وَاحِدٌ
Root: وحد
Full Definition
2 لَسْتُ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ I am not alone, without a parallel, or watch, in this affair: or simply, I am not alone in it. The fem. وَحْدَآءُ is not used.
3 أُحْدَانٌ, the pl. of , is applied by a poet to dogs having no equals or matches.
4 فُلَانٌ لَا وَاحِدَ لَهُ Such a one has no equal, like, parallel, or match.
5 Also, One that has no equal; one unequalled.
6 فُلَانٌ وَاحِدُ دَهْرِهِ Such a person is the unequalled one of his age. And in like manner, فُلَانٌ أَوْحَدُ أَهْلِ زَمَانِهِ Such a person is the unequalled one of the people of his time. The pl. of [as well as of واحد in the same sense] is أُحْدَانٌ, (originally وُحْدَانٌ, S) like as سُودَانٌ is pl. أَسْوَدُ.
7 وَاحِدُ أُمِّهِ [An unequalled son of his mother], is an indeterminate expression, like نَسِيجُ وَحْدِهِ, q. v.
8 Also, A man pre-eminent in knowledge or science, or in valour in war, (L, K [in the CK, for بَأْس is put ناس]) or in other qualities; as though having no equal, and thus being alone: pl. وُحْدَانٌ and أُحْدانٌ.
9 الوَاحِدُ and الأَحَدُ and and , epithets applied to God, The One, the Sole; He whose attribute is unity: or the first signifies the One in essence, who has no like nor equal; and the second, the One in attributes, beside whom there is no other: or the first, the One who is not susceptible of division into parts or portions, nor of duplication, and who has no equal nor like: or the One who has ever been alone, without companion: and there is no being but God to whom the first and second of these epithets are applicable together, or to whom the second is applicable alone. See also أَحَدٌ, in art. أحد.
10 الإِنْسَانُ وَالفَرَسُ وَاحِدٌ فِى الجِنْسِ The human being and the horse are one in genus. And زَيْد وَعَمرْوٌ وَاحِدٌ فِى النَّوْعِ Zeyd and 'Amr are one in species.
11 وَاحِدٌ Singular, as opposed to plural: pl. وُحْدَانٌ.
12 أَصْحَابِى وَأَصْحَابُكَ وَاحِدٌ [Thy companions and my companions are one and the same]. And الجُلُوسُ وَالقُعُود وَاحِدٌ [الجلوس and القعود are one and the same].
13 See وَحِيدٌ.
14 حَادِىَ عَشَرَ, masc., and حَادِيَةَ عَشْرَةَ, fem., Eleventh. In this case, [and in similar instances, as حَادِى وَعِشْرُونَ Twentyfirst, &c.,] حادى and حادية are formed by transposition from وَاحِدٌ and وَاحِدَةٌ, by putting the first radical letter after the second. [When without the article, it is indecl.: but when rendered determinate by the article, the first word is decl.] You say, هُوَ حَادِىَ عَشَرَهُمْ [He is the eleventh of them]: and اليَوْمُ الحَادِى عَشَرَ [The eleventh day]: and اللَّيْلَةُ الحَادِيَةُ عَشْرَةَ [The eleventh night]. [The rules respecting حَادِىَ عَشَرَ and its fem. are the same as those respecting ثَالِثَ عَشَرَ and its fem., explained in art. ثلث, q. v.]
15 بِوَاحِدَةٍ signifies i. q. فَقَطْ: and is often used in the sense of البَتَّةَ. (MF, voce ذُرُّوحٌ.)
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