مَعِينٌ
Root: عين
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مَعِينٌ
Smitten with the [evil] eye; as also
مَعْيُونٌ , the complete form: or, accord. to Ez-Zejjájee, the former has this meaning, but
means اَلَّذِى فِيهِ عَيْنٌ [in which the last word is probably a mistranscription for عَيْبٌ; so that the meaning is, in whom is a fault, or defect], A poet says, namely, 'Abbás,
2 مَآءٌ مَعِينٌ and مَعْيُونٌ
3 عَيْنٌ means
[Thy people, or party, used to reckon thee a chief; but I think that them art a chief smitten with the evil eye, or, perhaps, in whom is a fault, or defect].قَدْ كَانَ قَوْمُكَ يَحْسَبُونَكَ سَيِّدًا وَإِخَلُ أِنَّكَ سَيِّدٌ
2 مَآءٌ مَعِينٌ and مَعْيُونٌ
[meaning Water collecting for a digger of which the springs have been reached by digging]; the last word, it as said, being put by him in the gen. case because of the proximity [to a word in that case, agreeably with a poetic license of which there are many exs.], مَعْيُونٌ, as it is an epithet relating to مٓء: Respecting the measure of مَعِينٌ, which IB derives from عَيْنُ المَآءِ. and explain as meaning having the source apparent, there are differences of opinion; some say that it is an instance of مَفْعُولٌ though not having a verb; and some, that of the measure فَعِيلٌ, from المعْنُ signifying the drawing of water. In the saying إِنْ كَانَتِ البَشَرُ مَعِينًا لَا تُنْزَحُ, meaning [If the well be one] having a running spring, (that willnot be entirely exhausted,] معينا is made masc. to accord with the word [بئر, which is masc. in form though fem. by usage]; or it is thus because it is imagined to be of the measure فَعِيل, in the sense of the measure مَفْعُول; or because it is for ذَاتَ مَعِينٍ, i. e. [having] water running upon the surface of the earth. In the Kur xxxvii. 44. [and in like manner in lvi. 18.] مَعِين is used as meaningمَآءٌ يُجِمُّ لِحَافِرٍ
3 عَيْنٌ means
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