سَعَةٌ
Root: وسع
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سَعَةٌ
Width; breadth; extent, or space, from side to side. See سَدِيلٌ.
2 سَعَةٌ العَيْشِ Ampleness of the means, or circumstances, of life; an unstraitened, or a plentiful, state of life.
3 سَعَةٌ [Ample scope for action, &c.: and a state in which is ample scope for action, &c.: see نَفَسٌ, and مِعْرَاضٌ:] richness, or wealthiness, or competence: and capacity, or power, or ability: and plentifulness and [consequently] easiness of life.
4 سَعَةُ الصَّدْرِ i. q. سَعَةُ الخُلُقِ.
5 لَكَ عَنْهُ سَعَةٌ: see رُدْحَةٌ.
6 يَجُوزُ فِى السَّعَةِ It is allowable absolutely, in other cases than those of poetical necessity.
2 سَعَةٌ العَيْشِ Ampleness of the means, or circumstances, of life; an unstraitened, or a plentiful, state of life.
3 سَعَةٌ [Ample scope for action, &c.: and a state in which is ample scope for action, &c.: see نَفَسٌ, and مِعْرَاضٌ:] richness, or wealthiness, or competence: and capacity, or power, or ability: and plentifulness and [consequently] easiness of life.
4 سَعَةُ الصَّدْرِ i. q. سَعَةُ الخُلُقِ.
5 لَكَ عَنْهُ سَعَةٌ: see رُدْحَةٌ.
6 يَجُوزُ فِى السَّعَةِ It is allowable absolutely, in other cases than those of poetical necessity.
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