Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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1. ⇒ وقع

وَقَعَ الأَمْرُ The thing, or affair, [fell, befell,] happened; took place; came to pass; became [executed, performed, or] realized; syn. حَصَلَ. (TA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

وَقَعَ فِى He lighted, or came, upon a thing or place; and he became in a place.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

وَقَعُوا فِى السُّنَيَّاتِ البِيضِ [They lapsed into the years of scantiness of herbage]. (Ḳ in art. سنه, q. v.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A4

وَقَعَ إِلَيْهِ It chanced, or happened, to come to him, or it: and, said of a thing borne by water, it drifted to it, namely, a place.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A5

وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ It fell, lay, or closed, upon it, or against it.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A6

وَقَعَ بِالأَمْرِ He originated the thing, or event, and made it to befall. (TA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A7

وَقَعَ He fell into a snare, or the like: he became insnared.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A8

وَقَعَ فِى أَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ i. q. صَارَ فِيهَا [He was, or became, meaning he found himself, came to be, or chanced to be, in a desert, or waterless, land]; (Mṣb:) and فِى رَوْضَةٍ [in a meadow, or garden]: (T, Ṣ, in art. انق:) [or he lighted upon,, &c.; from the lighting of a bird].

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A9

يَقَعُ followed by عَلَى, often signifies It (a garment, &c., or a portion thereof,) lies against or upon a certain part of the body, &c.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A10

وَقَعَ بِهِمْ andأَوْقَعَ↓ بِهِمْ He made much slaughter among them: (Mṣb:) or he fought them vehemently: (Ḳ:) or he fell upon them in fight: (PṢ:) both mean the same: (Ṣ:) he made an onslaught upon them: اوقع بِالعَدُوِّ he made an assault, or a sudden assault, upon the enemy. (MA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A11

وَقَعَ فِيهِ, inf. n. وَقِيعَةٌ, He spoke evil of him, behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise, saying of him what would grieve him if he heard it; (Ṣ;) slandered him.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A12

He reviled, vilified, or vituperated, him; charged him with a vice, fault, or the like; defamed him; or detracted from his reputation. (Mṣb.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A13

وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا مِنْ كِفَايَتِهِ, [and مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ, (see Ḳ, art. فقر,)] It supplied, or sufficed for, his need; syn. أَغْنَى غَنَآءً. (Mṣb.) وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا signifies It stood in stead, or in some stead: see فَقِيرٌ, in the Ḳ; and see Bḍ, and Jel, ix. 60: and مَوْقِعًا عَظِيمًا, in great stead.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A14

لَمْ يَقَعْ مِنْهُ مَوْقِعًا [It did not stand with him in any stead]. (Ṣ, Ḳ, voce تَسَخَّطَ, end of art. سخط.) [You say] وَقَعَ مِنْهُ الأَمْرُ مَوْقِعًا حَسَنًا أَوْسَيِّئًا The thing stood with him [in good stead, or (if the expression be allowable) in evil stead]; syn. تَبَتَ لَدَيْهِ. (TA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A15

وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا مِنَ الحَاجَةِ [It supplied, or sufficed for, what was needed]. (Bḍ, ix. 60.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A16

وَقَعْتُ بِقُرِّكَ, and بِقُحَاحِ قُرِّكَ: see قُحَاحٌ.

Root: وقع - Entry: 1. Signification: A17

يَقَعُ عَلَى كَذَا It (a word) applies to such a thing.


2. ⇒ وقّع

وَقَّعَ فِى الكِتَابِ, (MA, TA,) inf. n. تَوْقِيعٌ, (KL, TA,) [as commonly used in the present day,] He signed the writing [for the purpose of giving effect to it, either beneath, or by endorsing it]: (MA, KL:) [but as generally used in earlier, though post-classical, times,] he annexed to the writing, after it had been finished, for the Sultán or the administrator of affairs, to whom it had been submitted, something [for the purpose of giving effect thereto]; as, for instance, when a complaint is submitted to the Sultán or to the administrator, and one writes beneath the writing or on the back thereof,Let the affair, or case, of this person be looked into, and let his right, or due, be fully exacted for this person:” or, accord. to Az, he wrote, upon the writing, a concise abstract, omitting redundances, of the objects of want [petitioned for therein]: from تَوْقِيعُ الدَّبَرِ ظَهْرَ البَعِيرِ [“the gall's, or sore's, marking the back of the camel”]; as though the مُوَقِّع upon the writing marked, upon the case respecting which the writing was written, that which confirmed it, and rendered its execution obligatory: (TA:) تَوْقِيعٌ also signifies such a writing itself (مَا يُوَقَّعُ فِى كِتَابٍ; Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) and its pl. is تَوْقِيعَاتٌ: (TA:) it is said to be an Islámic term; not old Arabic. (TA.) [Also He made an entry of a note or postil or the like, or entries of notes,, &c., in the writing, or book: see an ex. voce ضِعْف.]

