يَأْجُوجٌ
Root: اج
Full Definition
2 يَأْجُوجُ and مَأْجُوجُ , imperfectly decl., [Gog and Magog;] two tribes of God's creatures; or two great nations; or two tribes of the children of Japheth the son of Noah: or, as some say, the former, of the Turks; and the latter, of the Jeel [meaning Jeel-Jeelán, said in the TA in art. جيل, on the authority of ISd, to be a people beyond the Deylem; and on the authority of Az, to be believers in a plurality of gods; ]: [said by the Arabs to be Scythians of the furthest East; particularly those on the north of the Chinese: or, as some say, the descendants of Japheth, and all the nations inhabiting the north of Asia and of Europe: ] said in a rad., on the authority of I' Ab, to compose nine tenths of mankind: or يأجوج is the name of the males, and مأجوج is that of the females: he who pronounces them thus, and makes the أ a radical letter, says that the former is of the measure يَفْعُولُ, and the latter of the measure مَفْعُولُ; as though from أَجَيجُ النَّارِ; or from مَآءٌ أُجَاجٌ; or from أَجَّ said of an ostrich; and imperfectly decl. as being determinate and fem.: he who pronounces them without ء, making the ا in each an augmentative letter, says that the former is from يَجَجْتُ, and the latter from مَجَجْتُ: this is the case if they be Arabic: but some say that they are foreign names; their being imperfectly decl. is said to indicate this; and if so, the ا in them is similar to that in هَارُوت and مَارُوت and دَاوُود and the like; and the ء, anomalous, as that in عَأْلِمٌ and the like; and their measure is فَاعُولُ. Ru-beh used to read آجُوجُ and مَاجُوجُ [in the CK مأجُوج]; and Aboo-Mo'ádh, يَمْجُوجُ.
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