عَزِيزٌ
Root: عز
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عَزِيزٌ
Mighty, potent, powerful, or strong, [in an absolute sense; as also
عَزٌّ , accord. to the Msb; and especially,] after lowness, or meanness, of condition: [high, or elevated, in rank or condition or state; noble, honourable, glorious, or illustrious: see عَزَّ:] rough in manners or behaviour: (TA: [see ذَلِيلٌ, which signifies, sometimes, the contr. of this:]) [proud: disdainful; scornful; indignant: see عِزٌّ:] resisting; withstanding; indomitable; invincible; not to be overcome; applied to a man: [difficult, or hard: and impossible, insuperable, or unattainable: see عَزَّ:] rare; scarce; hardly to be found: [and hence, dear, highly esteemed, or greatly valued: hence, also, applied to a word or phrase, rare, or extraordinary, in respect of usage or analogy or both:] and
أَعَزُّ also signifies the same as عَزِيزٌ [mostly in the first of the senses expl. above, or in a similar sense]: and
عُزَّى the same as عَزِيزَةٌ [app. as meaning noble, or the like], applied to a woman: the pl. of عَزِيزٌ is عِزَازٌ and أَعِزَّةٌ and أَعِزَّآءُ; but one does not say عُزَزَآءُ, on account of the reduplication, which is disliked.
2 مَلِكٌ أَعَزُّ signifies the same as عَزِيزٌ [A mighty, potent, powerful, or strong, King; or a glorious King]. And El-Farezdak says,
3 العَزِيزُ, as a name of God, signifies The Mighty, who overcomes everything: or He who resists, or withstands, so that nothing overcomes Him: or The Incomparable, or Unparalleled.
4 It also signifies The King; because he has the mastery over the people of his dominions: and especially the ruler of Misr together with Alexandria; a surname; like النَّجَاشِىُّ applied to the King of the Abyssinians, and قَيْصَرٌ to the King of the Romans.
5 وَإِنَّهُ لَكِتَابٌ عَزِيزٌ, [said of the Kur, in that book, xli. 41, means And verily it is a mighty book: meaning, inimitable: or] defended, or protected, from being rendered void and from being corrupted: or of great utility; unequalled. [الكِتَابُ العَزِيزُ The mighty book, is an appellation often given to the Kur-án.]
6 عِزُّ عَزِيزٌ signifies Great might, or the like: or might, or the like, that is a cause of the same to a person.
7 It is said in the Kur [v. 59], فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِى ٱللّٰهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ أَذِلَّةٍ عَلَى المُؤْمِنِينَ أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى ٱلْكَافِرِينَ, meaning, [God will bring a people whom He will love and who will love Him,] gentle to the believers, rough in manners, or behaviour, to the unbelievers: or submissive to the believers, though they be [themselves] mighty, or noble, proud to the unbelievers, though they be [themselves] inferior to them in highness of rank and in grounds of pretension to respect.
8 [And one says, هُوَ العَزِيزُ أَنْ يُضَامَ: expl. voce اَلْ . And هُوَ عَزِيزُ النَّفْسِ: see صُلْبٌ. And اِمْرَأَةٌ عَزِيزَةٌ عَنْدَ نَفْسِهَا: see ظَلِفٌ.
9 عَزِيزٌ also signifies Severe, difficult, distressing, or grievous; (see an ex. voce عَنِتَ;) and so أَعَزُّ , fem. عَزَّآءُ:] you say, سَنَةٌ عَزَّآءُ A severe year: and مَنْ حَسُنَ مِنْهُ العَزَآءُ هَآنَتْ عَلَيْهِ العَزَّآءُ [He whose patient endurance of a loss is of a good description, what is difficult, or distressing, becomes easy to him].
def.2 حَبُّ العَزِيزِ [The small tubercles that compose the root of the cyperus esculentus, which have a sweet and pleasant taste, and which women eat with the view of acquiring fatness thereby: and also that plant itself: both are thus called in the present day]. (TA voce سُقَّيْطٌ, &c.)
2 مَلِكٌ أَعَزُّ signifies the same as عَزِيزٌ [A mighty, potent, powerful, or strong, King; or a glorious King]. And El-Farezdak says,
[Verily He who raised the heaven built for us a tent of which the props are strong and tall]: meaning, عَزِيرَةٌ طَوِيلَةٌ: like the phrase in the Kur [xxx. 26], وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ [meaning هَيِّنٌ]: not implying excess, accord. to ISd, because اَلْ and مِنْ supply each other's places [and one or the other of these, or a noun in the gen. case expressed or understood after the epithet, is necessary to denote excess: see أَكْبَرُ].إِنَّ ٱلَّذِى سَمَكَ السَّمَآءَ بَنَى لَنَا بَيْتًا دَعَائِمُهُ أَعَرُّ وَأَطْوَلُ
3 العَزِيزُ, as a name of God, signifies The Mighty, who overcomes everything: or He who resists, or withstands, so that nothing overcomes Him: or The Incomparable, or Unparalleled.
4 It also signifies The King; because he has the mastery over the people of his dominions: and especially the ruler of Misr together with Alexandria; a surname; like النَّجَاشِىُّ applied to the King of the Abyssinians, and قَيْصَرٌ to the King of the Romans.
5 وَإِنَّهُ لَكِتَابٌ عَزِيزٌ, [said of the Kur, in that book, xli. 41, means And verily it is a mighty book: meaning, inimitable: or] defended, or protected, from being rendered void and from being corrupted: or of great utility; unequalled. [الكِتَابُ العَزِيزُ The mighty book, is an appellation often given to the Kur-án.]
6 عِزُّ عَزِيزٌ signifies Great might, or the like: or might, or the like, that is a cause of the same to a person.
7 It is said in the Kur [v. 59], فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِى ٱللّٰهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ أَذِلَّةٍ عَلَى المُؤْمِنِينَ أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى ٱلْكَافِرِينَ, meaning, [God will bring a people whom He will love and who will love Him,] gentle to the believers, rough in manners, or behaviour, to the unbelievers: or submissive to the believers, though they be [themselves] mighty, or noble, proud to the unbelievers, though they be [themselves] inferior to them in highness of rank and in grounds of pretension to respect.
8 [And one says, هُوَ العَزِيزُ أَنْ يُضَامَ: expl. voce اَلْ . And هُوَ عَزِيزُ النَّفْسِ: see صُلْبٌ. And اِمْرَأَةٌ عَزِيزَةٌ عَنْدَ نَفْسِهَا: see ظَلِفٌ.
9 عَزِيزٌ also signifies Severe, difficult, distressing, or grievous; (see an ex. voce عَنِتَ;) and so أَعَزُّ , fem. عَزَّآءُ:] you say, سَنَةٌ عَزَّآءُ A severe year: and مَنْ حَسُنَ مِنْهُ العَزَآءُ هَآنَتْ عَلَيْهِ العَزَّآءُ [He whose patient endurance of a loss is of a good description, what is difficult, or distressing, becomes easy to him].
def.2 حَبُّ العَزِيزِ [The small tubercles that compose the root of the cyperus esculentus, which have a sweet and pleasant taste, and which women eat with the view of acquiring fatness thereby: and also that plant itself: both are thus called in the present day]. (TA voce سُقَّيْطٌ, &c.)
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