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اضاع

Root: ضيع

Form: 4

Full Definition

اضاعIV : see 2, first sentence, and last but one.
2 Also, [and app. ضيّعهُ likewise, accord. to the K,] He left the thing; left it, or let it, alone; or neglected it. You say, اضاع عِيَالَهُ He neglected his family, or household; omitted taking good care of them, or being mindful of them. وَمَا كَانَ ٱللّٰهُ لِيُضِعَ إِيمَانَكُمْ, in the Kur [ii. 138], means And God will not neglect [or make to be lost] your prayer. أَضَاعُوا الصَّلَاةَ, in the same, [xix. 60,] means Who neglected, or omitted, prayer, altogether: or deferred it: or who performed it in other than its right time: but the first explanation is more suitable, for the unbelievers are meant thereby.

def.2 اضاع [is also intrans., and] may signify He found his affair to be coming to nought.
2 And His estates (ضِيَاعُهُ) became wide-spread, and many, or numerous.
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