Mashrabaمشربة
Vowels ■ nominative■ accusative■ genitive

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The Aphorisms

الحكم العطائية

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مِنْ عَلَامَةِ الِاعْتِمَادِ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ نُقْصَانُ الرَّجَاءِ عِنْدَ وُجُودِ الزَّلَلِ

6 roots in this range, in order of appearance. Arabic: Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha (source). English: a short core sense, AI-made from Ibn Fāris.

ع ل م×1

عَلَامَةِ

Ibn Fāris gives one sound root: a mark or trace on a thing by which it is distinguished … ✦ AI

العين واللام والميم أصل صحيح واحد يدل على أثر بالشيء يتميز به عن غيره Ibn Fāris l. 20148

ع م د×1

الِاعْتِمَادِ

العين والميم والدال أصل كبير فروعه كثيرة ترجع إلى معنى وهو الاستقامة في الشىء منتصبا أو ممتدا وكذلك في الرأي وإرادة … Ibn Fāris l. 20503

ع م ل×1

الْعَمَلِ

العين والميم واللام أصل واحد صحيح وهو عام في كل فعل يفعل قال الخليل عمل يعمل عملا فهو عامل واعتمل الرجل إذا عمل بنفسه … Ibn Fāris l. 20603

ن ق ص×1

نُقْصَانُ

Diminution; the opposite of increase, per Ibn Fāris's single-sense chapter. ✦ AI

النون والقاف والصاد كلمة واحدة هي النقص خلاف الزيادة ونقص الشيء ونقصته أنا وهو منقوص والنقيصة العيب Ibn Fāris l. 32437

و ج د×1

وُجُودِ

Ibn Fāris gives a single root sense: coming upon or finding a thing, as in finding a … ✦ AI

الواو والجيم والدال : يدل على أصل واحد وهو الشيء يلفيه ووجدت الضالة وجدانا وحكي بعضهم : وجدت في الغضب وجدانا وأنشد : — … Ibn Fāris l. 33940

ز ل ل×1

الزَّلَلِ

الزاء واللام أصل مطرد منقاس في المضاعف وكذلك في كل زاء بعدها لام في الثلاثي وهذا من عجيب هذا الأصل تقول زل عن مكانه … Ibn Fāris l. 12884

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Among the signs of reliance on works is the lessening of hope when a lapse occurs.

Sources and provenance

  1. Text. The Aphorisms (al-Ḥikam), Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī, d. 709/1309. A working edition, not an authority. The matn as quoted in Ibn ʿAbbād's commentary (Cairo 1319/1901, public domain), transcribed from the page images and read twice · Ibn ʿAbbād's opening glosses (public domain) · AI English, marked. Witnesses: the aphorisms as quoted in Ibn ʿAbbād al-Rundī's Sharḥ ʿalā matn al-Ḥikam (Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʿaliyya), with al-Sharqāwī's commentary in the margin, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-ʿĀmira al-Adabiyya, Muḥarram 1319/May 1901 (public domain), transcribed from the page images; the Būlāq print of the same commentaries (Rajab 1290/1873, whole); the bare matn in Ibn ʿAjība's Īqāẓ al-himam (Cairo, Ḥanafī, n.d.); al-Sharqāwī's quotations in the margin; the OpenITI digital text (Damascus 1986) as a typing aid. How it was established: /read/hikam/about.
  2. Vowels. From the source text where it has them; 10 of the 10 words here carry vowels supplied by AI (in colour mode, underlined with a dashed line). In colour mode, case endings are coloured: nominative, accusative, genitive.
  3. Roots. Roots by automatic morphological analysis (CAMeL Tools) automatic. Arabic senses quoted from Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-lugha, in the OpenITI digital text (GitHub), linked by line. English senses are AI summaries of that entry, marked ✦ AI.
  4. Translation. AI translation (Claude), made for this reader; not a published translation and not reviewed by a scholar.

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