فوج

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier فَيْج‎ (fayj, “legman, courier; company”), borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pdk' /payg/, “foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier”) (Classical Persian پیگ‎ (payg)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fawd͡ʒ/ (singular)
  • IPA(key): /ʔaf.waːd͡ʒ/ (plural)

Noun

فَوْج • (fawj) m (plural أَفْوَاج‎ (ʾafwāj))

  1. company, group, crowd, drove, swarm
  2. (military) cohort, battalion, regiment (a military unit of size varying by state)
  3. (mining) shift, layer, stratum (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought):

Declension
Declension of noun فَوْج (fawj)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَوْج
fawj		 الْفَوْج‎
al-fawj		 فَوْج
fawj
Nominative فَوْجٌ
fawjun		 الْفَوْجُ‎
al-fawju		 فَوْجُ
fawju
Accusative فَوْجًا‎
fawjan		 الْفَوْجَ‎
al-fawja		 فَوْجَ
fawja
Genitive فَوْجٍ
fawjin		 الْفَوْجِ‎
al-fawji		 فَوْجِ
fawji
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَوْجَيْن‎
fawjayn		 الْفَوْجَيْن‎
al-fawjayn		 فَوْجَيْ‎
fawjay
Nominative فَوْجَانِ‎
fawjāni		 الْفَوْجَانِ‎
al-fawjāni		 فَوْجَا‎
fawjā
Accusative فَوْجَيْنِ‎
fawjayni		 الْفَوْجَيْنِ‎
al-fawjayni		 فَوْجَيْ‎
fawjay
Genitive فَوْجَيْنِ‎
fawjayni		 الْفَوْجَيْنِ‎
al-fawjayni		 فَوْجَيْ‎
fawjay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَفْوَاج‎
ʾafwāj		 الْأَفْوَاج‎
al-ʾafwāj		 أَفْوَاج‎
ʾafwāj
Nominative أَفْوَاجٌ‎
ʾafwājun		 الْأَفْوَاجُ‎
al-ʾafwāju		 أَفْوَاجُ‎
ʾafwāju
Accusative أَفْوَاجًا‎
ʾafwājan		 الْأَفْوَاجَ‎
al-ʾafwāja		 أَفْوَاجَ‎
ʾafwāja
Genitive أَفْوَاجٍ‎
ʾafwājin		 الْأَفْوَاجِ‎
al-ʾafwāji		 أَفْوَاجِ‎
ʾafwāji

Derived terms
  • أَفَاجَ‎ (ʾafāja, “to congregate”)

Descendants

References
  • “فوج” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), “فوج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 379
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “فوج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 643
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “فوج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2455
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “فوج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 986

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian فوج‎ (fowj), from Arabic فَوْج‎ (fawj, “regiment, battalion, crowd”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɔːd͡ʒ/

Noun

فوج • (fauj) f (Hindi spelling फ़ौज)

  1. force, army, military

Declension
Declension of فوج
singular plural
direct فوج‎ (fauj) فوجیں‎ (faujẽ)
oblique فوج‎ (fauj) فوجوں‎ (faujõ)
vocative فوج‎ (fauj) فوجو‎ (faujo)

Derived terms
  • فوجدار‎ (faujdār)
  • فوجی‎ (faujī)
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