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ج-و-ع

hunger

A2ElementaryAppears 5 times in the Quran

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فُعْل
Short noun فُعْل
فُعْل = a short noun with u
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- جُوعٌ
  hunger
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فَاعِل
Doer (active participle of form I)
فَاعِل = the one who does it
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- جَائِعٌ
  hungry
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  Feminine
  جَائِعَةٌ
  أَنَا جَائِعٌ I am hungry
فَعْلَان
State adjective فَعْلَان
فَعْلَان = full of a state right now
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- جَوْعَانُ
  hungry
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  Feminine
  جَوْعَى
فَعِلَ
Form I verb (i)
فَعِلَ = a basic verb, often a feeling or a state
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- جَاعَ
  to be hungry
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  Present
  يَجُوعُ
مَفْعَلَة
Place noun مَفْعَلَة
مَفْعَلَة = another place for the action, with ة
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- مَجَاعَةٌ
  famine
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  Plural
  مَجَاعَاتٌ

How the patterns shape this root

جُوع is hunger. The hollow verb جَاعَ، يَجُوعُ is to be hungry, and two adjectives say 'hungry': the state pattern فَعْلَان, جَوْعَان (feminine جَوْعَى), and the participle فَاعِل, جَائِع — أَنَا جَائِعٌ, I am hungry. A مَجَاعَة (مَفْعَلَة) is a famine, a time and place of hunger. Its opposite, thirst, is عَطَش, with عَطْشَان on the same pattern.

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