Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَجِيبَةٌ

Root: وجب

Full Definition

وَجِيبَةٌ A daily allowance of food; or daily maintenance: syn. وَظِيفَةٌ: i. e., what a man is accustomed to allow himself [each day] as that which is necessary, and fixed: but the word in the A is وَجْبَةٌ, q. v.
2 وَجِيبَةٌ [A term employed in the case of] one's concluding a sale, and then taking it [meaning what is sold to him] by regular successive portions, one after another, or, as some say, on the condition of his taking a portion of it every day, until he has taken the whole of his وَجِيبَة: [which hence appears to signify both the act above described and also what is due to one of a thing purchased and taken in this manner; but more probably the latter is the only meaning intended]. When a person has finished doing this, one says to him قَدِ ٱسْتَوْفَيْتَ وَجِيبَتَكَ [Thou hast taken the whole of what was due to thee of the thing purchased and taken by thee in the manner above described].


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