فَسَادٌ
Root: فسد
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فَسَادٌ
an Verbal.Noun of 1: or a simple subst.: [as a subst. signifying] Badness, evilness, corruptness, unsoundness, wrongness, wrongfulness, impropriety, unrighteousness, wickedness, vitiousness, depravity, or dishonesty; the state of being devoid of virtue or efficacy; a corrupted, vitiated, perverted, marred, spoiled, deteriorated, or tainted, state; a state of disorder or disturbance, or of destruction, annihilation, consumption, waste, or ruin: contr. of
صَلَاحٌ. And it is also [frequently used as a quasi-Verbal.Noun] syn. with
إِفْسَادٌ
2 Also Drought, barrenness, dearth, or scarcity of good: so in the Kur [xxx. 40], ظَهَرَ ٱلْفَسَادُ فِى البَرِّ وَ ٱلْبَحْرِ i. e. Drought, &c., hath appeared in the land, and in the cities that are upon the rivers; accord. to Zj; or accord. to Ez-Zejjájee.
2 Also Drought, barrenness, dearth, or scarcity of good: so in the Kur [xxx. 40], ظَهَرَ ٱلْفَسَادُ فِى البَرِّ وَ ٱلْبَحْرِ i. e. Drought, &c., hath appeared in the land, and in the cities that are upon the rivers; accord. to Zj; or accord. to Ez-Zejjájee.
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