Mashrabaمشربة

أذنTwo converging senses per Ibn Fāris: the physical ear and knowledge — the second arising … (root dhn)

الهمزة والذال والنون أصلان متقاربان في المعنى متباعدان في اللفظ أحدهما أذن كل ذي أذن والآخر العلم وعنهما يتفرع الباب …

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

أذن
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The words of أ ذ ن that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

31 words5 verbs7 verbal nouns4 participles2 places and instruments2 intensives and elatives7 other nouns2 plurals2 relatives and abstracts

  • إِذْنpermission
  • أَذِنَhe gave ear or listened to it, or him
  • أُذُنear
  • اسْتَْذَنَhe asked, or demanded, permission, or leave, to enter, or to come into the …
  • ءَاذَانplural of ear
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Verbs5أَذِنَ · اسْتَْذَنَ · أَذَّنَ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

Form I vowels: فَعِلَ يَفْعَلُ (i – a; the imperfect from Lane's “aor.”)

Verbal nouns7إِذْن · أَذَان · أَذَن

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

Participles4مُؤَذِّن · مُؤْذَن · مُؤْذِن

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

  • مُؤَذِّنone who notifies, makes known, or proclaims, by a chant, the time of prayerLaneactive, Form IIQurʾān ×2library ×6LaneIbn Fāris
  • مُؤْذَنpassive, Form IVLaneIbn Fāris
  • مُؤْذِنactive, Form IVLaneIbn Fāris
  • مَأْذُونpassive, Form ILane
Place, time and instrument2مَأْذَنَة · مِئْذَنَة

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَأْذَنَةnoun of place (with -a)Lane
  • مِئْذَنَةthe place generally a turret of a mosque upon which the time of prayer is …Lanenoun of instrumentLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative2أَذِين · أَذُون

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • أَذِينquality (faʿīl)LaneIbn Fāris
  • أَذُونanimal having an earLaneintensive (faʿūl)Lane
Other nouns7أُذُن · آذَن · آذِن

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

Plurals2ءَاذَان · آذَان

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • ءَاذَانplural of earfrom the singularbroken plural of أُذُنQurʾān ×12
  • آذَانplural of earfrom the singularbroken plural of أُذُنlibrary ×2LaneIbn Fāris
Relative and abstract2أُذَانِيّ · أُذَيْنِيّ

-iyy relates a thing to its source; -iyya makes an abstract noun.grammar →

  • أُذَانِيّlargeearedLanerelative adjective (-iyy)Lane
  • أُذَيْنِيّrelative adjective (-iyy)Lane
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مَفْعَلَةأ ذ نمَأْذَنَة
  • Attested: مَأْذَنَة, noun of place (with -a) (Lane)

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain

This root has a weak or doubled letter, so real words change shape (qāla → qāʾil, not qāwil); the machine pours the letters in as they are, and matches attested words by their regular pattern.

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  • al-Khalīl · 170It is said of a man: 'he is udhun (أذن)';

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    It is said of a man: 'he is udhun (أذن)'; of a woman: 'she is udhun'; and likewise of a people — meaning he listens to everyone. Al-udhun [also] means the handle (ʿurwa) of a mug and the like; al-akwāb (الأكواب) are mugs without a handle (udhun). Al-udhn [also] means listening to something: 'in a hearing the old man listens (yaʾdhanu) to it... and speech like strained honey.' A man [called] udhuna (أذنة) listens to everything, as one [called] umana (أمنة) trusts every person. 'I adhintu (أذنت) with this thing' means 'I knew [it]'; 'ādhananī' means 'he informed me'; 'he did it bi-idhnī' means 'with my knowledge,' close in meaning to 'by my order' — likewise the one who admits [petitioners] (yaʾdhanu) to enter upon the governor or others. Al-adhān is a noun for al-taʾdhīn, just as al-ʿadhāb is a noun for al-taʿdhīb: 'until the call (al-adhīn) was proclaimed' — transformed to the pattern faʿīl. Al-taʾadhdhun is from 'taʾadhdhantu (تأذنت) I will surely do such-and-such,' meaning the affirmation of the act, i.e. 'I will do it without fail.' It is said: 'Did you hear the call (al-adhān) from the minaret (al-miʾdhana)?' 'Taʾadhdhantu' [also] means 'I proceeded/took precedence,' like a commander who proclaims (yataʾadhdhanu) before [administering] punishment; from this is [the phrase]: 'And when your Lord declared (taʾadhdhana)...'

