حيج
1 حَاجَ,
aor. ـِ (
Kr,
K,)
inf. n. حَيْجٌ, (
TA,)
i. q. حَاجَ,
aor. ـُ (
Kr,
K:)
extr., because the ا of حَاجَةٌ [which is its logical root] is [originally] و. (
TA.) 4 أَحْيَجَتِ الأَرْضُ, (
K,) irregular, like أَحُوَجَ, (
TA,) and أَحَاجَت, The land produced the thorny plants, or trees, called حَاجٌ: (
K:) or abounded therewith. (
TA.) حَاجٌ, a
coll. gen. n.,
n. un. with ة, (
TA,) A certain kind of thorny plant, or tree; (
S,
K;) a plant of the sour kind (مِنَ الحَمْضِ):
accord. to
ISd, a kind of thorny plant or tree,
i. q. كَبُرٌ [or caper]: or a certain plant different from that just named: or a certain kind of tree:
accord. to
AHn, an evergreen, of which the roots extend far into the ground; which, cooked, is used as a medicine; having slender and long leaves, seeming as numerous as the thorns: (
TA:) [asparago sylvestri similis: (Golius, from Ibn-Beytár:) this name, and عَاقُول, are now applied by the Arabs to the plant called by European botanists hedysarum alhagi: see عَاقُولٌ and تَرَنْجُبِينٌ:]
dim. ↓ حُيَيْجٌ; therefore its medial radical letter is ى; (
K;) and ↓ حِيَيْجٌ is a chaste
dial. var. of this
dim., agreeably with a usage observed in similar cases [when the medial radical letter is ى]. (
TA.) حُيَيْجٌ and حِيَيْجٌ: see what next precedes.
