مَدِينٌ
Root: دين
Full Definition
def.2 [Also Repaid, requited, compensated, or recompensed: and reckoned with.] أَئِنَّا لَمَدِينُونَ, in the Kur [xxxvii. 51], means Shall we indeed be requited, and reckoned with? [See also what follows, in two places.]
def.3 Possessed; owned; had, or held, under authority: [and hence,] a slave; fem. with ة: [or] so called because abased by work. غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ, in the Kur [lvi. 85], accord. to Zj, means Not held under authority: but Fr says, I have also heard [it explained as meaning] not requited [for your deeds]. [And it is said that] أَئِنَّا لَمَدِينُوننَ [mentioned above] means ائنّا لَمَمْلُوكُونَ [i. e. Shall we indeed be held in possession, or under authority, as servants of God?].
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