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    يقال للرجل: هو أذن، وللمرأة: هي أذن، وللقوم كذلك، أي يسمع من كل أحد. والأذن العروة أي عروة الكوز ونحوه، والأكواب: كيزان لا أذن لها. والأذن: الاستماع للشيء، قال: في سماع يأذن الشيخ له ... وحديث مثل ما ذي مشار «49» ورجل أذنة: يستمع لكل شيء، وأمنة يأمن بكل إنسان. وأذنت بهذا الشيء أي علمت، وآذنني: أعلمني، وفعله بإذني، أي بعلمي، وهو في معنى بأمري، وكذلك الذي يأذن بالدخول على الوالي وغيره. والأذان اسم للتأذين، كما أن العذاب اسم للتعذيب، قال: حتى إذا نودي بالأذين «50» حوله إلى فعيل. والتأذن من قولك: تأذنت لأفعلن كذا، يراد به إيجاب الفعل في ذلك، أي سأفعل لا محالة. ويقال: هل سمعت الأذان من المئذنة. وتأذنت: تقدمت كالأمير يتأذن قبل العقوبة، ومنه: وإذ تأذن ربك «51» .

  • al-Jawharī · 393'Adhina lahu (أذن له)' fī l-shayʾ, [verbal noun] idhnan, [means 'he gave him permission'].

