جَبَرِيَّةٌ
Root: جبر
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جَبَرِيَّةٌ
and جَبْرِيَّةٌ and جِبْرِيَّةٌ and جِبِرِيَّةٌ and
جِبْرِيَآءُ and
and
جَبَرُوَّةٌ and
and
(S, Msb, K, one of the forms most known, of the measure فَعَلُوتٌ, like مَلَكُوتٌ and رَهَبُوتٌ and رَغَبُوتٌ and رَحَمُوتٌ, said to be the only other words of this measure, though, as MF says, this requires consideration, TA) and
and
and
(K, like رَحَمُوتَى, [&c.], TA) and
جَبُّورَةٌ and
جَبُّورٌ and
and
جُبُورَةٌ and
تَجْبَارٌ , all inf. ns., [or simple substs.,] meaning The quality denoted by the epithet
جَبَّارٌ; i. e. self-magnification, pride, haughtiness, or insolence; or proud, haughty, or insolent, behaviour; &c. Hence, مَا كَانَتْ نُبُوَّةٌ إِلَّا تَنَاسَخَهَا مُلْكٌ جَبَرِيَّةً [There has been no prophetic office but a kingly office has succeeded in its place through some one's selfmagnification, pride, haughtiness, or insolence]; i. e., but kings have magnified themselves, or behaved proudly or haughtily or insolently, after it.
def.2 الجَبَرِيَّةُ and الجَبْرِيَّةُ, or the latter is a mispronunciation, or is the correct form, and the former is so pronounced in order to assimilate it to القَدَرِيَّةُ; the latter is the pronunciation of the scholastic theologians of the persuasion of EshSháfi'ee in old times, but the term used in the conventional language of the modern scholastic theologians is المُجْبَرَةُ ; and الجبريّة, also, is a postclassical term; The contr. of القَدَرِيَّةُ; the sect who hold the tenet termed جَبْرٌ [q. v.]; a sect of those who follow their own natural desires, whose founder was El- Hoseyn Ibn-Mohammad En-Nejjár El-Basree, who assert that man has no power; that [what are termed] voluntary motions are of the same predicament as a tremour; though this does not oblige them to deny the imposition of duties; a sect who assert that God compels his servants, or mankind, to commit sins: n. un. جَبَرِىٌّ or جَبْرِىٌّ.
def.2 الجَبَرِيَّةُ and الجَبْرِيَّةُ, or the latter is a mispronunciation, or is the correct form, and the former is so pronounced in order to assimilate it to القَدَرِيَّةُ; the latter is the pronunciation of the scholastic theologians of the persuasion of EshSháfi'ee in old times, but the term used in the conventional language of the modern scholastic theologians is المُجْبَرَةُ ; and الجبريّة, also, is a postclassical term; The contr. of القَدَرِيَّةُ; the sect who hold the tenet termed جَبْرٌ [q. v.]; a sect of those who follow their own natural desires, whose founder was El- Hoseyn Ibn-Mohammad En-Nejjár El-Basree, who assert that man has no power; that [what are termed] voluntary motions are of the same predicament as a tremour; though this does not oblige them to deny the imposition of duties; a sect who assert that God compels his servants, or mankind, to commit sins: n. un. جَبَرِىٌّ or جَبْرِىٌّ.
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