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جبو ند جبى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

8 اِجْتِبَاآءٌ اجتباآء (assumed tropical:) The drawing forth property from the places in which it is known, or presumed, or accustomed, to be. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The collecting in the way of choice, or selection. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- See also 1, last sentence but one. ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) God's particular, or peculiar, distinguishing of men by abundant bounty, from which various blessings result to them without their labour; as happens to prophets and some others. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b5- Also اجتباهُ, (assumed tropical:) He forged it: and he extemporized it. (TA.) Hence, in the Kur [vii. 202], قَالُوا لَوْلَا ا@جْتَبَيْتَهَا (assumed tropical:) They say, Wherefore hast thou not forged it, (Fr, TA,) or produced it, (Th, TA,) or invented it, (Jel,) or put it together by forgery, (Bd,) of thyself? (Fr, Th, Bd, Jel, TA:) or wherefore hast thou not sought it, or demanded it, of God? (Bd.)

Derived headwords

اِجْتِبَاآءٌverb
  1. 1.
قَالُوا لَوْلَا ا@جْتَبَيْتَهَا