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    'Adhina lahu (أذن له)' fī l-shayʾ, [verbal noun] idhnan, [means 'he gave him permission']. One says: 'i'dhan lī ʿalā al-amīr' [grant me leave to enter upon the commander]. The poet's line: 'I said to the gatekeeper at her house: / Let [me] in (tīdhan), for I am her father-in-law's kin and her neighbor.' Abū Jaʿfar said: he meant 'li-taʾdhan'; it is permissible in poetry to drop the lām and vowel the tāʾ with kasra, following the dialect that says 'anta tiʿlam' [for taʿlam]; and it is [similarly] recited 'fa-bi-dhālika fal-tafraḥū.' 'Adhina' [also] means 'he knew,' as in His saying, Most High: 'Then be informed (fa-adhanū) of a war from God and His Messenger' [Quran 2:279]. 'Adhina lahu adhanan' means 'he listened.' Qaʿnab ibn Umm Ṣāḥib said: 'If they hear something suspicious of me, they fly with it in joy, / but what they hear of good they bury.' 'Deaf, when good is spoken of me, / but if evil is mentioned, they listen eagerly (adhinū).' And [the hadith]: 'God has not listened to anything as He listens to one who chants the Qurʾān.' Al-adhān means informing (al-iʿlām); the call to prayer (adhān al-ṣalāh) is well known; al-adhīn is the same. One says 'adhdhana adhānan.' Al-miʾdhana means the minaret (al-manāra). Al-adhīn also means 'guarantor' (al-kafīl). Imruʾ al-Qays said: 'And I am guarantor (adhīn), if I return as a king, / with a journey so swift the herald's messenger seems to bend from it.' Some said al-adhīn is the place to which the call comes from every direction, citing: 'Pure of pebbles it was, a place-of-calling, / and there was in it no suspicion of what might be feared.' Al-udhn is pronounced both lightly and fully [udhn/udhun], and is feminine; its diminutive is udhayna (أذينة). If one named a man with it and made its diminutive, one would say 'Udhayn' without feminizing, since the feminine marking is lost by transfer to a masculine [referent]. As for their saying 'Udhayna' as a proper name, it was named already in diminutive form; the plural [of udhun] is ādhān (آذان). 'Adhantuhu (أذنته)' means 'I struck his ear.' A man [called] udhun (أذن), when he listens to and accepts what everyone says — singular and plural are alike in this form. A man [called] udhānī (أذاني) has large ears; a ewe [called] adhnāʾ and a ram ādhan [both large-eared]. 'Adhdhantu (أذنت) the sandal,' taʾdhīnan, means 'I made a strap for it.' 'Adhdhantu the boy' means 'I twisted his ear.' 'Ādhantuka (آذنتك) with the thing' means 'I informed you of it.' Al-ādhin means the chamberlain (al-ḥājib): 'Exchange your usher (ādhin) for the approved one...' 'Ādhana' and 'taʾadhdhana' are synonymous, as 'ayqana' and 'tayaqqana.' One says: 'The commander taʾadhdhana (تأذن) in speech,' meaning he proclaimed a warning and prohibition among them, i.e. came forward and gave notice. His saying, Most High: 'And when your Lord declared (taʾadhdhana)' means 'made known.' Idhan (إذن) is a particle of response: placed before a future-tense verb it puts it in the accusative and nothing else — if someone says 'Tonight I will visit you,' you reply 'idhan ukrimuka' [then I will honor you]; delayed, it has no effect: 'ukrimuka idhan.' If the following verb denotes a present state, it has no governing effect. [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    أذن له في الشئ إذنا. يقال: ائذن لي على الامير. وقول الشاعر: قلت لبواب لديه دارها تيذن فإنى حمؤها وجارها قال أبو جعفر: أراد لتأذن. وجائز في الشعر حذف اللام وكسر التاء، على لغة من يقول أنت تعلم. وقرئ: (فبذلك فلتفرحوا) . وأذن، بمعنى علم. ومنه قوله تعالى: (فأذنوا بحرب من الله ورسوله) . وأذن له أذنا: استمع. قال قعنب بن أم صاحب: إن يسمعوا ريبة طاروا بها فرحا عني وما سمعوا من صالح دفنوا صم إذا سمعوا خيرا ذكرت به وإن ذكرت بشر عندهم أذنوا و " ما أذن الله لشئ كأذنه لمن يتغنى بالقرآن (1) ". والاذان: الإعلام. وأذان الصلاة معروف. والأذين مثله. وقد أذن أذانا. والمئذنة: المنارة. والاذين: الكفيل. وقال امرؤ القيس: وإني أذين إن رجعت مملكا بسير ترى منه الفرانق أزورا (2) وقال قوم: الأذين: المكان يأتيه الأذان من كل ناحية. وأنشدوا: طهور الحصى كانت أذينا ولم تكن بها ريبة مما يخاف تريب والأذن تخفف وتثقل، وهي مؤنثة، وتصغيرها أذينة. ولو سميت بها رجلا ثم صغرته قلت أذين فلم تؤنث، لزوال التأنيث عنه بالنقل إلى المذكر. فأما قولهم أذينة في الاسم العلم فإنما سمى به مصغرا، والجمع آذان. وتقول: أذنته، إذا ضربت أذنه. ورجل أذن، إذا كان يسمع مقال كل أحد ويقبله، يستوى فيه الواحد والجمع. ورجل أذاني: عظيم الأذنين. ونعجة أذناء وكبش آذن. وأذنت النعل وغيرها تأذينا، إذا جعلت لها أذنا. وأذنت الصبي: عركت أذنه. وآذنتك بالشئ أعلمتكه. والآذن: الحاجب. وقال: تبدل بآذنك المرتضى * وقد آذن وتأذن بمعنى، كما يقال أيقن وتيقن. وتقول: تأذن الأمير في الكلام، أي نادى فيهم في التهدد والنهى، أي تقدم وأعلم. وقوله تعالى: (وإذ تأذن ربك) ، أي أعلم. وإذن: حرف مكافأة وجواب، إن قدمتها على الفعل المستقبل نصبته بها لا غير. إذا قال لك قائل: الليلة أزورك، قلت: إذن أكرمك. وإن أخرتها ألغيتها فقلت: أكرمك إذن. فإن كان الفعل الذى بعدها فعل الحال لم تعمل، لان الحال لا تعمل فيها العوام الناصبة. وإذا وقفت على إذن قلت: إذا، كما تقول زيدا. وإن وسطتها وجعلت الفعل بعدها معتمدا على ما قبلها ألغيت أيضا كقولك: أنا إذن أكرمك لانها في عوامل الافعال مشبهة بالظن في عوامل الاسماء. وإن أدخلت عليها حرف عطف كالواو والفاء، فأنت بالخيار، وإن شئت ألغيت وإن شئت أعملت.

