جَوِي

to be consumed with a burning, hidden grief or lovesickness /ˈdʒawija/

verbB2#4162 most common

Also: to suffer from a concealed, gnawing inward pain, to waste away from unspoken love or sorrow, to find a place's climate makes one sick (in the derived form اِجْتَوَى)

Example sentences

جَوِيَ قَلْبُهُ.

His heart was consumed with grief.

جَوِيَتِ الفَتاةُ مِن شِدَّةِ الحُبِّ.

The girl was consumed with intense lovesickness.

جَوِيتُ لَيالِيَ طَويلَةً بَعْدَ فِراقِها.

I suffered inwardly for long nights after our separation.

يَجْوَى الشّاعِرُ كُلَّما تَذَكَّرَ وَطَنَهُ البَعيدَ.

The poet's heart aches with hidden longing whenever he remembers his distant homeland.

أَعْرِفُ أَنَّكَ تَجْوَى بِحُبٍّ كَتَمْتَهُ سِنينَ طَويلَةً حَتّى أَحْرَقَ فُؤادَكَ.

I know you are consumed by a love you concealed for years, until it burned your heart.

جَوُوا جَميعًا بِأَشْواقٍ لَمْ تَجِدْ سَبيلًا إِلى الإِفْصاحِ، فَذَبُلَتْ أَرْواحُهُمْ صَمْتًا.

They were all consumed with longings that found no way to be spoken, and their souls withered in silence.

Conjugation

	Present Active	Simple Past Active	Simple Future Active
1sg	أَجْوَى	جَوِيتُ	سَأَجْوَى
2sg	تَجْوَى	جَوِيتَ	سَتَجْوَى
3sg	يَجْوَى	جَوِيَ	سَيَجْوَى
1pl	نَجْوَى	جَوِينَا	سَنَجْوَى
2pl	تَجْوَوْنَ	جَوِيتُمْ	سَتَجْوَوْنَ
3pl	يَجْوَوْنَ	جَوُوا	سَيَجْوَوْنَ

Word family

جَوًىburning grief, deep-seated sorrow, or (in older medical usage) a chronic wasting illness

اِجْتَوَىto find a place's air or climate disagreeable, to loathe staying somewhere because it makes one ill

جَاوٍone consumed with hidden grief or pain (rare, literary)

مُجْتَوٍone who finds a place's climate sickening or unbearable

Etymology

جَوِيَ comes from the triliteral Arabic root ج-و-ي. Classical lexicographers such as the author of Lisān al-'Arab describe it as a pain that lodges deep in the chest and will not be dislodged by any remedy, and by extension a lover's grief that burns silently inside without release. Some dictionaries link this sense to جَوّ, meaning open air or exposure, since early physicians attributed sudden inward sickness to bad air. Arabic is a Semitic language, so its roots do not trace back to Proto-Indo-European; no PIE root applies here.

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