الأَمَامُ

Root: ام

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الأَمَامُ The location that is before; contr. of الوَرَآءُ. It is used [absolutely] as a noun, and adverbially, necessarily prefixed to another noun: and is fem., and sometimes mase.: or it is mase., and sometimes fem. as meaning the جِهَة: or, as Zj says, they differ as to making it masc. and making it fem. You say, كُنْتُ أَمَامَهُ I was before him, in respect of place. In the saying of Mohammad, to Usámeh, الصلَاةُ أَمَامَكَ, the meaning is The time of prayer [is before thee], or the place thereof; and by the prayer is meant the prayer of sunset. You also say, أَمَامَكَ [i. c. Look before thee; meaning beware thou; or take thou note;] when you caution another, or notify him, of a thing.

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