ح • و • ج

, (S, Msb, K,) aor. يَحُوجُ, (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَوْجٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ احتاج, (S, K,) inf. n. اِحْتِيَاجٌ; (K;) and ↓ أَحْوَجَ; (S, Msb, K;) [the second of which is the most common;] the last, irreg. [for by rule it should be أَحَاجَ]; (MF;) are syn.; (S, Msb, * K;) and حَاجَ, aor. يَحِيجُ, inf. n. حَيْجٌ, signifies the same; (M, TA;) He, or it, wanted, needed, or required. (KL, TA.) You say, حاج إِلَيْهِ, (M, TA,) and اليه ↓ احتاج, and احتاجهُ, He, or it, wanted, needed, or required, him, or it. (TA.) [And in like manner, أَنْ يَفْعَلَ كَذَا ↓ احتاج He wanted, needed, required, or found it necessary, to do, or that he should do, such a thing.] And إِلَى فُلَانٍ ↓ اُحْتِيجَ [Such a one was wanted, or needed]. (JK in art. خل.) Also حاج, aor. and inf. n. as above, He desired, sought, or sought after. (TA.) And حاج and ↓ احتاج He was, or became, poor, or in poverty or want or need. (TA.)

, inf. n. تَحْوِيجٌ, i. q. عَوَّجَ [The road led him aside]. (K.) حَوَّجْتُ لَهُ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) I forsook my way in, or in respect of, love of him. (K.)

See حَاجَ.

-A2- It is also transitive. (Msb.) You say, أَحْوَجَهُ إِلَيْهِ غَيْرُهُ [Another made him to want, or be in need of, him, or it]. (S.) And أَحْوَجَنِى إِلَيْكُمْ زَمَانُ السُّوْءِ [Evil time, or evil fortune, made me to be in need of thee]. (A.) And لَا أَحْوَجَنِى اللّٰهُ إِلَى فُلَانٍ [May God not cause me to want such a one]. (A.) And أُحْوِجْتُ إِلَيْهِ [I was caused to want him, or it]. And أَحْوَجَهُ اللّٰهُ إِلَى كَذَا [God caused him to want such a thing]. (Msb.)

He sought an object of want, or what he wanted; (K;) or one object of want after another. (TA.) And خَرَجَ يَتَحَوَّجُ He went forth seeking, or seeking leisurely, or time after time, what he wanted, of the means of his subsistence. (A, TA.) And تحوّج إِلَى الشَّىْءِ He wanted the thing, and desired it. (L, TA.)

See حَاجَةٌ.

-A2- Also A certain kind of thorny plant or tree. (S, K.) See art. حيج.

