حاجت ḥājat for A. حاجة, fr. حاج for حوج, 'to want or need'
P حاجت ḥājat (for A. حاجة, fr. حاج (for حوج), 'to want or need'), s.f. Want, need, necessity, exigency, poverty; a thing wanted, an object of want or need, a requirement, a needful or requisite thing, affair or business; a call of nature; hope, wish;—a place of detention (for prisoners pending trial):—ḥājat-bar-ār, adj. & s.m. Providing what is wanted or desired;—one who provides what is needed:—ḥājat rafʻ karnā (-kī or apnī), To relieve (one's) necessities, to supply a want; to go to the necessary, to ease nature:—ḥājat-rawā, adj. Providing or supplying what is needed:—ḥājat rawā karnā (-kī or apnī), To supply (one's) wants, to provide what is needful or necessary:—ḥājat-rawāʼī, s.f. The act of providing what is needed, supplying the wants (of), provision, succour:—ḥājat-mand, adj. Needy, necessitous, indigent; hoping, depending:—ḥājat-mandī, s.f. Need, indigence, destitution:—ṇājaṭ-meṅ rakhnā, v.t. To keep or place (a prisoner) in the house of detention.
