قُرْبَانٌ
Root: قرب
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قُرْبَانٌ
: see قُرْبَةٌ: [it may often be rendered An offering, or oblation: and hence it sometimes means a sacrifice, as in the Kur iii. 179:] pl. قَرَابِينُ. قُرْبَانُهُمْ دِمَآؤُهُمْ [Their offering to God is their blood, lit. bloods,] occurs in a trad. as cited from the Book of the Law revealed to Moses, and as referring to the Arabs; meaning, they seek to bring themselves near unto God by shedding their blood in fighting in the cause of religion; whereas the قربان of preceding peoples consisted in the slaughtering of oxen or cows, and sheep or goats, and camels. And it is said in another trad., الصَّلَاةُ قُرْبَانُ كُلِّ
تَقِىٍّ [The divinely-appointed act of prayer is the offering to God of every pious person]; meaning, that whereby the pious seek to bring themselves near unto God.
2 Also, and , but this latter is by some disapproved, [A near associate; or] a particular, or special, associate or companion or consessor; or a consessor; and a particular, or special, associate or companion; [or a familiar, or favourite;] of a king, or of a governor, or prince; [or of any person who is either a superior or an equal;] so called because of his nearness: pl. قَرَابِينُ: and one says also, فُلَانٌ مِنْ قُرْبَانِ الأَمِيرِ [Such a one is of the near associates, &c., of the governor, or prince]; [for] قُرْبَانٌ is [said to be originally] an Verbal.Noun, and [therefore, as an epithet,] the same as sing. and dual and pl.: or, in a phrase of this kind, it is a pl. of قَرِيبٌ . (A in art. بعد.)
2 Also, and , but this latter is by some disapproved, [A near associate; or] a particular, or special, associate or companion or consessor; or a consessor; and a particular, or special, associate or companion; [or a familiar, or favourite;] of a king, or of a governor, or prince; [or of any person who is either a superior or an equal;] so called because of his nearness: pl. قَرَابِينُ: and one says also, فُلَانٌ مِنْ قُرْبَانِ الأَمِيرِ [Such a one is of the near associates, &c., of the governor, or prince]; [for] قُرْبَانٌ is [said to be originally] an Verbal.Noun, and [therefore, as an epithet,] the same as sing. and dual and pl.: or, in a phrase of this kind, it is a pl. of قَرِيبٌ . (A in art. بعد.)
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