(S, K, &c.) and ↓ حَايءِجَةٌ, (AA, IDrd, &c.,) of which latter the former is a contraction, (Kh in the 'Eyn, TA,) or the latter word is unused [except as an epithet, as will be seen below], and ↓ حَوْجَاءُ, (S, K, &c.,) are syn. words, of which the meaning is well known: (S, K, TA:) Want; need; necessity, or necessitude; exigency: (TA:) [whence,] اِبْنُ حَاجَةً one who is constantly in want, or need: (Har p. 143:) حَاجَةٌ is a more general term than فَقْرٌ; or each of these terms is more general than the other in some respects, and more particular in others: (TA:) and the former signifies also a thing wanted, needed, or required; an object of want, of need, or of exigence; a want; a needful, or requisite, thing, affair, or business: (A, TA:) [and a thing to be done, an affair, or a business:] pl. ↓ حَاجٌ, [or rather this is a coll. gen. n., of which حَاجَةٌ is the n. un.,] and حَاجَاتٌ, [which is of more frequent occurrence,] (S, Msb, K,) and حِوَجٌ, [which is of rare occurrence,] (S, K,) and حَوَايءِجُ, (S, Msb, K,) which is anomalous, (S, K,) and was disapproved by As, and pronounced by him to be post-classical, but he disapproved it only because of its being anomalous, (S,) and he is said to have retracted his assertion of its being post-classical, (TA,) for it is of frequent occurrence in the [classical] language of the Arabs, (S,) in their verses and in the traditions: (IB, TA:) it seems as though formed from the sing. حَايءِجَةٌ, (S, K,) which some assert to have been not used; or, accord. to some, it may be pl. of حَوْجَاءُ, changed from the regular form of حَوَاجٍ, [originally حَوَاجِىُ,] like صَحَارٍ, by putting the [elided] ى before the ج, agreeably with what is often done in the language of the Arabs. (TA.) You say, قَضَى حَاجَتَهُ [He accomplished his want]: (TA:) a phrase which signifies [also] he did his business; meaning he eased nature. (ISk, TA.) And خُذْ حَاجَتَكَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ [Take what thou wantest, or requirest, of the food]. (A.) And فِى نَفْسِى حَاجَةٌ and ↓ حَايءِجَةٌ and ↓ حَوْجَاءُ [In my mind is a want]. (AA, TA.) And لِى عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ حَاجَةٌ [I want a thing of such a one]. (TA.) [When the thing wanted, or not wanted, is mentioned, or referred to by a pronoun, the subst. denoting it, or the pronoun referring to it, is preceded by إِلَى, as in the sayings لِى حَاجَةٌ إِلَى كَذَا I have a want of such a thing, and مَا لِى إِلَيْهِ حَاجَةٌ I have not any want of it, and مَا حَاجَتُكَ إِلَيْهِ What is the reason of thy want of it, or thy wanting it?] You say also, وَلَا لَوْجَاءُ إِلَّا قَضَاهَا ↓ مَا بَقِىَ فِى حَوْجَاءُ There remained not in his bosom a want but he accomplished it. (TA.) [The dim. of حَوْجَاءُ is ↓ حُوَيْجَاءُ: whence the saying,] ↓ مَا لِى فِيهِ حَوْجَاءُ وَلَا لُوَيْجَاءُ ↓ وَلَا لَوْجَاءُ وَلَا حُوَيْجَاءُ I have no want, [nor any little want,] with respect to him, or it. (Lh, S, K.) [See also حَوْجَاءُ, below.] In the phrase حُجْ حُجَيَّاكَ [Seek the little thing that thou wantest], it seems that the second and third radical letters of the latter word [originally حُوَيْجَاءَكَ] have been transposed [and that حُجَيْوَاءَكَ has been then changed into حُجَيَّاكَ]. (IDrd, AAF, TA.) مَا تَرَكْتُ مِنْ حَاجَةٍ وَلَا دَاجَةٍ I left not any act of disobedience to which I was enticed. (TA from a trad. [But see دَاجَةٌ in art. دوج.])

See حَاجَةٌ.

You say also حَاجَةٌ حَايءِجَةٌ and ↓ حَاجَةٌ حَوْجَاءُ A great want; a thing much wanted. (TA.)

Safety; freedom from evil, harm, or the like: so in the phrase حَوْجًا لَكَ [God grant safety to thee]: (K:) said to a person stumbling. (TA.)

See حَاجَةٌ.

and see حَاؤِجَةٌ You say also, وَلَا لَوْجَءُ مَا فِى صَدْرِى بِهِ حَوْجَءُ There is not in my bosom any doubt respecting him, or it. (Th, S, K.) And وَلَا لُوَيْجَءُ وَلَا رُوَيْغَةٌ لَيْسَ فِى ↓ أَمْرِكَ حُوَيْجَاءُ [There is not any doubt in, or in respect of, thine affair, or thy case]. And -b2- وَلَا لَوْجَاءَ كَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا رَدَّ عَلَىَّ حَوْجَءَ, like the phrase بَيْضَاءُ فَمَا رَدَّ عَلَىَّ سَوْدَءُ, i. e. I spoke to him, and he returned me not a bad word nor a good one. (ISk, S, K.)

See حَاجَةٌ.

and see حَوْجَاءُ. You say also, خُذْ حُوَيْجَاءَ مِنَ الأَرْضِ Take thou a different and winding road of the land. (K.)

Poverty. (K.)

A man in want, needy, indigent, or poor; (Msb, TA;) [as also ↓ مُحْتَاجٌ:] the pl., by rule, should be مُحْوِجُونَ because it is an epithet applied to a rational being; but the pl. used is مَجَاوِيجُ: some, however, reject this, and assert that it has not been heard [as a classical word]: (Msb:) ISd thinks that محاويج is pl. of ↓ مِحْوَاجٌ, if the latter word have been used: (TA:) the vulgar say مَحَاوِجُ [as pl. of مُحْوِجٌ], meaning مُحْتَاجُونَ. (Mgh.)