وَجْهٌ
Root: وجه
Full Definition
2 أَسْلَمْتُ وَجْهِى للّٰه I resigned, or resign, myself to God: i. e., I became, or become, *
3 مِنْ كُلِّ وَجْهٍ In every respect; considered from every point of view.
4 الوَجْهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ كَذَا The [proper or reasonable] way is that it should be thus: or the valid and obvious [way]. See تُرْعَةٌ.
5 وَجْهٌ A course, a purpose, or an object, which one is pursuing; a direction in which one is going or looking, & c. as also .
6 The way of a thing.
7 لَيْسَ لِكَلاَمِكَ وَجْهٌ There is no truth, or correctness, in thy saying.
8 وَجْهٌ Brightness [of intellect]. (L, voce كَدٌّ.)
9 لِوَجْهِ ٱللّٰهِ For the sake of God; or to obtain the countenance or favour of God. See فِى ذَاتِ ٱللّٰهِ in art. ذُو.
10 لَوْكَانَ كَذَا لَكَانَ وَجْهًا Were it so, it were reasonable.
11 لَا وَجْهَ لَهُ, said of a phrase, &c., There is no reasonable way of accounting for it.
12 لَيسَ بِالوَجْهِ same as لَيْسَ بِوَجِيةٍ? Not of respectable, or esteemed, or high, authority: or it is not the proper way.
13 اِبْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ اللّٰهِ From a desire of God's recompense: or countenance, meaning favour. There are several similar phrases in the Kur, where وجه is explained in the same sense of ثَوَابٌ in the Expos. of the Jeláleyn.
14 جَبَسَهُ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ [He withheld him, or restrained him, from his course, purpose, or object]. (S, art. الت.)
15 صَرَفَ الشَّىْءَ عَنْ وَجْهُهُ He turned the thing away, or back, from its course, عَنْ سَنَنِهِ.
16 خَرَجَ وَجْهُهُ (S, A, L, art. مرد; and L voce استعلج;) [for خَرَجَ نَبَاتُ وَجْهِهِ, The hair of his face grew forth].
17 وَجْهُ الدَّهْرِ The beginning of time, and نَهَارٍ of day.
18 رَوَاهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ, (S, K, art. قص,) and حَدَّثَ بِهِ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ: (Msb, art. قص:) see قَصَّ, in two places.
19 أَتَيْتُ الأَمْرَ مِنْ وَجَهِهِ, &c., and : see مَأْتًى.
20 وَجْهٌ The drift of speech.
21 مَضَىَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ [He went at random, heedlessly, headlong, or in a heedless, or headlong, course, or manner; and so ذَهَبَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ]: see رَكِبَ رَأْسَهُ in art. ركب.
22 دَهَبَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ حَيْثُ شَآءَ [He went away at random whither he would]. (TA in art. سوم.)
23 بَلَّتْ مَطِيَّتُهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهَا and أَبَلَّتْ: see 1 in art. بل.
24 أُطْلُبُوا الحَوَائِجَ إِنَى حِسَانِ الوُجُوهِ Make ye petition, for the things that ye want, to persons of good rank or station. (El-Hasan El-Muäddib, in TA, art. نضر.)
25 وَجْهٌ
26 وَجْهٌ and The place towards which one goes: or the place, region, quarter, part, or point, towards which a person, or thing, goes, tends, or is directed: so I have rendered : see صُقْعٌ, and مَسْجُوحٌ signifies any place towards which one looks or goes; as also : the place, or point, of the tendency or direction or bearing of anything: whence كَذَا in the direction of such a thing: and towards one quarter.
27 Hence, وَجْهُ الطَّرِيقِ The point, or place, to which the way, or road, leads: see ذَنَابَةٌ. And in like manner, وَجْهُ أَمْرٍ and The end, or result, of an affair, to which it leads, or tends.
28 رَمَوْا وَجْهًا وَاحِدًا [They shot in one direction]. (M voce رِشْقٌ.)
29 وَجْهُ الضُّحَى The first, or beginning, of the ضُحَى. (TA voce رَوْنَقٌ, q. v.)
30 وَجْهٌ A chief of a people or party.
31 أَتَوْا مَنْ وَجْهِهِمْ: see فَوْرٌ.
32 وَجْهٌ i. q. طَرِيقَةٌ [meaning The mode, or manner, of a thing].
34 مَا أَدْرِى مَا وَجْهُهُ I know not what is its meaning.
35 أَخَذَ وَجْهَهَا [app. He degraded her; took away her grade: and hence he took her maidenhead: see وَجَّهْتِ سِجَافَتَهُ].
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