دَاجٌّ

[particle 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 plural 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 tradition, هٰوءُلَاءِ 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, according 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 tradition, مَا تَرَكْتُ مِنْ حَاجَةٍ وَلَا دَاجَةٍ إِلَّا أَتَيْتُ, the word داجة is without teshdeed, and is an imitative sequent to حاجة: (S:) [see article دوج:] but according to one relation, it is ما تركت حَاجَّةٌ وَلَا دَاجَّةٌ, meaning, according 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.)