عجقة

North Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

  • عجئة

Etymology

Instance noun of the verb عَجَق (ʕajaʔ), which see.

Early dictionaries only attest the emotional sense, which may indicate that the crowd sense developed in parallel with the same sense of أزمة (ʔazme), originally "crisis".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕaʒ.ʔa/
  • (Druze, coastal Syria) IPA(key): /ʕaʒ.qa/

Noun

عجقة • (ʕajʔa) f (plural عجقات (ʕajʔāt))

  1. traffic jam
  2. overcrowding
  3. a crowd, hoard
    Synonyms: أزمة (ʔazme), زحمة (zaḥme)
  4. (possibly obsolete) emotional distress, worry, uncertainty

Adjective

عجقة • (ʕajʔa)

  1. crowded, packed
    Synonyms: معجوق (maʕjūʔ), عاجق (ʕājiʔ)
    هون كتير عجقة. ― hōn ktīr ʕajʔa. ― It's really packed here.
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