تَحِيَّةٌ
Root: حى
Full Definition
2 Also A salutation, or greeting, pronounced by one person to another on their meeting; particularly the saying سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ; and the like; the most comprehensive form thereof, used by the believer [to his fellow-believer], being the saying السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ: hence it is pluralized; the pl. being تَحِيَّاتٌ and تَحَايَا.
3 Also Continuance, or endurance; or endless, or everlasting, existence:
[And indeed everything that the young man has attained, I have attained it, except endless existence]: or, as some say, it here means security from death and from evils. (TA. [But more probably the meaning is that next following: for in the Mz, 49th نوع, where this verse is cited, but with مِنْ كُلِّ in the place of وَلَكُلُّ, he is said to have been “ a nobleman. ” See also, respecting him, p. x. of my Preface.]) Andقَدْ نِلْتُهُ إِلَّا التَّحِيَّهْ وَلَكُلُّ مَا نَالَ الفَتَى
4 The assigning to this word, as used in the Kur iv. 88, the meaning of A gift is a mistake.
def.2 See also التَّحَايِى.
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