زَجَا
Root: زجو
Form: 1
Full Definition
زَجَاI
, Present.T يَزْجُو, Verbal.Noun زَجَآءٌ and زَجْوٌ and زُجُوٌّ, It went, or became urged on or along, quickly.
2 It passed, or had currency.
3 It was, or became, easy; and right, in a right state, or right in its direction or tendency. Hence the trad., لَا تَزْجُو صَلَاةٌ لَا يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا بِفَاتِحَةِ الكِتَابِ i. e. [A prayer in which the opening chapter of the Book is not recited] will not be right.
4 Also, Verbal.Noun زَجَآءٌ, said of the [tax called] خَرَاج, It was, or became, easy of collection.
5 زَجَآءٌ also signifies The acting with penetrative energy, and effectiveness, in an affair. One says, هٰذَا الأَمْرُ قَدْ زَجَوْنَا عَلَيْهِ [app. meaning This affair, we have effected it, or accomplished it; like as one says, مَضَيْنَا عَلَى الأَمْرِ]. And عَطَآءٌ قَلِيلٌ يَزْجُو خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ لَا يَزْجُو [A small gift that is effective is better than much that will not be effective].
def.2 One says also, ضَحِكَ حَتَّى زَجَا i. e. [He laughed until] his laughing became stopped, or cut short.
def.3 See also what next follows, in two places.
2 It passed, or had currency.
3 It was, or became, easy; and right, in a right state, or right in its direction or tendency. Hence the trad., لَا تَزْجُو صَلَاةٌ لَا يُقْرَأُ فِيهَا بِفَاتِحَةِ الكِتَابِ i. e. [A prayer in which the opening chapter of the Book is not recited] will not be right.
4 Also, Verbal.Noun زَجَآءٌ, said of the [tax called] خَرَاج, It was, or became, easy of collection.
5 زَجَآءٌ also signifies The acting with penetrative energy, and effectiveness, in an affair. One says, هٰذَا الأَمْرُ قَدْ زَجَوْنَا عَلَيْهِ [app. meaning This affair, we have effected it, or accomplished it; like as one says, مَضَيْنَا عَلَى الأَمْرِ]. And عَطَآءٌ قَلِيلٌ يَزْجُو خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ لَا يَزْجُو [A small gift that is effective is better than much that will not be effective].
def.2 One says also, ضَحِكَ حَتَّى زَجَا i. e. [He laughed until] his laughing became stopped, or cut short.
def.3 See also what next follows, in two places.
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