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جُوعٌ جوع , a subst., (Msb, TA,) signifying Hunger; or emptiness of the belly; (TA;) contr. of شِبَعٌ; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ مَجَاعَةٌ , [properly an inf. n.,] and ↓ مَجْوَعَةٌ , (K, TA,) and ↓ مَجُوعَةٌ . (TA.) You say, جُوعًا لَهُ وَنُوعًا [May God decree hunger to him]: accord. to Sb, an instance of inf. ns. in the accus. case by reason of a verb understood: it is a form of imprecation: and the latter noun may not be put before the former, because it is a corroborative to it: (TA:) or, accord. to some, نُوعٌ means “ thirst. ” (S, &c., in art. نوع.) And ↓ عَامُ مَجَاعَةٍ and ↓ مَجْوَعَةٍ (S, K) and ↓ مَجُوعَةٍ (TA) A year in which is hunger, or emptiness of the belly: (K, TA:) and ↓ عَامُ المَجَاعَةِ and ↓ المَجُوعَةِ [the year of hunger, &c.]: (Msb:) pl. مَجَائِعُ (K) and مَجَاوِهُ: as in the phrases أَصَابَتْهُمُ المَجَاوِعُ [Cases of hunger, &c., befell them] and وَقَعُوافِى المَجَاوِعِ [They fell into cases of hunger, &c.]. (TA.) And ↓ الرَّضَاعَةُ مِنَ المَجَاعَةِ , meaning The sucking which occasions interdiction [of marriage with the woman whose milk is sucked and certain of her relations] is that consequent upon hunger which is stopped by the milk in the time of infancy of the child; not when the child's hunger is only to be stopped by solid food. (Mgh.) [See also 1 in art. رضع.] And it is said in a prov., سَمَنُ كَلْبٍ بِجُوعِ أَهْلِهِ, i. e. [The dog's becoming fat is] by reason of [the hunger of his owners occasioned by] murrain befalling the camels; (K, * TA;) his owners falling into hunger and distress and leanness: (TA:) or كلب was the name of a certain man, who was an object of fear, wherefore he was asked for a pledge, and he pledged his family: then obtaining possession of the camels, or cattle, of the people to whom he had pledged his family, he drove them away, and left his family: (K, TA:) some relate this prov. differently, saying [سَمِنَ كَلْبٌ “ a dog, ” or “ Kelb, ” “ became fat, ” and] بِبُؤْسِ أَهْلِهِ [“ by reason of the distress of his owners, ” or “ his family ”]. (TA.) [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 615.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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