ضَيْعَةٌ
Root: ضيع
Full Definition
ضَيْعَةٌ
an Verbal.Noun of 1.
2 See ضَيَاعٌ, below, last sentence but one.
3 Also A single case, or occasion, of perishing, coming to nought, passing away, or becoming lost; or of being left, left or let alone, or neglected.
4 تَرَكْتُهُ بِضَيْعَةٍ means I left him unsought-after, or unminded, or unmissed. (TA. [See also a similar phrase voce ضَيَاعٌ.])
def.2 Also i. q. عَقَارٌ [meaning An estate consisting of land, or of land and a house, or of a house or land yielding a revenue, or of a house and palm-trees, or the like]; and [particularly] land yielding a revenue; or with the people of the towns and villages and cultivated lands it signifies the property, of a man, consisting of palm-trees and grape-vines and land: but the Arabs [of the desert] know not the word in this sense: IF says, I do not reckon the application of this word as a name for the عَقَار to be of the original language, but think it to be an innovation in speech; and I have heard it said that this is termed a ضيعة because, when frequent attention to it is neglected, it perishes; and if it be so, this is an evidence of what we have said, that it is of the innovated speech: the dim. is ضُيَيْعَةٌ , for which one should not say ضُوَيْعَةٌ: the pl. is ضِيَاعٌ and ضِيَعٌ, as though the latter were a contraction of the former, and ضَيْعَاتٌ: accord. to Lth, the first of these pls. signifies places of alighting or abode or settlement; which are thus called because, when the paying frequent attention to them, or taking good care of them, and the keeping them, or putting them, in a good state, or state of repair, is neglected, they come to nought: and ضَيْعَاتٌ occurs in a trad. as meaning the means of subsistence. And, as used by the Arabs [of the desert], who know not the word in any other sense than this, A craft, or handicraft, by which one gains his subsistence; a mode, or manner, of gain; or any
2 See ضَيَاعٌ, below, last sentence but one.
3 Also A single case, or occasion, of perishing, coming to nought, passing away, or becoming lost; or of being left, left or let alone, or neglected.
4 تَرَكْتُهُ بِضَيْعَةٍ means I left him unsought-after, or unminded, or unmissed. (TA. [See also a similar phrase voce ضَيَاعٌ.])
def.2 Also i. q. عَقَارٌ [meaning An estate consisting of land, or of land and a house, or of a house or land yielding a revenue, or of a house and palm-trees, or the like]; and [particularly] land yielding a revenue; or with the people of the towns and villages and cultivated lands it signifies the property, of a man, consisting of palm-trees and grape-vines and land: but the Arabs [of the desert] know not the word in this sense: IF says, I do not reckon the application of this word as a name for the عَقَار to be of the original language, but think it to be an innovation in speech; and I have heard it said that this is termed a ضيعة because, when frequent attention to it is neglected, it perishes; and if it be so, this is an evidence of what we have said, that it is of the innovated speech: the dim. is ضُيَيْعَةٌ , for which one should not say ضُوَيْعَةٌ: the pl. is ضِيَاعٌ and ضِيَعٌ, as though the latter were a contraction of the former, and ضَيْعَاتٌ: accord. to Lth, the first of these pls. signifies places of alighting or abode or settlement; which are thus called because, when the paying frequent attention to them, or taking good care of them, and the keeping them, or putting them, in a good state, or state of repair, is neglected, they come to nought: and ضَيْعَاتٌ occurs in a trad. as meaning the means of subsistence. And, as used by the Arabs [of the desert], who know not the word in any other sense than this, A craft, or handicraft, by which one gains his subsistence; a mode, or manner, of gain; or any
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