جُنُبٌ
Root: جنب
Full Definition
جُنُبٌ
, which is sometimes used in the sing. form as pl., and has no fem. form, and
جَانِبٌ and
أَجْنَبِىٌّ , which is said by Az in art. روح to be seldom or never used by the Arabs, but is mentioned by him in its proper art., and
أَجْنَبُ , are syn., signifying A stranger; as also
جَنِيبٌ : or a man who is distant, or remote: or distant, or remote, in respect of relationship: [or not a relation; as will be seen from what follows:] and
جَانِبٌ [as an act. part. n.] signifies one alighting, or descending and abiding, or settling, as a stranger, among a tribe: pl. of the first أَجْنَابٌ, and of the second جُنَّابٌ, and of the fourth أَجَانِبُ. الجَارُ
الجُنُبُ [occurring in the Kur iv. 40] and جَارُ الجُنُبِ The person who is one's neighbour, but who belongs to another people; who is not of one's family nor of one's lineage; who is of another lineage than he of whom he is a neighbour; who is not a relation: or one who is distant, or remote, in an absolute sense: or the person who is not a relation to another, and who comes to him, and asks him to protect him, and abides with him: such has the title to respect that belongs to him as neighbour of the other, and to his protection, and as relying upon his safeguard and promise. (TA in art. جور. [Differing from جَارُ الجَنْبِ, q. v. suprà.]) It is said in a trad., هُمْ أَجْنَابُ النَّاسِ
They are the strangers of mankind, or of the people. And in another trad., قَالَ لِجَارِيّةٍ هَلْ مِنْ مُغَرِبَةِ خَبَرٍ قَالَتْ عَلَى الخَبَرُ [He said to a girl, Is there any news from abroad? She answered,] It is for a stranger coming from a journey [to give such news]. And one says, هُوَ أَجْنَبِىٌّ مِنِّى [He is a person not related to me].
2 Also, ↓ the same four words, That will not be led; intractable.
3 جُنُبٌ is also an epithet from الجَنَابَةُ; signifying A man under the obligation of performing a total ablution, by reason of sexual intercourse and discharge of the semen: and is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and dual and pl.; being regarded as quasi-coordinate to the class of inf. ns.; for the Verbal.Noun, when used as an epithet, must remain, in form, sing. and masc.: (MF in art. عفت:) or one may use the dual form جُنُبَانِ; and sometimes they used the pl. أَجْنَابٌ and جُنُبُونَ, and the fem. pl. جُنُبَاتٌ; but not جُنُبَةٌ, applied to a female. It is said in a trad., لَا تَدْخُلُ المَلَائِكَةُ بِيْتًا فِيهِ جُنُبٌ, meaning [The angels will not enter a house, or chamber, or tent, in which is] one who usually neglects the total ablution when under an obligation to perform it for the cause above mentioned.
2 Also, ↓ the same four words, That will not be led; intractable.
3 جُنُبٌ is also an epithet from الجَنَابَةُ; signifying A man under the obligation of performing a total ablution, by reason of sexual intercourse and discharge of the semen: and is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and dual and pl.; being regarded as quasi-coordinate to the class of inf. ns.; for the Verbal.Noun, when used as an epithet, must remain, in form, sing. and masc.: (MF in art. عفت:) or one may use the dual form جُنُبَانِ; and sometimes they used the pl. أَجْنَابٌ and جُنُبُونَ, and the fem. pl. جُنُبَاتٌ; but not جُنُبَةٌ, applied to a female. It is said in a trad., لَا تَدْخُلُ المَلَائِكَةُ بِيْتًا فِيهِ جُنُبٌ, meaning [The angels will not enter a house, or chamber, or tent, in which is] one who usually neglects the total ablution when under an obligation to perform it for the cause above mentioned.
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