Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَاْزَىَ

Root: جزى

Form: 3

Full Definition

جَاْزَىَIII see 1, latter part, in two places.
2 [جازاهُ خَيْرًا He prayed for a reward for him from God: or said to him, May God reward thee.
3 جازى بِحَرْفٍ and بِظَرْفٍ, He employed a particle, and an adverbial noun, as conditional; to denote that, with what follows, it expresses a condition with its complement. For instance, in the S, voce حَيْثُ, it is said,حَيْثُ مِنَ الظُّرُوفِ الَّتِى لَا يُجَازَى بِهَا إِلَّا مَعَ مَا, i. e. حيث is one of the adverbial nouns that are not employed conditionally, or to denote that, with what follows, they express a condition with its complement, unless with ما affixed thereto. See جَزَآءٌ, below.]
4 جَازَيْتُهُ [I vied, or contended, with him in repaying, requiting, compensating, or recompensing, and] I overcame him [therein].


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