رُوحَانِىٌّ
Root: روح
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رُوحَانِىٌّ
, with damm to the ر, and
رَوْحَانِىٌّ , with fet-h, but this latter is deemed strange by the lexicologists [as syn. with the former], app. rel. ns., from رَوحٌ [in the former instance], or from رَوْحٌ meaning the “ breath of the wind when weak ” [in the latter instance], extraordinary in form, with ا and ن added to the usual form of the rel. n.: Of, or relating to, the angels and the jinn or genii: in this sense Abu-l-Khattáb asserts himself to have heard the former used: accord. to AO, it is applied by the Arabs to anything having in it a soul, or spirit, whether a human being or a beast: or it has this signification also: accord. to Wardán Aboo-Khálid, as related by ISh, among the angles are those who are termed رُوحَانِيُّونَ, and those who are created of light; and of the former are Jibreel and Meekáeel and Isráfeel: and ISh adds that the روحانيّون are souls, or spirits, which have not bodies; [spiritual beings;] and that the term روحانىّ is not applied to anything save what is of this description, such as the angles and the jinn and the like: and this is the correct explanation; not that of Ibn-El-Mudhaffar, that it signifies that into which, a soul, or spirit, has been blown.
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