Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اِجْتِبَآءٌ

Root: جبو

Form: 8

Full Definition

اِجْتِبَآءٌVIII The drawing forth property from the places in which it is known, or presumed, or accustomed, to be.
2 The collecting in the way of choice, or selection.
3 See also 1, last sentence but one.
4 Also God's particular, or peculiar, distinguishing of men by abundant bounty, from which various blessings result to them without their labour; as happens to prophets and some others.
5 Also اجتباهُ, He forged it: and he extemporized it. Hence, in the Kur [vii. 202], قَالُوا لَوْلَا ٱجْتَبَيْتَهَا They say, Wherefore hast thou not forged it, or produced it, or invented it, or put it together by forgery, of thyself? or wherefore hast thou not sought it, or demanded it, of God?


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