Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَاجِدٌ

Root: وجد

Full Definition

وَاجِدٌ , act. part. n of 1, Finding; or a finder; &c.
2 Rich; possessing competence, or sufficiency; in no need; without wants, or with few wants; solvent; one who finds that wherewith to pay what he owes. Ex. لَىُّ الوَاجِدِ يُحِلُّ عُقُوبَتَهُ The solvent man's putting off the payment of his debt with promises repeated time after time makes his punishment allowable. (L, from a trad. See Mgh art. لوى.) الوَاجِدُ, as an epithet applied to God, He who has no wants.

def.2 هُوَ وَاجِدٌ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ He is angry with his companion.

def.3 أَنَا وَاجِدٌ لِلشَّىْءِ I am able to do the thing.

def.4 هُوَ وَاجِدٌ بِفُلَانَةَ, and عَلَيْهَا, and مُتَوَجِّدٌ , He is in love [or passionately in love] with such a female.
2 وُجُدٌ is mentioned in the Towsheeh as a pl. of وَاجِدٌ; but this is strange.


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