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إِعْطَآءٌ

Root: عطو

Form: 4

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إِعْطَآءٌIV , and and عِطَآءٌ, The act of giving, presenting, or offering; or giving with the hand in the way of presenting or offering; syn. مُنَاوَلَةٌ عَلَى جِهَةِ التَّقْرِيبِ; and إِعْطَآءٌ has been expl. as syn. with إِيتآءٌ; but several authors make a distinction between these two words, saying that the latter is sometimes obligatory and sometimes by way of favour, whereas the former is never but by way of sheer favour; as El-Fakhr Er-Rázee says; though most of the leading lexicologists know not this distinction. One says, أَعْطَاهُ الشَّىْءَ; and إِيَّاهُ, Verbal.Noun مُعَاطَاةٌ and عِطَآءٌ; He gave him, &c., the thing. And اعطاهُ مَالًا [He gave him, &c., property]. And أَعْطَيْتُهُ دِرْهَمًا I gave him, &c., a dirhem. And as the signification of this verb does not depend upon the condition of taking, or receiving, but only upon giving, or delivering, one may say, أَعْطَيْتُهُ فَمَا أَخَذَ [I gave, or delivered, &c., to him, and he did not take, or receive]. [See also a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. رأم, in which this verb has a single objective complement with بِ redundantly prefixed to it.]
2 اعطى, Verbal.Noun as above, signifies also He was, or became, tractable, manageable, or submissive; said of a camel: and اعطى بِيَدِهِ [lit. he gave his hand, said of a man,] signifies the same: accord. to Er-Rághib, اعطى, said of a camel, primarily signifies he gave his head, and did not resist. [Hence,] one says to a tractable camel, when his haltering becomes loosed from his muzzle, أَعْطِ [meaning Give thy head]; whereupon he bends his head towards his rider, and he renews his haltering.
3 مَا أَعْطَاهُ لِلْمَالِ [How large a giver is he of property!] is like the phrase مَا أَوْلَاهُ لِلْمَعْرُوفِ, and مَا أَكْرَمَهُ لِى; anomalous, because the verb of wonder is not formed from the measure أَفْعَلَ, and only what has been heard, of this kind, from the Arabs, is allowable.
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