# موج
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* (noun) IPA: /mawd͡ʒ/
* (verb) IPA: /maw.wa.d͡ʒa/

### Noun

مَوْج • (mawj) m (collective, singulative مَوْجَة f (mawja), plural أَمْوَاج (ʔamwāj))
* torrent, surge, waves

#### Descendants

* Maltese: mewġ
* → Azerbaijani: mövc
* → Chagatai: موج
** Uyghur: مەۋج (mewj)
** Uzbek: mavj
* → Ottoman Turkish: موج (mevc)
** Turkish: mevc
* → Pashto: موج
* → Persian: موج (mowj)
* → Punjabi: مَوْج (mauj)
* → Sindhi: مَوْجَ
* → Urdu: مَوْج (mavj)

### Verb

مَوَّجَ • (mawwaja) II (non-past يُمَوِّجُ (yumawwiju), verbal noun تَمْوِيج (tamwīj))
* (transitive) to wave (the hair)
* (transitive) to ripple

#### Derived terms

* مَوَّاج (mawwāj)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: mewweġ

## Chagatai
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Noun

موج (transliteration needed)
* wave

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: مەۋج (mewj)
* Uzbek: mavj

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːd͡ʒ/, [mo̞ːd͡ʒ]

#### Noun

موج • (mōj) m (collective, singulative موجة f (mōja), plural موجات (mōjāt) or أمواج (ʔamwāj))
* torrent, surge, waves

### Etymology 2

From Arabic مَوَّجَ (mawwaja).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maw.wad͡ʒ/

#### Verb

مَوَّج • (mawwaj) II (non-past يِمَوِّج (yimawwij))
* to mix up colors, to degrade colors

##### Conjugation
## Kashmiri
### Etymology

From Sanskrit महल्लिका (mahallikā, “old, feeble”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [moːd͡ʒ]

### Noun

موج • (mōj) f (Devanagari मोज)
* mother

#### Alternative forms

* مٲج (mạ̄j)

#### Coordinate terms

* مول (mōl, “father”)
* بَب (bab, “father”)

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muːʒ/, /mawʒ/

### Noun

موج • (mūj, mawj) m (collective, singulative موجة f (mūja, mawja), paucal موجات (mūjāt, mawjāt), plural مواج (mwāj))
* waves

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj, “wave”).

### Noun

موج • (mevc) (plural امواج (emvac))
* wave, billow, ripple, undulation, a regular movement in water
    Synonyms: تالاز (talaz), طالغه (dalga)

#### Derived terms

* موج خیز (mevc hiz, “rough (of the sea)”)
* موج دار (mevc dar, “undulating, wavy”)
* موج زن (mevc zen, “boisterous”)
* موجا موج (mevc-a mevc, “wavy, flowy”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mevc

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mevc”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3179
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mevc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 758
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1242
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Unda”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1781
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5011
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2024

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Noun

موج • (transliteration needed) ?
* wave

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [mawd͡ʒ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäwd͡ʒ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäwd͡ʒ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäwd͡ʒ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäwd͡ʒ̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mowd͡ʒ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäwd͡ʒ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

موج • (mowj) (plural موج‌ها (mowj-hâ) or امواج (amvâj))
* wave
    Synonyms: کوهه (kuhe), خیزاب (xizâb)
** c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 1”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:شب تاریک و بیم موج و گردابی چنین هایل کجا دانند حال ما سبکباران ساحل‌هاšab-i tārīk u bīm-i mawj u girdābē čunīn hāyil kujā dānand hāl-i mā sabukbārān-i sāhil-hāThe dark night, the fear of waves, so terrifying a whirlpool! How can the lightly burdened on the coast know our condition?(Classical Persian transliteration)
** c. 1400, Shams-i Maghribī, “Ghazal 9”, in دیوان شمس مغربی‎:اگر موجت از آن دریا درین صحرا کشد روزی چنانت غرقه گرداند که ناری یاد از صحراagar mawj-at az ān daryā dar īn sahrā kušad rōzē čunān-at ğarqa gardānad ki n-ārī yād az sahrāIf one day, the wave of that sea should kill you in this desert, It will drown you so much that you will remember nothing of the desert.(Classical Persian transliteration)

#### Related terms

* مواج (mavvâj)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Noun

مَوْج • (mauj) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੌਜ)
* wave

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مَوج”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Noun

مَوْجَ • (mauja) f (Devanagari मौज)
* wave

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “مَوْجَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “موج”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːʒ/, [moːʒ]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

موج • (mōj) m (collective, singulative موجة f (mōje), paucal موجات (mōjāt), plural أمواج (ʔamwāj))
* waves

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْج (mawj).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /mɔːd͡ʒ/
* Rhymes: -ɔːd͡ʒ

### Noun

مَوج • (mauj) f (Hindi spelling मौज)
* a wave, surge, billow
* whim, caprice
* emotion, ecstasy
* heaps, abundance, plenty

### Further reading

* Platts, John T. (1884) “موج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “موج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “موج”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.