نَجْنَجَ

Root: نج

Form: R. Q.1

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نَجْنَجَ

R. Q.1 (Verbal.Noun نَجْنَجَةٌ, S,) He agitated the thing, or affair, to and fro, in his mind, and did not execute it; he thought upon the thing, or affair, but did not determine upon it. See R. Q. 2.
2 نَجْنَجَ الإِبِلَ He drove back the camels from the water: or he drove them back time after time to the tank, or cistern; expl. by رَدَّدَهَا على الحَوْضِ: [but عَلَى, meaning here to, seems to be a mistake for عَن, from]. Dhu-r-Rummeh says, حَتَّى إِذَا لَمْ يَجِدْ وَعْلًا وَنَجْنَجَهَا مَخَافَةَ الرَّمْىِ حَتَّى كُلُّهَا هِيمُ [Until, when he finds not a place of refuge, and drives them back from the water, fearing to be shot at, so that all of them are thirsting].
3 نَجْنَجَ He moved about [a thing; in the S, on the authority of A'Obeyd, a man], and turned over and over.
4 One says, نَجْنِجْ أَمْرَكَ فَلَعَلَّكَ تَجِدُ إِلَى الخُرُوج سَبِيلًا [Turn the thing over and over in thy mind, and perhaps thou wilt find a way of egress, or escape].
5 نَجْنَجَ, (Verbal.Noun نَجْنَجَةٌ, S,) He went round about in fright, or fear.
6 نَجْنَجَ اللُّقْمَهَ He moved the morsel to and fro in his mouth, and did not swallow it; like لَجْلَجَ.

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