عوض

عَوْضُ ذ and عَوْضَ (Az, S, O, Mughnee, K) and عَوْضِ; (Mughnee, K,) the first accord. to Ks (TA) and the Koofees, and the second accord. to the Basrees; (O, TA; [in which latter it is added that the second is the most common; but this I think a mistake; for I have most frequently found the first; and in the Mughnee, عَوْضُ is mentioned first, as in the S and K, and عَوْضَ last;]) indecl., (Mughnee, K,) like قَبْلُ and أَيْنَ and أَمْسِ, (Mughnee,) without tenween; (S;) [but not always, as will be seen below;] an adv. n., (Mughnee, K,) denoting future time, (S, O,) or all future time, (Mughnee, K,) like as قَطُّ denotes past time; (S, O;) meaning Ever; syn. أَبَدًا; (S, * O, K;) but differing from أبَدًا by being appropriated to negative phrases only: (Mughnee, K: *) you say لَا أُفِارِقُكَ عَوْضُ, (K,) or عَوْضُ لَا أُفَارِقُكَ, meaning I will not separate myself from thee, ever; like as you say قَطُّ مَا فَارَقْتُكَ; but you may not say عَوْضُ مَا فَارَقْتُكَ, like as you may not say قَطُّ مَا أُفَارِقُكَ: (S, O:) or it denotes past time also, having the same meaning: for you say, مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَهُ عَوْضُ, (AZ, K,) meaning I have not seen the like of him, or it, ever: (AZ:) so in the two books [the O and the TS] of Sgh: and in like manner a poet says, فَلَمْ أَرَ عَامًا عَوْضُ أَكْثَرَ هَالِكًا [ And I have not seen a year, ever, more destructive ]. (TA.) But it is decl. when prefixed to another noun; as in the saying, لَا أفْعَلُهُ عَوْضَ ↓ العَائِضِينَ (Mughnee, K) I will not do it, ever; (TA;) and ↓ لَا اآتِيكَ عَوْضَ العَائِضِينَ [ I will not come to thee, ever ]; like as one says, دَهْرَ الدَّاهِرِينَ: (S, O:) [for in this case you may not say عَوْضُ.] And one also says افعل ذَاكَ مِنْ ذِى عَوْضٍ, [in which the first word is written in some copies of the S and K اِفْعَلْ, and in others أَفْعَلُ,] like as one says, مِنْ ذِى أُنُفٍ, (S, O, K,) and مِنْ ذِى قَبَلٍ, (S, O,) meaning [ Do thou, or I will do, that ] in what is [ now ] to be begun [ of time; meaning, immediately: see أُنُفٌ]: (S, O, K:) [thus making عوض decl., and using it without a negative, which must always accompany it when it is indecl.] [See also عِوَضٌ.] Or عَوْضُ signifies Time; syn. الدَّهْرُ (K) and الزَّمَانُ; (TA;) which is thus called because, as often as a portion thereof passes, it substitutes for it another portion: (Mughnee, K:) or, as some say, because they assert that it despoils and gives compensation. (Mughnee.) [See an ex. in the Ham p. 271, where it occurs in this sense with tenween, in the printed text, though said in the commentary to be indecl., with fet-h or with damm.] Or it is an oath; (Ibn-El-Kelbee, Mughnee, K,) and is (so in the O and Mughnee, but in the K “ or ”) the name of A certain idol, belonging to Bekr Ibn-Wáïl: (S, Mughnee, O, K:) as in a verse cited in art. مور: (O, Mughnee:) but if so, there is no reason for its being used indeclinably in a verse of El-Aashà cited voce أَسْحَمُ [q. v.]: (Mughnee:) or it is a word used in the manner of an oath; a man saying to his companion, عَوْضُ لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ أَبَدًا [as though meaning Nay, that will not, or shall not, be, ever ]: for if it were a noun signifying time, it would be with tenween; but it is a particle by which is meant an oath, like أَجَلْ and نَعَمْ. (Lth, O.)