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Hamza, dhāl, and nūn (الهمزة والذال والنون) form two roots that are close in meaning but distant in pronunciation: one is 'udhun (أذن) 'ear' — [the ear] of every creature possessing an ear — and the other is 'ilm (علم) '

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    Hamza, dhāl, and nūn (الهمزة والذال والنون) form two roots that are close in meaning but distant in pronunciation: one is 'udhun (أذن) 'ear' — [the ear] of every creature possessing an ear — and the other is 'ilm (علم) 'knowledge.' The whole chapter branches from these two. As for their closeness [in meaning]: it is by means of the ear that knowledge of everything heard occurs. As for the branching of the chapter: al-udhun (الأذن) 'the ear' is well known and feminine. The one possessing [notable] ears is called ādhan (آذن), and the female possessing [such] ears is called adhnāʾ (أذناء). Salama, quoting al-Farrāʾ, recited: 'Like the ostrich she was, while safe, / long-eared (adhnāʾ), until doom and madness dazzled her' — he meant madness (al-junūn) — 'She came to buy a horn or exchange it, / while time holds both profit and loss in trading.' 'It was said: your ears are wronged — then they were severed / down to the ear-hole, so [she has] neither horn nor ear.' A man who listens to everyone is called udhun (أذن) 'an ear.' God Most High said: 'And among them are those who hurt the Prophet and say, He is an ear (udhun)' [Quran 9:61]. Al-udhun is also [used for] the handle (ʿurwa) of a jug, this being a metaphorical use. Al-udhn (الأذن) also means 'listening' (al-istimāʿ); it is said [it is so called] because it occurs by means of the ear. Among the figurative and metaphorical usages is the hadith: 'God Most High has not listened (adhina) to anything as He listens to a prophet chanting the Qurʾān.' ʿAdī ibn Zayd said: 'O heart, be diverted by amusement, / for my concern is in hearing and listening (adhun).' He also said: 'And a hearing by the ear of the old man for it, / and speech like strained honey.' The other root [meaning] is knowledge and informing. The Arabs say 'adhintu (أذنت) bi-hādhā al-amr,' meaning 'I knew [it].' 'Ādhananī fulān' means 'so-and-so informed me'; the verbal noun is al-adhn (الأذن) and al-īdhān (الإيذان). 'He did it bi-idhnī (بإذني)' means 'with my knowledge,' though it may also mean 'with my order,' which is close to that. Al-Khalīl said: from this is [the phrase] 'he gave me permission (adhina lī) in such-and-such.' From this chapter is al-adhān (الأذان), a noun for al-taʾdhīn (التأذين) [the call], just as al-ʿadhāb (العذاب) is a noun for al-taʿdhīb (التعذيب). Sometimes it is changed to the pattern faʿīl, as adhīn (أذين): 'Until, when the call (al-adhīn) was proclaimed...' The correct view is that al-adhīn is the same as al-adhān, on the evidence already mentioned. Al-adhīn also means the place to which the call reaches from every direction: 'Pure of pebbles it was, a place-of-the-call, / and there was in it no suspicion of what might be feared.' Al-adhīn also means 'the caller to prayer' (al-muʾadhdhin); the rajaz poet said: 'So his fierce roar burst forth upon it — away! — / before the caller of the mud-town called out' — he meant the muʾadhdhin of houses built of clay, mud-brick, and stone. As for His saying, Most High: 'And when your Lord declared (taʾadhdhana): if you are grateful, I will surely increase you' [Quran 14:7], al-Khalīl said: al-taʾadhdhun is from your saying 'I will surely do such-and-such,' meaning the affirmation of the act, i.e. 'I will do it without fail.' This is one view; clearer is al-Farrāʾ's: 'taʾadhdhana rabbukum' means 'your Lord made known.' Sometimes the Arabs use the tafaʿʿala form in the sense of afʿala; similarly 'awʿadanī' and 'tawaʿʿadanī' [both 'he threatened me'] — this is common. 'The man ādhana (آذن) his chamberlain' [made him gatekeeper] is also from this chapter.

