جهد

8 اـِجْتَهَدَ see 1, in five places. ― -b2- اِجْتِهَادٌ as a conventional term means A lawyer's exerting the faculties [ of the mind ] to the utmost, for the purpose of forming an opinion in a case of law [ respecting a doubtful and difficult point ]: (KT:) the seeking to form a right opinion: (KL:) [ investigation of the law, or the working out a solution of any difficulty in the law, by means of reason and comparison: and] the referring a case proposed to the judge, [ respecting a doubtful and difficult point, ] from the method of analogy, to the Kur-Án and the Sunneh. (L, TA. *)