ح د ج

Recalls ه د ج‎ (h-d-j) where هَدَجَ‎ (hadaja, “to walk in a trembling fashion”) (considering that one does that when carrying heavy loads, as well as when one has eaten colocynths: حَظِلَ‎ (ḥaẓila) related to حَنْظَل‎ (ḥanẓal, “colocynth”) means exactly walking lamely especially after having eaten colocynths) and هَوْدَج‎ (hawdaj, “litter for carrying”). Seemingly just extended from د ج ج‎ (d-j-j) where دَجَّ‎ (dajja, “to walk along gently”), though parallelled by Ugaritic 𐎈𐎄𐎂 (ḥdg, “litter or chair for a woman”). According to Dillmann Ge'ez አድግ (ʾädg, “ass, donkey”) also belongs here.

ح د ج • (ḥ-d-j)

1. related to burdening (also figuratively)

• Form I: حَدَجَ‎ (ḥadaja, “to load; to cast (a look)”)
  • Verbal noun: حَدْج‎ (ḥadj ), حِدَاج‎‎ (ḥidāj ), حُدُوج‎‎ (ḥudūj)
  • Active participle: حَادِج‎ (ḥādij)
  • Passive participle: مَحْدُوج‎ (maḥdūj)
• Form II: حَدَّجَ‎ (ḥaddaja, “to look”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْدِيج‎ (taḥdīj)
  • Active participle: مُحَدِّج‎ (muḥaddij)
  • Passive participle: مُحَدَّج‎ (muḥaddaj)
• Form IV: أَحْدَجَ‎ (ʔaḥdaja, “to load, to saddle; to bring colocynths”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْدَاج‎ (ʔiḥdāj)
  • Active participle: مُحْدِج‎ (muḥdij)
  • Passive participle: مُحْدَج‎ (muḥdaj)

• حِدْج‎ m (ḥidj, “burden, load, palanquin”)
• حِدَاجَة‎ f (ḥidāja, “palanquin, gurney”)
• حَدَج‎ m (ḥadaj, “colocynth, melon”)

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 319–320
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ح د ج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 353