فَاجِرٌ
Root: فجر
Full Definition
فَاجِرٌ
Inclining, leaning, declining, or deviating. Declining (سَاقِطٌ) from the road.
2 Lying; a liar; because he deviates from the right course: and for the same reason it signifies also مُكَذِّبٌ [as meaning disbelieving; or a disbeliever; see فَجَرَ بِهِ, in the middle of the first paragraph]. And one says يَمِينٌ فَاجِرَةٌ meaning
3 فَاجِرٌ and فَجُورٌ , the latter of which is applied to a woman as well as to a man, and فَاجُورٌ , which is mentioned by Sgh, are all epithets from فَجَرَ, and signify [most frequently Acting vitiously, immorally, unrighteously, sinfully, or wickedly; or vitious, immoral, &c.; transgressing, or a transgressor; quitting, or one who quits, the way of truth, or justice; forsaking, or a forsaker of, the command of God; departing, or a departer, from the right way, or from obedience; disobedient; or] launching forth, or one who launches forth, into acts of disobedience: [but the second and third are intensive epithets:] also committing adultery or fornication; or an adulterer or a fornicator: and the first signifies also enchanting, or an enchanter: the pl. of the first is فُجَّارٌ and فَجَرَةٌ; and the pl. of the second
def.2 And فَاجِرٌ signifies also Having much wealth, or property: in this sense, a possessive epithet [from فَجَرٌ, q. v.].
2 Lying; a liar; because he deviates from the right course: and for the same reason it signifies also مُكَذِّبٌ [as meaning disbelieving; or a disbeliever; see فَجَرَ بِهِ, in the middle of the first paragraph]. And one says يَمِينٌ فَاجِرَةٌ meaning
3 فَاجِرٌ and فَجُورٌ , the latter of which is applied to a woman as well as to a man, and فَاجُورٌ , which is mentioned by Sgh, are all epithets from فَجَرَ, and signify [most frequently Acting vitiously, immorally, unrighteously, sinfully, or wickedly; or vitious, immoral, &c.; transgressing, or a transgressor; quitting, or one who quits, the way of truth, or justice; forsaking, or a forsaker of, the command of God; departing, or a departer, from the right way, or from obedience; disobedient; or] launching forth, or one who launches forth, into acts of disobedience: [but the second and third are intensive epithets:] also committing adultery or fornication; or an adulterer or a fornicator: and the first signifies also enchanting, or an enchanter: the pl. of the first is فُجَّارٌ and فَجَرَةٌ; and the pl. of the second
def.2 And فَاجِرٌ signifies also Having much wealth, or property: in this sense, a possessive epithet [from فَجَرٌ, q. v.].
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