عَنَتٌ
Root: عنت
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عَنَتٌ
[Verbal.Noun of 1, q. v.: and also expl. as having the following meanings:] Difficulty, hardship, or distress: this is [said to be] the primary signification: or severe difficulty, or hardship, or distress: or the coming of difficulty or hardship or distress upon a man.
2 A state of perdition or destruction.
3 A bad, an evil, or a corrupt, state: or bad, evil, or corrupt, conduct or doing: syn. فَسَادٌ [which has both of these meanings; and may here have the former meaning as nearly agreeing with what precedes it, or the latter meaning as nearly agreeing with what follows it].
4 A sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience deserving punishment; and so مَعْنَتَةٌ .
5 A wrong action [intentional or unintentional]; an error; mistake.
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7 Fornication, or adultery: but this is a conventional explanation of the lecturers of the colleges. So in the Kur [iv. 30], where it is said, ذٰلِكَ لِمَنْ خَشِىَ ٱلْعَنَتَ مِنْكُمْ [That is for him, among you, who fears the commission of fornication]: this, says Az, was revealed in relation to him who might not have the means of taking to wife a free woman; therefore it was allowed to him to take to wife a slave: or the meaning of العنت here is perdition: or perdition in [or by means of] fornication.
8 Also Wrongful, unjust, injurious, or tyrannical, conduct: and annoyance, molestation, harm, or hurt. And Distressing, grievous, or afflicting, harm, injury, hurt, or mischief.
9 And accord. to the 'Ináyeh, Contention; or contention for superiority in greatness: and persistence in opposition, or in vain contention.
2 A state of perdition or destruction.
3 A bad, an evil, or a corrupt, state: or bad, evil, or corrupt, conduct or doing: syn. فَسَادٌ [which has both of these meanings; and may here have the former meaning as nearly agreeing with what precedes it, or the latter meaning as nearly agreeing with what follows it].
4 A sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience deserving punishment; and so مَعْنَتَةٌ .
5 A wrong action [intentional or unintentional]; an error; mistake.
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7 Fornication, or adultery: but this is a conventional explanation of the lecturers of the colleges. So in the Kur [iv. 30], where it is said, ذٰلِكَ لِمَنْ خَشِىَ ٱلْعَنَتَ مِنْكُمْ [That is for him, among you, who fears the commission of fornication]: this, says Az, was revealed in relation to him who might not have the means of taking to wife a free woman; therefore it was allowed to him to take to wife a slave: or the meaning of العنت here is perdition: or perdition in [or by means of] fornication.
8 Also Wrongful, unjust, injurious, or tyrannical, conduct: and annoyance, molestation, harm, or hurt. And Distressing, grievous, or afflicting, harm, injury, hurt, or mischief.
9 And accord. to the 'Ináyeh, Contention; or contention for superiority in greatness: and persistence in opposition, or in vain contention.
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