أَعَزُّ
Root: عز
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أَعَزُّ
[More, and most, mighty, potent, powerful, or strong: &c.: see عَزِيزٌ, of which it is the comparative and superlative form: and see an ex. voce اَلْ : and another in a verse cited in art. صب, conj. 6]. It is related in a trad. of Aboo-Bekr, that he said to 'Áïsheh, إِنَّ أَحَبَّ
النَّاسِ إِلَىَّ غَنًى أَنْتِ وَأَعَزُّهُمْ فَقْرًا أَنْتِ, meaning. Verily the one of mankind whose richness is most pleasing to me art thou; and the one of them whose poverty is most distressing to me art thou. The fem. of أَعَزُّ [as a noun of excess] is
عُزَّى : like as فُضْلَى is of أَفْضَلُ. [But see what follows.]
2 was the name of A certain idol, belonging to Kureysh and Benoo-Kináneh: or a certain gum-acacia-tree, (سَمُرَةٌ,) which the tribe of Ghatafán the son of Saad the son of Keys-'Eilán used to worship; the first who took it as an object of worship was Dhálim the son of As' ad; above Dhát- 'Irk, nine miles towards El-Bustán, at [the valley called] En-Nakhleh Esh-Shámeeyeh, near Mekkeh; or, as some say, at Et- Táïf: he, Dhálim, or they, built over it a house, and named it بُسّ, accord. to Ibn-El-Kelbee; or, accord. to others, بُسَّآء; and they appointed to it ministers, like those of the Kaabeh; and they used to hear in it a voice: but Mohammad sent to it Khálid Ibn-El-Weleed, in the year of the conquest [of Mekkeh], and he demolished the house, and slew the [chief] minister, and burned the gum-acacia-tree: or, as is related on the authority of I'Ab, a certain she-devil, who used to come to three gumacacia-trees (سَمُرَات) in Batn-Nakhleh, against whom Mohammad, when he conquered Mekkeh,
3 عُزَّى is [however] used in the sense of عَزِيزَةٌ: and أَعَزُّ [fem. عَزَّآءُ] is also syn. with عَزِيزٌ, which see in four places.
2 was the name of A certain idol, belonging to Kureysh and Benoo-Kináneh: or a certain gum-acacia-tree, (سَمُرَةٌ,) which the tribe of Ghatafán the son of Saad the son of Keys-'Eilán used to worship; the first who took it as an object of worship was Dhálim the son of As' ad; above Dhát- 'Irk, nine miles towards El-Bustán, at [the valley called] En-Nakhleh Esh-Shámeeyeh, near Mekkeh; or, as some say, at Et- Táïf: he, Dhálim, or they, built over it a house, and named it بُسّ, accord. to Ibn-El-Kelbee; or, accord. to others, بُسَّآء; and they appointed to it ministers, like those of the Kaabeh; and they used to hear in it a voice: but Mohammad sent to it Khálid Ibn-El-Weleed, in the year of the conquest [of Mekkeh], and he demolished the house, and slew the [chief] minister, and burned the gum-acacia-tree: or, as is related on the authority of I'Ab, a certain she-devil, who used to come to three gumacacia-trees (سَمُرَات) in Batn-Nakhleh, against whom Mohammad, when he conquered Mekkeh,
[Verily, or now surely, by bloods flowing, and running hither and thither, which thou wouldst think to be dragon's-blood, upon the mountain-top of El-' Ozzà, and by En-Nesr]. ISd says, I hold to be fem. of الأَعَزُّ; and if so, the ال in the former is not redundant, but is like the ال in الحَارِثُ and العَبَّاسُ: but properly it should be redundant, because we have not heard العُزَّى as an epithet [of excess] like as we have heard الصُّغْرَى and الكُبْرَى.أَمَا وَدِمَآءٍ مَائِرَاتٍ تَخَالُهَا عَلَى قُنَّةِ العُزَّى وَبِالنَّسْرِ عَنْدَمَا
3 عُزَّى is [however] used in the sense of عَزِيزَةٌ: and أَعَزُّ [fem. عَزَّآءُ] is also syn. with عَزِيزٌ, which see in four places.
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