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    الهمزة والذال والنون أصلان متقاربان في المعنى متباعدان في اللفظ أحدهما أذن كل ذي أذن والآخر العلم وعنهما يتفرع الباب كله فأما التقارب فبالأذن يقع علم كل مسموع وأما تفرع الباب فالأذن معروفة مؤنثة ويقال لذي الأذن آذن ولذات الأذن أذناء أنشد سلمة عن الفراء : — مثل النعامة كانت وهي سالمة … أذناء حتى زهاها الحين والجنن … أراد الجنون : — جاءت لتشري قرنا أو تعوضه … والدهر فيه رباح البيع والغبن … فقيل أذناك ظلم ثمت اصطلمت … إلى الصماخ فلا قرن ولا أذن … ويقال للرجل السامع من كل أحد أذن قال الله تعالى ﴿ ومنهم الذين يؤذون النبي ويقولون هو أذن ﴾ والأذن عروة الكوز وهذا مستعار والأذن الاستماع وقيل أذن لأنه بالأذن يكون ومما جاء مجازا واستعارة الحديث ( ما أذن الله تعالى لشيء كأذنه لنبي يتغنى بالقرآن ) وقال عدي بن زيد : — أيها القلب تعلل بددن … إن همي في سماع وأذن … وقال أيضا : — وسماع بأذن الشيخ له … وحديث مثل ماذي مشار … والأصل الآخر العلم والإعلام تقول العرب قد أذنت بهذا الأمر أي علمت وآذنني فلان أعلمني والمصدر الأذن والإيذان وفعله بإذني أي بعلمي ويجوز بأمري وهو قريب من ذلك قال الخليل ومن ذلك أذن لي في كذا ومن الباب الأذان وهو اسم التأذين كما أن العذاب اسم التعذيب وربما حولوه إلى فعيل فقالوا أذين قال : — حتى إذا نودي بالأذين … والوجه في هذا أن الأذين الأذان وحجته ما قد ذكرناه والأذين أيضا المكان يأتيه الأذان من كل ناحية وقال : — طهور الحصى كانت أذينا ولم تكن … بها ريبة مما يخاف تريب … والأذين أيضا المؤذن قال الراجز : — فانكشحت له عليها زمجره … سحقا وما نادى أذين المدره … أراد مؤذن البيوت التي تبنى بالطين واللبن والحجارة فأما قوله تعالى : ﴿ وإذ تأذن ربكم لئن شكرتم لأزيدنكم ﴾ فقال الخليل التأذن من قولك لأفعلن كذا تريد به إيجاب الفعل أي سأفعله لا محالة وهذا قول وأوضح منه قول الفراء تأذن ربكم أعلم ربكم وربما قالت العرب في معنى أفعلت تفعلت ومثله أوعدني وتوعدني وهو كثير وآذن الرجل حاجبه وهو من الباب

  • al-Rāghib · 502Al-udhun: the organ [the ear];

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    Al-udhun: the organ [the ear]; by its ring-shape the 'ear' (handle) of a cooking-pot and the like is likened to it. It is used metaphorically for one who listens much and heeds what he hears. He, Most High, said: 'and they say, He is an ear (udhun). Say: an ear of good for you' [Quran 9:61] — i.e. his listening is to what returns good for you. His saying, Most High: 'and in their ears is deafness' [Quran 6:25] alludes to their ignorance, not to a lack of [physical] hearing. 'Adhina' means 'he listened,' as in: 'and has listened to its Lord and was bound to' [Quran 84:2]; this is used for knowledge attained through hearing, as in: 'then be informed of a war from God and His Messenger' [Quran 2:279]. Al-udhn and al-adhān [denote] what is heard, and this expresses knowledge, since hearing is the source of much of our knowledge. God Most High said: 'Grant me leave (i'dhan lī) and do not put me to trial' [Quran 9:49]; and: 'And when your Lord declared (taʾadhdhana)' [Quran 14:7]. 'Adhdhantuhu bi-kadhā' and 'ādhantuhu' are synonymous. Al-muʾadhdhin [is] anyone who announces something by calling out. He, Most High, said: 'then a caller called out: O caravan!' [Quran 12:70]; 'and a caller called out between them' [Quran 7:44]; 'and proclaim to the people the Ḥajj' [Quran 22:27]. [entry continues]

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    الأذن: الجارحة، وشبه به من حيث الحلقة أذن القدر وغيرها، ويستعار لمن كثر استماعه وقوله لما يسمع، قال تعالى: ويقولون: هو أذن قل: أذن خير لكم [التوبة/ 61] أي: استماعه لما يعود بخير لكم، وقوله تعالى: وفي آذانهم وقرا [الأنعام/ 25] إشارة إلى جهلهم لا إلى عدم سمعهم. وأذن: استمع، نحو قوله: وأذنت لربها وحقت [الانشقاق/ 2] ، ويستعمل ذلك في العلم الذي يتوصل إليه بالسماع، نحو قوله: فأذنوا بحرب من الله ورسوله [البقرة/ 279] . والأذن والأذان لما يسمع، ويعبر بذلك عن العلم، إذ هو مبدأ كثير من العلم فينا، قال الله تعالى: ائذن لي ولا تفتني [التوبة/ 49] ، وقال: وإذ تأذن ربكم [إبراهيم/ 7] . وأذنته بكذا وآذنته بمعنى. والمؤذن: كل من يعلم بشيء نداء، قال تعالى: ثم أذن مؤذن أيتها العير [يوسف/ 70] ، فأذن مؤذن بينهم [الأعراف/ 44] ، وأذن في الناس بالحج [الحج/ 27] . وال

