عَدْوَى
Root: عدو
Full Definition
عَدْوَى
Mange, or scab, or other disease, that passes, or is transitive, from one to another; a transitive disease; and such is said to be the جَرَب, and the بَرَص, and the رَمَد, and the حَصْبَة, and the جُذَام, and the وَبَآء, and the جُدَرِىّ. You say, لَا تُقَرِّبْهُ مِنْهُ
فَإِنَّ بِهِ عَدْوَى
Do not thou bring him near to him, for in him is a disease such as the mange, or scab, that is transitive from one to another.
2 And The transition of the mange, or scab, or other disease, from him that has it to another: the subst. from يَعْدُو said of the mange, or scab, expl. above, as meaning “ it passes ” &c. It is said in a trad., لَا عَدْوَى, i. e. لَا يُعْدِى شَىْءٌ شَيْئًا [A thing does not pass by its own agency to a thing]; or [lit.] there is no transition of the mange, or scab, or other disease, from him that has it to another.
3 And i. q. فَسَادٌ [i. e. Badness, corruptness, unsoundness, &c.]. (K, TA. [In the CK erroneously written in this sense عُدْوٰى; which, however, being an Verbal.Noun of عَدَا in the phrase عَدَا عَلَيْهِ, q. v., may be correctly used as having the same, or nearly the same, meaning.]) So in the saying, بِهِ عَدْوَى [In him, or it, is badness, &c.].
def.2 Also A demand that one makes upon a prefect, or governor, [or judge,] to aid, or assist, him against him who has wronged him, i. e. to inflict penal retribution on him, for his wrongdoing to him.
2 And Aid, or assistance, against a wrongdoer, required of a judge, for the bringing into his presence the antagonist: and also applied to a signet, or a [sealed] piece of clay, given by the judge as a token to denote the summoning of him whose presence is required.
2 And The transition of the mange, or scab, or other disease, from him that has it to another: the subst. from يَعْدُو said of the mange, or scab, expl. above, as meaning “ it passes ” &c. It is said in a trad., لَا عَدْوَى, i. e. لَا يُعْدِى شَىْءٌ شَيْئًا [A thing does not pass by its own agency to a thing]; or [lit.] there is no transition of the mange, or scab, or other disease, from him that has it to another.
3 And i. q. فَسَادٌ [i. e. Badness, corruptness, unsoundness, &c.]. (K, TA. [In the CK erroneously written in this sense عُدْوٰى; which, however, being an Verbal.Noun of عَدَا in the phrase عَدَا عَلَيْهِ, q. v., may be correctly used as having the same, or nearly the same, meaning.]) So in the saying, بِهِ عَدْوَى [In him, or it, is badness, &c.].
def.2 Also A demand that one makes upon a prefect, or governor, [or judge,] to aid, or assist, him against him who has wronged him, i. e. to inflict penal retribution on him, for his wrongdoing to him.
2 And Aid, or assistance, against a wrongdoer, required of a judge, for the bringing into his presence the antagonist: and also applied to a signet, or a [sealed] piece of clay, given by the judge as a token to denote the summoning of him whose presence is required.
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