تَانِئٌ

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تَانِئٌ Remaining, staying, dwelling, or abiding, in a country, or town [&c.]; settling therein: also pronounced تَانٍ, by suppression of the ء: one who remains, stays, or abides, in his country, or town; i. q. دِهْقَانٌ [app. as meaning a man having a fixed abode in a district of cultivated land, or in a village or town of such a district: but see below]: pl. تُنَّآءٌ. It is said in a trad., لَيْسَ لِلتَّانِئَةِ شَىْءٌ, meaning For those who remain in their abodes, and go not forth with the soldiers on expeditions against the enemy, there shall be nothing; i. e., no share of the spoil.
2 Rich; wealthy; possessing much property. [Or A man possessing much land or other immoveable property: for this is a signification assigned to دِهْقَانٌ.]

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