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أمَنَةٌ

Root: امن

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أمَنَةٌ : see أَمْنٌ, in two places:
2 and see also أَمَانَةٌ.

def.2 Also A man who trusts, or confides, in every one; and so أُمَنَةٌ : and who believes in everything that he hears; who disbelieves in nothing: or in whom men, or people, trust, or confide, and whose malevolence, or mischievousness, they do not fear: and أُمَنَةٌ signifies trusted in, or confided in; [like أَمِينٌ;] and by rule should be أُمْنَةٌ, because it has the meaning of a pass. part. n. [like لُعْنَةٌ and ضُحْكَةٌ and لُقْطَلةٌ &c. (see لَقَطٌ)]: or both signify one in whom every one trusts, or confides, in, or with respect to, everything.
2 See also أَمِينٌ.
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