Root: وقع - Entry: 2. Signification: A2

وقّع بِهِ He blamed him; reproved him angrily, or severely. (TA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 2. Signification: A3

3. ⇒ واقع

وَاقَعَ الأَمْرَHe threw himself [or plunged] into the affair: he fell into the affair: he fell into the affair, subjecting himself to difficulty. (MA.) And † He fell to the thing; such as eating, and drinking, and the like: see 3 in art. فتك, for an instance of this, as well as a similar, meaning.

Root: وقع - Entry: 3. Signification: A2

وَاقَعَ الأُمُورَ, inf. n. مُوَاقَعَةٌ and وِقَاعٌ, app., He was near to doing, or experiencing, the affairs, or events; syn. دَانَاهَا. (TA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 3. Signification: A3

وَاقَعَ شَيْئًا also means He experienced the occurrence of a thing; he met with a thing; i. e., something occurred.

Root: وقع - Entry: 3. Signification: A4

وَاقَعَ شَيْئًا same as وَقَعَ فى شىءٍ He fell into a thing. (Ḳur, xviii. 51, and Expos. of the Jeláleyn.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 3. Signification: A5

وَاقَعَهَا He compressed her. (MA.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 3. Signification: A6

وَاقَعَ بِهِمْ [He engaged with them in fight, or conflict]. (Ṣ.)


4. ⇒ اوقع

أَوْقَعَ الأَمْرَ, inf. n. إِيقَاعٌ, (with whichتَوْقِيعٌ↓ is syn., as is shown in the TA,) He made the thing, or affair, to happen, to take place, to come to pass, or to become executed or performed or realized.

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

أَوْقَعَهُ He caused him to fall into a snare, or the like; he ensnared him.

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A3

أَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ: see 1.

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A4

أَوْقَعَ فِيهِمْ شَرًّا He caused evil to befall them; occasioned them evil.

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A5

أَوْقَعَ بِهِ [He punished him]. (A, art. عذر.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A6
Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A7

أَوْقَعَ فِى قَلْبِهِ He put into his heart, or mind.

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A8

أَوْقَعَ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, (L, art. أرش,) or أَوْقَعَ بَيْنَهُمُ الشَّرَّ (TA, in that art.) i. q. أَرَّشَ. (L, TA, in that art.)

Root: وقع - Entry: 4. Signification: A9

أَوْقَعَ He made a verb transitive.


5. ⇒ توقّع

تَوَقَّعَهُ andاِسْتَوْقَعَهُ↓ He expected it; looked for its coming to pass, or being. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


10. ⇒ استوقع

إِسْتَوْقَعَ see 5.


وَقِعٌ

وَقِعٌ: see 8, in art. حذو.


وَقْعَةٌ

وَقْعَةٌ An onslaught; a shock in battle: (Ṣ:) or such as is repeatedly made. (Ḳ.)


وَقِيعَةٌ

وَقِيعَةٌ The wisp of wool,, &c., with which one tars a mangy camel: see رِبْذَةٌ.


وَقَّاعٌ

وَقَّاعٌ فِى الشَّرِّ [app., One who is wont to make others fall into evil, or mischief]. (Ḳ, voce مُنْدَاصٌ, q. v., in art. ديص.)


وَاقِعٌ

وَاقِعٌ Actually occurring.

Root: وقع - Entry: وَاقِعٌ Signification: A2

An event; a fact; a case.

Root: وقع - Entry: وَاقِعٌ Signification: A3

فِى ٱلْوَاقِعِ In fact; in reality.


إِيْقَاعٌ

إِيْقَاعٌ, in music, A cadence.


مَوْقِعٌ

مَوْقِعُ إِثْمٍ An occasion (lit., a place) of falling into sin.

Root: وقع - Entry: مَوْقِعٌ Signification: A2

[وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا: see وَقَعَ, in three places: lit., It fell in a place of falling, or where it should fall: sometimes app. meaning it had an effect.]

Root: وقع - Entry: مَوْقِعٌ Signification: A3

It is said of a half of a date given as alms, لَا يَتَبَيَّنُ لَهُ مَوْقِعٌ عَلَى الجَائِعِ كَمَا لَا يَتَبَيَّنُ عَلَى الشَّبْعَانِ إِذَا أَكَلَهُ [app., There appears not, of it, any effect upon the hungry,, &c.]. (O, in art. وقع, in explanation of a trad. mentioned there and in the Mṣb.) See وَقَعَ مَوَاقِعَهُ, voce عَلِقَ.


مُوقِعٌ

مُوقِعٌ An efficient.


مُوَقَّعٌ

مُوَقَّعٌ Tried, experienced: see مُوَقَّحٌ.


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