وَ الدَّاجُّ (S, * K, * TA) The [company of pilgrims to Mekkeh, and of the] letters-out of camels &c., and the servants, or assistants, (S, K,) and the like attendants of the pilgrims, came: (TA:) the two words حاجّ and داجّ, though sings., are used in the pl. sense: (TA:) or الداجّ signifies also the merchants; (K;) or the merchants and others who go leisurely, or creep along, after the pilgrims. (TA.) الداجّ has the same meaning in the words of a trad., هٰؤُلَآءِ الدَّاجُّ وَلَيْسُوا بِالجَاجِّ [These are the lettersout of camels &c., and they are not the pilgrims]: (S, K:) said by Ibn-' Omar, of a people whom he saw among the pilgrims, whose appearance he disliked: or it means, accord. to A 'Obeyd, those who are with the pilgrims, such as the hired men, and the camel-drivers, and the servants, and the like; and Ibn-' Omar meant that these were not pilgrims in the proper sense, but merely persons journeying and creeping along. (TA.) In the words of another trad., مَا تَرَكْتُ مِنْ حَاجَةٍ وَلَا دَاجَةٍ إِلَّا أَتَيْتُ, the word داجة is without teshdeed, and is an imitative sequent to حاجة: (S:) [see art. دوج:] but accord. to one relation, it is ما تركت حَاجَّةٌ وَلَا دَاجَّةٌ, meaning, accord. to El-Khattábee, [I left not a company of] pilgrims to Mekkeh, nor those returning. (TA.) One says also, أَمَا وَحَوَاجِّ بَيْتِ اللّٰهِ وَ دَوَاجِّهِ لَأَفْعَلَنَّ كَذَا وَكَذَا [Nay, by the pilgrims to the House of God, and those who journey thither for mercantile purposes, I will assuredly do such and such things]. (TA.)

and دِجَاجٌ (S, A, Msb) and دُجَاجٌ, (TA,) the first of which is more chaste than the second, (S, A, Msb, * TA,) and the second than the third; (TA;) a coll. gen. n.; (S, TA;) n. un. دَجَاجَةٌ (S, Mgh, K) and دِجَاجَةٌ (S, K) and دُجَاجَةٌ; (K;) applied to the male and the female; (S, K;) A certain bird, (TA,) well known; (S, Msb, K;) [the common domestic fowl, both cock and hen;] so called because of its [frequent] coming and going: (Towsheeh:) pl. دُجُجٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) and sometimes دَجَائِجُ; (Msb;) and pl. of the n. un. دجاجاتٌ; and دِجَاجٌ may be regarded as a broken pl. of دِجَاجَةٌ, its kesreh and ا being considered as the kesreh and ا which make the pl. form, and as being not the kesreh and ا which are in the sing.; or it may be a pl. of دُجَاجَةٌ with the augmentative letter ا rejected, as though pl. of دُجَّةٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] الدَّجَاجَةُ [(assumed tropical:) The constellation Cygnus; so called in the present day;] a certain northern constellation, consisting of nineteen stars in the figure and two without the figure, of which the four stars in a row are called الفَوَارِسُ, and lie across the Milky Way. (Kzw.) دَجَاجُ البَرِّ: see حَجَلٌ. دَجَاجَةٌ, (accord. to the K,) or دَجَاجٌ, (accord. to the TA, [the latter app. the correct term,]) also signifies (assumed tropical:) A family, or household; the persons who dwell with a man, and whose maintenance is incumbent on him. (K, TA.) Also the former, (assumed tropical:) A ball (كُبَّة) of spun thread: (S, K:) or the [receptacle called] حِفْش thereof: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n., of which it is the n. un.,] دَجَاجٌ. (TA.) الدَّجَاجَتَانِ (assumed tropical:) The two projections, (TA,) or projecting bones, (MF,) of the breast of a horse, on the right and left of the زَوْر [q. v.]. (TA, MF.)

and دِجَاجَةٌ and دُجَاجَةٌ are explained above, voce دَجَاجٌ.

[originally an inf. n.; see 1: afterwards (like خَصْمٌ and عَدْلٌ &c.) used as an epithet;] A sucking infant, that creeps along after its mother: fem. with ة. (K.)

: see دَجُوجِىٌّ

, (so in copies of the K,) or دِجْ دِجْ (so in some copies of the K and in the L,) A cry by which domestic fowls are called. (L, K.) [See R. Q. 1.]

; and its fem., with ة: see دَجُوجِىٌّ.

It (the night, S, and so in some copies of the K) was, or became, dark; (S, K;) as also ↓ تَدَجْدَجَ (K.) -A2- دَجْدَجَتِ الدَّجَاجَةُ فِى مَشْيِهَا The domestic fowl ran. (TA.) دَجْدَجَ بِالدَّجَاجَةِ He called the cock, or hen, (S, K,) by the cry دَجْ دَجْ, (K,) or, as in some copies of the K [and in the L] دِجْ دِجْ. (TA.)

: see دَجُوجِىٌّ

Of a clear black colour: (A 'Obeyd, TA voce غَيْهَبٌ:) or intensely black; (S) as also ↓ أَسْوَدُ دُجْدُجٌ and ↓ دُجَاجِىٌّ. (K.) It has the latter signification applied to a he-camel; and دَجُوجِيَّةٌ to a she-camel. (S, TA.) Also simply Black; applied to hair; and so ↓ دَجِيجٌ: or the latter has this signification applied to anything; as also ↓ دَجْدَاجٌ: (TA:) which last likewise signifies dark, applied to a sea or great river, (K, TA,) because of the blackness of its water. (TA.) You say also لَيْلٌ دَجُوجِىٌّ Dark night: (S, A, K:) or intensely dark night; and so ↓ دَجُوجٌ and ↓ دُجَاجِىٌّ (TA:) and لَيْلَةٌ ↓ دَيْجُوجٌ (S, K) and ↓ دَجْدَاجَةٌ (K) a dark night: S, K:) the pl. of ↓ دَيْجُوجٌ is دَيَاجِيجٌ and دَيَاجٌّ the latter a contraction of the former. (TA.)

Darkness. (TA.) And also used as an epithet: see دَجُوجِىٌّ, in two places.

See دُجَّةٌ.

Also Black mountains. (IAar, K.) -A2- Also pl. of دَجَاجٌ. (Mgh, Msb.)

A chicken: [or probably chickens, as a coll. gen. n. of which ↓ دُجَّةٌ, mentioned in the TA voce دَجَاجٌ, q. v., is the n. un.:] said by some to be a post-classical word. (TA.)

Intense darkness: (S, K:) and ↓ دُجُجٌ signifies the same; (K) or condensation of darkness. (TA.) -A2- See also دُجٌّ.

A veil, or curtain, let down. (As, TA.)

and مُدَجَّجٌ A man completely armed: (S, * K, * TA:) and so A 'Obeyd explains ↓ مُدَجْدَجٌ: he is so called because he walks slowly by reason of the weight of his arms; or because he covers himself therewith, from دَجَّجَتِ السَّمَآءُ. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) The hedgehog; syn. قُنْفُذٌ: (ISd, K:) or a large قُنْفُذٌ: (TA:) app. so called because of its spines. (ISd.)

: [A long-bodied she-camel; lit.] a she-camel spreading upon, or over, the ground. (S, K.)

See تدجّج فِى شِكَّتِهِ.

and see also R. Q. 1.