  • Lisān · 711'Adhina bi-l-shayʾ (أذن بالشيء)' — idhnan, adhanan, adhānatan — means 'he knew.' In the noble revelation: 'then be informed (fa-adhanū) of a war from God and His Messenger' — i.e.

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    'Adhina bi-l-shayʾ (أذن بالشيء)' — idhnan, adhanan, adhānatan — means 'he knew.' In the noble revelation: 'then be informed (fa-adhanū) of a war from God and His Messenger' — i.e. 'be aware.' 'Ādhanahu al-amr' and 'ādhanahu bihi' mean 'he informed him.' It has been recited 'fa-ādhinū (فآذنوا) bi-ḥarb min Allāh' [variant], meaning: inform everyone who has not abandoned usury that it is war from God and His Messenger. One says: 'I have ādhantuhu (آذنته) with such-and-such,' ūdhinuhu, īdhānan, and idhnan, when informing him; whoever recites 'fa-adhinū' [without alif] means 'so listen silently.' One says: 'adhintu (أذنت) li-fulān' in such-and-such matter, ādhanu lahu, idhnan (kasra on hamza, sukūn on dhāl); and 'istaʾdhantu fulānan (استأذنت)' istiʾdhānan [I sought his permission]. 'Adhdhantu' means 'I informed repeatedly about something.' Al-adhān means 'informing.' 'Ādhantuka bi-l-shayʾ' means 'I informed you of it'; 'ādhantuhu' means 'I informed him.' God, Mighty and Majestic, said: 'then say: I have informed you all equally' [Quran 21:109]; the poet said: 'Asmāʾ informed us (ādhanatnā) of her departure...' 'Adhina bihi (أذن به)' idhnan means 'he knew of it.' Abū ʿUbayd related from al-Aṣmaʿī: 'Be on his idhn (إذنه)' meaning 'aware of it.' One says: 'so-and-so adhina yaʾdhanu bihi idhnan' when he knew [it]. His saying, Mighty and Majestic: 'and a proclamation (adhān) from God and His Messenger to the people' [Quran 9:3] means 'an announcement.' Al-adhān is a noun standing for al-īdhān, the true verbal noun. His saying: 'And when your Lord declared (taʾadhdhana): if you are grateful I will surely increase you' means 'and when your Lord made known.' His saying: 'and they would not harm anyone with it except by God's permission (bi-idhn Allāh)' means 'by God's knowledge' — al-idhn here can only be from God, since God, exalted and sanctified, does not command indecency such as sorcery and the like. One says: 'I did such-and-such bi-idhnihi (بإذنه)' meaning 'with his knowledge,' or it may mean 'by his order.' Some said al-adhīn is the place to which the call reaches from every direction, citing: 'Pure of pebbles it was, a place-of-calling, / and there was in it no suspicion of what might be feared.' Ibn Barrī said: al-adhīn in this verse means 'the caller' (al-muʾadhdhin), like ʿaqīd meaning muʿqad; he said Abū al-Jarrāḥ cited it as evidence for al-adhīn meaning al-adhān. Ibn Sīda said: and the verse of Imruʾ al-Qays: 'And I am guarantor (adhīn), if I return as a king, / with a journey in which the herald's messenger is seen bending [hastening]' — adhīn here means 'informer' (muʾdhin), as they said alīm and wajīʿ for muʾlim and mūjiʿ. Al-adhīn also means the guarantor (al-kafīl); Abū ʿUbayda transmitted this verse and said adhīn means zaʿīm [chief/guarantor]. 'He did it bi-idhnī and udhnī' means 'with my knowledge.' 'Adhina lahu fī l-shayʾ idhnan' means 'he permitted it to him.' 'Istaʾdhanahu' means 'he asked him for permission.' 'Adhina lahu ʿalayhi' means 'he obtained permission for him from him [to enter].' One says: 'i'dhan lī ʿalā al-amīr' [grant me leave to enter upon the commander]. Al-Aghar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith said: 'And when the commander is stingy with his permission, / over [obtaining] permission from myself, if I wish, I am capable.' And the poet's saying: 'I said to... [entry continues]

