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تبيّن

Root: بين

Form: 5

Full Definition

تبيّنV , intrans.: see 1, in two places.

def.2 As a trans. verb: see 2, in seven places.
2 [Hence, الأَمْرَ being understood,] He sought, or sought leisurely or repeatedly, to obtain knowledge [of the thing], until he knew [it]; he examined, scrutinized, or investigated: he sought, or endeavoured, to make the affair, or case, manifest, and to settle it, or establish it, and was not hasty therein: or he acted, or proceeded, deliberately, or leisurely, in the affair, or case; not hastily: or it has a signification like this: in the Kur ch. iv. v. 96 and ch. xlix. v. 6, some read فَتَبَيَّنُوا, and others فَتَثَبَّتُوا; and the meanings are nearly the same: التَّبَيُّنُ was said by Mohammad to be from God, and العَجَلَةٌ [i. e. "haste"] from the devil.


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