نَاجِزٌ
Root: نجز
Full Definition
نَاجِزٌ
Coming to an end; coming to nought; perishing; passing away.
2 [Complete: accomplished.]
3 A promise that has been fulfilled; as also نَجِيزٌ : or that has come to pass, and is accomplished.
4 Present; ready; as also نَجِيزٌ : and ↓ both, promptly, or quickly, done, or given. You say, بِعْتُهُ نَاجِزًا بِنَاجِزٍ [I sold it, or I sold to him,] present, or ready, [merchandise,] for present, or ready, [money,] like يَدًا بِيَدٍ, i. e., تَعْجِيلًا بِتَعْجِيلٍ. And لَا يُبَاعُ غَائِبٌ بِنَاجِزٍ, meaning, A debt to be paid at a future time shall not be sold for ready money. And نَاجِزٌ بِنَاجِزٍ is a proverb, [meaning Ready merchandise with ready money,] like يَدٌ بِيَدٍ, and عَاجِلٌ بِعَاجِلٍ. It is said in a trad., بِيعُوا حَاضِرًا بِنَاجِزٍ [Sell ye present merchandise for ready money]. And a poet ('Abeed Ibn-El-Abras, TA, art. كلأ,) says,
2 [Complete: accomplished.]
3 A promise that has been fulfilled; as also نَجِيزٌ : or that has come to pass, and is accomplished.
4 Present; ready; as also نَجِيزٌ : and ↓ both, promptly, or quickly, done, or given. You say, بِعْتُهُ نَاجِزًا بِنَاجِزٍ [I sold it, or I sold to him,] present, or ready, [merchandise,] for present, or ready, [money,] like يَدًا بِيَدٍ, i. e., تَعْجِيلًا بِتَعْجِيلٍ. And لَا يُبَاعُ غَائِبٌ بِنَاجِزٍ, meaning, A debt to be paid at a future time shall not be sold for ready money. And نَاجِزٌ بِنَاجِزٍ is a proverb, [meaning Ready merchandise with ready money,] like يَدٌ بِيَدٍ, and عَاجِلٌ بِعَاجِلٍ. It is said in a trad., بِيعُوا حَاضِرًا بِنَاجِزٍ [Sell ye present merchandise for ready money]. And a poet ('Abeed Ibn-El-Abras, TA, art. كلأ,) says,
[And when griefs attend thee, know that] they are, some, debts to be payed at future periods, and some, payments in ready money. The saying [of 'Abd-Allah Ibn-'Ámir El-Kurashee, owner of a horse named Esh-Shamoos, (TA, art. شمس,)]وَإِذَا تُبَاشِرُكَ الهُمُو مُ فَإِنَّهَا كَالٍ وَنَاجِزْ
[app. meaning, Quickly as the running of EshShamoos; ready with ready, or prompt with prompt;] is explained by IAar, as meaning, Thou hast given an evil recompense and I have recompensed thee in like manner: or, as he says in one place, this is said when one does a thing and thou dost the like thereof; he not being able to go beyond thee in word or in deed. [Respecting this saying, Freytag says, in his Arab. Prov., i. 305, (where, for نَاجِزًا we find نَاجِزٌ,) that it applies to him who is equal to the execution of the things which he undertakes, as well good as bad: and that جَرَى is to be supplied before جَرْىَ.]جَرْىَ الشَّمُوسِ نَاجِزًا بِنَاجِزِ
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