عَنْوَةٌ
Root: عنو
Full Definition
2 Also Love, or affection: or submission, and concession: or a consequence of submission and concession, on the part of him from whom a thing is taken: or the taking peaceably, or by surrender; as Verbal.Noun of عَنَا [q. v.]: thus it has two contr. significations. A poet says,
which is said to mean, [And they did not take it, or her, or them,] by concession, and obedience, [arising from love, or affection,] without fighting: [but the smiting of the Mesh-rafee sword demanded the renouncing thereof:] 'Abd-El-Kádir Ibn-'Amr El-Baghdádee asserts the meaning of عَنْوَةٌ to be submission and concession; adducing as evidence thereof this verse; attributing the contr. meaning to the vulgar: both, however, are correct; and that first mentioned occurs repeatedly in traditions: but the most learned Yákoot Er-Roomee, in his Moajam, says that the verse above-cited may be rendered as meaning and they did not take it, or her, or them, by superior power attended by [or in consequence of] love, or affection: but they did so by fighting: and that this may be regarded as indicated by the poet's saying اخذوها; for otherwise he would have said, فَمَا سَلَّمُوهَا: and he says, it is a matter of common consent that عَنْوَةٌ signifies force, and superior power.فَمَا أَخَذُوهَا عَنْوَةً عَنْ مَوَدَّةٍ وَلٰكِنَّ ضَرْبَ المَشْرَفِىِّ ٱسْتَقَالَهَا
3 It is also a subst. from عَنَا in the first of senses mentioned in this art.: [i. e. it signifies Lowliness, humility, or submissiveness:] [and] so is عَنَآءٌ : see 1, first sentence.
4 And it is also a subst. from عَنَا as meaning “ he became a captive: ” [i. e. it signifies also A state of captivity:] see, again, 1.
def.2 And it is also a subst. from عَنَا in two other senses, as stated above: [i. e. it app. signifies also The act of putting forth, or producing, a thing: and of making it apparent, or showing, it:] see, again, 1.
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