ضَيَاعٌ
Root: ضيع
Full Definition
ضَيَاعٌ
an Verbal.Noun of 1 [q. v.]. [Hence] one says, مَاتَ ضَيَاعًا, as also
, and
, and
, He died unsought-after, or unminded, or unmissed. (K, TA. [See also a similar phrase voce ضَيْعَةٌ.])
2 Also A family, or household: or the meaning is عِيَالٌ ضُيَّعٌ, i. e. a family, or household, neglected, untended, and unminded; or such as are exposed, or liable, to perish, (بِعَرَضِ أَنْ يَضِيعَ,) as young children, and those who are crippled, or deprived of the power of motion, who cannot manage their own affairs: occurring in a trad., in which it is said that when a man died leaving such as are thus termed, (تَرَكَ ضَيَاعًا,) they were to be brought to the Prophet, to be maintained by means of the government-treasury: a prefixed noun is to be understood [i. e. it is for عِيَالَ ضَيَاعٍ or the like]: or it is an Verbal.Noun used as a subst. [properly thus termed]: or, accord. to one relation of the trad., the word is [which is likewise an Verbal.Noun, and in this case to be expl. in the same manner]: if read ضِيَاعًا, it would be pl. of ضَائِعٌ.
def.2 Also A sort of perfume, or odoriferous substance.
2 Also A family, or household: or the meaning is عِيَالٌ ضُيَّعٌ, i. e. a family, or household, neglected, untended, and unminded; or such as are exposed, or liable, to perish, (بِعَرَضِ أَنْ يَضِيعَ,) as young children, and those who are crippled, or deprived of the power of motion, who cannot manage their own affairs: occurring in a trad., in which it is said that when a man died leaving such as are thus termed, (تَرَكَ ضَيَاعًا,) they were to be brought to the Prophet, to be maintained by means of the government-treasury: a prefixed noun is to be understood [i. e. it is for عِيَالَ ضَيَاعٍ or the like]: or it is an Verbal.Noun used as a subst. [properly thus termed]: or, accord. to one relation of the trad., the word is [which is likewise an Verbal.Noun, and in this case to be expl. in the same manner]: if read ضِيَاعًا, it would be pl. of ضَائِعٌ.
def.2 Also A sort of perfume, or odoriferous substance.
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