Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَاقَعَ

Root: وقع

Form: 3

Full Definition

وَاقَعَIII He threw himself [or plunged] into the affair: he fell into the affair: he fell into the affair, subjecting himself to difficulty. And He fell to the thing; such as eating, and drinking, and the like: see 3 in art. فتك, for an instance of this, as well as a similar, meaning.
2 وَاقَعَ الأُمُورَ, Verbal.Noun مُوَاقَعَةٌ and وِقَاعٌ, app., He was near to doing, or experiencing, the affairs, or events; syn. دَانَاهَا.
3 وَاقَعَ شَيْئًا also means He experienced the occurrence of a thing; he met with a thing; i. e., something occurred.
4 وَاقَعَ شَيْئًا same as وَقَعَ فى شىءٍ He fell into a thing.
5 وَاقَعَهَا He compressed her.
6 وَاقَعَ بِهِمْ [He engaged with them in fight, or conflict].


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