Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

هَيْئَةٌ

Root: هيأ

Full Definition

هَيْئَةٌ and هِيْئَةٌ Form, fashion, shape, aspect, or appearance; figure, person, mien, feature, or lineaments; guise; or external state or condition; state with regard to apparel and the like; or garb; state, condition, or case; quality, mode or manner of being: pl. هَيْآتٌ and هِيْآتٌ.
2 حَسَنُ الهَيْئَةِ [of goodly form, aspect, or appearance, guise, state of apparel, garb, &c.].
3 [Also, goodliness of form &c.: see 1. See also سَمْتٌ, for an addition.]
4 [هَيْئَةٌ عَارِضَةٌ, in Logic, An accidental mode.]
5 أَقِيلُوا ذَوِى الهَيْآتِ عَثَرَاتِهِمْ, in a trad., signifies, Forgive ye the people of good qualities &c., who keep to one state and way, their slips. It alludes to those who make a slip unwittingly.


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