Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَزَآءٌ

Root: جزى

Full Definition

جَزَآءٌ Repayment, requital, compensation, or recompense, for a thing; as also ↓; جَازِيَةٌ a satisfaction, good for good, and evil for evil; sometimes a reward, and sometimes a punishment: [the former word is an Verbal.Noun; see 1;] the latter, a quasi-Verbal.Noun: جَوَازٍ is pl. of the latter, or of the former, or of ↓جَازٍ, accord. to different writers explaining the saying of El-Hoteí-ah, مَنْ يَفْعَلِ الخَيْرَ لَا يَعْدَمْ جَوَازِيَهُ [Whoso doth good, he will not want his rewards, or his rewarders].
2 [Hence,] جَزَآءَ العُطَاسِ In the time between the complimentary prayer addressed to a sneezer (called التَّشْمِيت) and the sneeze; [or as soon as one can compliment a sneezer by repeating the usual prayer of يَرْحَمُكَ ٱللّٰهُ .] (TA voce مُعَاقِبٌ)
3 [And جَزَآءُ شَرْطٍ An apodosis; the complement, or correlative, of a condition; also called جَوَابُ شَرْطٍ, q.v. in art. جوب
4 And حَرْفُ جَزَآءٍ A particle denoting compensation, or the complement of a condition. And A conditional particle; as إِنْ; also termed حَرْفٌ لِلْجَزَآءِ, and جَزَآءٌ alone, and حَرْفُ شَرْطٍ.]
5 هُوَ ذُو جَزَآءٍ He is possessed of sufficiency, or competence, or wealth.


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