عَوْضُ
Root: عوض
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عَوْضُ
and عَوْضَ and عَوْضِ; the first accord. to Ks and the Koofees, and the second accord. to the Basrees; (O, TA; [in which latter it is added that the second is the most common; but this I think a mistake; for I have most frequently found the first; and in the Mughnee, عَوْضُ is mentioned first, as in the S and K, and عَوْضَ last;]) indecl., like قَبْلُ and أَيْنَ and أَمْسِ, without tenween; [but not always, as will be seen below;] an adv. n., denoting future time, or all future time, like as قَطُّ denotes past time; meaning Ever; syn. أَبَدًا; but differing from أبَدًا by being appropriated to negative phrases only: you say لَا أُفِارِقُكَ عَوْضُ, or عَوْضُ
لَا أُفَارِقُكَ, meaning I will not separate myself from thee, ever; like as you say قَطُّ مَا فَارَقْتُكَ; but you may not say عَوْضُ مَا فَارَقْتُكَ, like as you may not say قَطُّ مَا أُفَارِقُكَ: or it denotes past time also, having the same meaning: for you say, مَا
رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَهُ عَوْضُ, meaning I have not seen the like of him, or it, ever: so in the two books [the O and the TS] of Sgh: and in like manner a poet says,
[And I have not seen a year, ever, more destructive]. But it is decl. when prefixed to another noun; as in the saying, لَا أفْعَلُهُ عَوْضَ I will not do it, ever; and لَا آتِيكَ عَوْضَ [I will not come to thee, ever]; like as one says, دَهْرَ الدَّاهِرِينَ: [for in this case you may not say عَوْضُ.] And one also says افعل ذَاكَ مِنْ ذِى عَوْضٍ, [in which the first word is written in some copies of the S and K اِفْعَلْ, and in others أَفْعَلُ,] like as one says, مِنْ ذِى أُنُفٍ, and مِنْ ذِى قَبَلٍ, meaning [Do thou, or I will do, that] in what is [now] to be begun [of time; meaning, immediately: see أُنُفٌ]: [thus making عوض decl., and using it without a negative, which must always accompany it when it is indecl.] [See also عِوَضٌ.] Or عَوْضُ signifies Time; syn. الدَّهْرُ and الزَّمَانُ; which is thus called because, as often as a portion thereof passes, it substitutes for it another portion: or, as some say, because they assert that it despoils and gives compensation. [See an ex. in the Ham p. 271, where it occurs in this sense with tenween, in the printed text, though said in the commentary to be indecl., with fet-h or with damm.] Or it is an oath; and is the name of A certain idol, belonging to Bekr Ibn-Wáïl: as in a verse cited in art. مور: but if so, there is no reason for its being used indeclinably in a verse of El-Aashà cited voce أَسْحَمُ [q. v.]: or it is a word used in the manner of an oath; a man saying to his companion, عَوْضُ لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ أَبَدًا [as though meaning Nay, that will not, or shall not, be, ever]: for if it were a noun signifying time, it would be with tenween; but it is a particle by which is meant an oath, like أَجَلْ and نَعَمْ.فَلَمْ أَرَ عَامًا عَوْضُ أَكْثَرَ هَالِكًا
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