Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَوْسَعَهُ

Root: وسع

Form: 4

Full Definition

أَوْسَعَهُIV [He made, or rendered, the thing ample, or free from straitness, to him;] he made the thing sufficient for him; syn. جَعَلَهُ يَسَعُهُ: [he gave him sufficiently of the thing; or largely thereof.]
2 اَللّٰهُمَّ أَوْسِعْنَا رَحْمَتَكَ O God, make thy mercy sufficient for us; syn. اِجْعَلْهَا تَسَعُنَا.
3 أَوْسَعَهُ أَمْرَهُ [He made, or rendered, his state, or case, or affair, ample, or free from straitness, to him]. (S, art. فرش.) See فَرَشَهُ.
4 أَوْسَعُوا لِلرَّجُلِ They made room, or ample space, for the man, in a place of standing or of sitting. (Msb, voce فَرَجَ.)
5 أَوْسَعَ عَلَيْهِ, and وَسَّعَ , He enriched him; or rendered him free from want.
6 See 1.


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