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ج-و-ع

The Arabic root ج-و-ع (j-w-a)

Form I verb جَاعَ: to be hungry

9 words in the dictionary are built from ج-و-ع, including verbs in Forms I, II, IV. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Adjective
hungry
Verb · Form I
to be hungry
Noun
hunger
Noun
مَجَاعَة
famine
Adjective
جَوْعَان
hungry

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

جَاعَ · present يَجُوعُ
Form I · The plain action

to be hungry, to starve

جَوْع
Verbal noun
Active participle
hungry
جَوْعَان
Active participle
hungry
جَوَّعَ · present يُجَوِّعُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to starve

تَجْوِيع
Verbal noun
starvation
مُجَوِّع
Active participle
مُجَوَّع
Passive participle
أَجَاعَ · present يُجِيعُ
Form IV · Causative

to starve, to famish

إِجَاعَة
Verbal noun
مُجِيع
Active participle
مُجَاع
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

Noun
hunger
مَجَاعَة
Noun
famine

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