هَجَدَ

, (S, A, L, Msb,) aorist هَجُدَ , (L, Msb,) verbal noun هُجُودٌ; (L, Msb, K;) and ↓ تهجّد, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ اهجد, (L, K,) and ↓ هجّد; (IAar, L;) He (a man, L) slept: (L, Msb, K:) or slept in the night: (IAar, S, A, L:) or, in the latter part of the night. (L.)

Also هَجَدَ and ↓ تهجّد (S, A, L, Msb, K [in some copies, of the last of which the former verb is written ↓ هجّد and so in the TA) He remained awake, or was sleepless or wakeful in the night: (S, A, L:) and hence the praying in the night is called تَهَجُّدٌ: (S, L:) or he awoke from sleep (K) to pray, or for some other purpose: (TA:) or he prayed in the night; (Msb;) as also ↓ هجّد: (IAar, L:) thus these verbs bear two contr. significations: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) and ↓ تهجّد he relinquished sleep for prayer: (A:) so in the Qur'an, xvii., 81. (Beyd.)