اِتَّقى
Root: وقى
Form: 8
Full Definition
2 In the conventional language of the law, He preserved, or guarded, himself exceedingly, or extraordinarily, from sin, of commission or of omission, [or] from what would harm him in the world to come. It may often be rendered He was pious; or careful of his religious duties.
3 اِتَّقَى عَلَيْهِمْ وَحَذِرَ [He guarded himself against them in an extraordinary degree, and was cautious, or wary]. (JK, TA, in art. خشى.) See 1.
4 يَتْقِى, for يَتَّقِى: see art. تقى: and see a verse of Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh, (quoted in the S, in art. وقى,) cited voce أَثْرٌ.
5 يَتَّقْ for يَتَّقِ: see a verse cited voce مُتَأَوِّبٌ.
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