Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اوجبهُ

Root: وجب

Form: 4

Full Definition

اوجبهُIV and وجّبهُ but this latter is by some rejected, He made it, or rendered it necessary, requisite, or unavoidable; necessitated it; made it, or declared it to be, binding, incumbent, or obligatory: [lit. accord. to some, he made it to fall on a person: see فَرَضَ.]
2 اوجب البَيْعَ, Verbal.Noun إِيجَابٌ, He made, or rendered, or declared, the sale binding, or obligatory; ratified it; made, or rendered, it fixed, settled, decided, or determined; completed, accomplished, or concluded; effectual.
3 اوجب لَكَ البَيْعَ He made the sale to thee to be binding, or obligatory; &c.
4 In like manner, البَيْعَ, Verbal.Noun مُوَاجَبَةٌ and وِجَابٌ; (Lh; in quoting whose words, the author of the K has made an omission, so as to cause it to appear that these two words are inf. ns. of اوجب; TA;) He, with his concurrence, made the sale to him to be binding, or obligatory; &c.
5 اوجب عَلَيْهِ شَيْئًا [He made a thing, or declared it to be, binding, obligatory, or incumbent, upon him; or unavoidable to him].
6 اوجب عَلَيْه القَضَآءَ He necessitated the sentence to take effect upon him; syn. حَقَّهُ and أَحَقَّهُ. (TA, in art. حق.)
7 اوجب He did a great sin, or an act of great goodness, making [the punishment of] hell, or [the reward of] paradise, the consequence thereof [unless followed by different conduct &c.]: he committed sins for which he who should punish him would be excusable, because he deserved punishment. (IAar, in TA, art. لوط.)
8 It is said, in a trad., that some persons came to Mo- hammad, saying, إِنَّ صَاحِبًا لَنَا أَوْجَبَ, i. e., Verily a companion of our's hath committed a sin for which he has become deserving of hell: to which he replied, Command him to emancipate a slave [as an expiation].
9 In another trad. it is said, أَوْجَبَ ذُو التَّلَاثَةِ وَالإِثْنَيْنِ, meaning, He of whom three children, or two, have gone before him [to paradise] hath become entitled to paradise.
10 أَوْجَبَ لَهُ الجَنَّةَ أَوِ النَّارَ It procured for him as a necessary consequence thereof [the reward of] paradise, or [the punishment of] hell; or made such to be to him a necessary consequence thereof; [unless followed by repentance &c.:] [it required for him paradise or hell.]
11 [يُوجِبُ كَذَا It necessitates, or renders necessary, such a thing.
12 It requires such a thing, as a necessary consequence.
13 It necessarily implies the coexistence of such a thing therewith. Used in physics &c., and perhaps in classical writings.]
14 أَوْجَبْتُ لِفُلَانٍ حَقَّهُ means I regarded such a one's right or due: and you say فَعَلْتُ ذٰلِكَ إِيجَابًا لِحَقِّهِ [I did that from regard to his right or due] ; [and اوجبهُ لَهُ He made it, or declared it to be due to him].
15 [اوجبهُ also signifies He affirmed it, he averred it; i. q. أَثْبَتَهُ as contr. of نَفَاهُ.
16 And It necessarily occasioned it.]

def.2 اوجب عَلَيْهِ He beat him, overcame him, in a case of laying a bet, wager, or stake, at a shooting-match or race.

def.3 اوجب اللّٰهُ قَلْبَهُ God made his heart to palpitate, beat, or throb; [to be agitated, or in a state of commotion].

def.4 See 1.


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