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4 احياهُ احياه احياة أحياه أحيى , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. اـِحْيَاآءٌ, (TA,) said of God, (S, Msb,) He made him alive, to live, or be a living being; quickened, endued with life, vivified, [ revivified, revived, or resuscitated, ] him. (S, * Msb, * K.) Hence, in the Kur [lxxv. last verse], أَلَيْسَ ذٰلِكَ بِقَادِرٍ أَنْ يُحْيِىَ المَوْتَى, (S, TA,) i. e. Is not That Doer of these things (Jel) [ able to quicken the dead? ]. ― -b2- See also 2, in two places. ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) He (God) endued him with the intellectual faculty: as in the saying, in the Kur [vi. 122], أَوَمَنْ كَانَ مَيِّتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ (assumed tropical:) [ And is he who was intellectually dead and whom we have endued with the intellectual faculty...? ]. (Er-Rághib.) ― -b4- See also 3. ― -b5- احيا الأَرْضَ (assumed tropical:) He (God) revived the earth, or land, by the rain, so as to produce in it plants, or herbage. (TA.) And أُحْيِيَتِ الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:) The land was tilled, and made productive. (AHn.) And احيا المَوَاتِ (tropical:) He turned to use the unowned and unused and uncultivated land by walling it round or sowing it or building upon it and the like. (TA.) ― -b6- Also (assumed tropical:) He (a man) found the land to be fruitful, or abundant in herbage, (S, K,) with fresh herbage. (K.) ― -b7- احيا اللَّيْلَ (assumed tropical:) He passed the night in religious service, worship, adoration, or devotion, abstaining from sleep: (TA:) or [simply] he remained awake during the night. (W p. 9.) And احيا لَيْلَتَهُ He passed his night awake. (MA.) -A2- احيت النَّاقَةُ The she-camel had living offspring; (S, K;) her offspring seldom, or never, died. (S.) ― -b2- احيا القَوْمُ The people, or company of men, had their cattle living: (K:) or had their cattle in good condition: (AA, S, K:) or had rain, so that their beasts obtained herbage to such a degree that they became fat: (AZ:) or they (themselves) became in a state of abundance of herbage, or plenty. (S, K. [See also 1.])

Derived headwords

احياهُverb
  1. 1.
أَلَيْسَ ذٰلِكَ بِقَادِرٍ أَنْ يُحْيِىَ المَوْتَى
أَوَمَنْ كَانَ مَيِّتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ
احيا الأَرْضَ
أُحْيِيَتِ الأَرْضُ
احيا المَوَاتِ
احيا اللَّيْلَ
احيا لَيْلَتَهُ
احيت النَّاقَةُ
احيا القَوْمُ