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    أذن بالشيء إذنا وأذنا وأذانة: علم. وفي التنزيل العزيز: فأذنوا بحرب من الله ورسوله ؛ أي كونوا على علم. وآذنه الأمر وآذنه به: أعلمه، وقد قرئ: فآذنوا بحرب من الله ؛ معناه أي أعلموا كل من لم يترك الربا بأنه حرب من الله ورسوله. ويقال: قد آذنته بكذا وكذا، أوذنه إيذانا وإذنا إذا أعلمته، ومن قرأ فأذنوا أي فانصتوا. ويقال: أذنت لفلان في أمر كذا وكذا آذن له إذنا، بكسر الهمزة وجزم الذال، واستأذنت فلانا استئذانا. وأذنت: أكثرت الإعلام بالشيء. والأذان: الإعلام. وآذنتك بالشيء: أعلمتكه. وآذنته: أعلمته. قال الله عز وجل: فقل آذنتكم على سواء ؛ قال الشاعر: آذنتنا ببينها أسماء وأذن به إذنا: علم به. وحكى أبو عبيد عن الأصمعي: كونوا على إذنه أي على علم به. ويقال: أذن فلان يأذن به إذنا إذا علم. وقوله عز وجل: وأذان من الله ورسوله إلى الناس ؛ أي إعلام. والأذان: اسم يقوم مقام الإيذان، وهو المصدر الحقيقي. وقوله عز وجل: وإذ تأذن ربكم لئن شكرتم لأزيدنكم ؛ معناه وإذ علم ربكم، وقوله عز وجل: وما هم بضارين به من أحد إلا بإذن الله ؛ معناه بعلم الله، والإذن هاهنا لا يكون إلا من الله، لأن الله تعالى وتقدس لا يأمر بالفحشاء من السحر وما شاكله. ويقال: فعلت كذا وكذا بإذنه أي فعلت بعلمه، ويكون بإذنه بأمره. وقال قوم: الأذين المكان يأتيه الأذان من كل ناحية؛ وأنشدوا: طهور الحصى كانت أذينا، ولم تكن ... بها ريبة، مما يخاف، تريب قال ابن بري: الأذين في البيت بمعنى المؤذن، مثل عقيد بمعنى معقد، قال: وأنشده أبو الجراح شاهدا على الأذين بمعنى الأذان؛ قال ابن سيده: وبيت امرئ القيس: وإني أذين، إن رجعت مملكا، ... بسير ترى فيه الفرانق أزورا «1» . أذين فيه: بمعنى مؤذن، كما قالوا أليم ووجيع بمعنى مؤلم وموجع. والأذين: الكفيل. وروى أبو عبيدة بيت امرئ القيس هذا وقال: أذين أي زعيم. وفعله بإذني وأذني أي بعلمي. وأذن له في الشيء إذنا: أباحه له. واستأذنه: طلب منه الإذن. وأذن له عليه: أخذ له منه الإذن. يقال: ائذن لي على الأمير؛ وقال الأغر بن عبد الله بن الحرث: وإني إذا ضن الأمير بإذنه ... على الإذن من نفسي، إذا شئت، قادر وقول الشاعر: قلت لبواب لديه دارها ... تيذن، فإني حمؤها وجارها . قال أبو جعفر: أراد لتأذن، وجائز في الشعر حذف اللام وكسر التاء على لغة من يقول أنت تعلم، وقرئ: فبذلك فلتفرحوا. والآذن: الحاجب؛ وقال: تبدل بآذنك المرتضى وأذن له أذنا: استمع؛ قال قعنب بن أم صاحب: إن يسمعوا ريبة طاروا بها فرحا ... مني، وما سمعوا من صالح دفنوا صم إذا سمعوا خيرا ذكرت به، ... وإن ذكرت بشر عندهم أذنوا قال ابن سيده: وأذن إليه أذنا استمع. وفي الحديث: ما أذن الله لشيء كأذنه لنبي يتغنى بالقرآن ؛ قال أبو عبيد: يعني ما استمع الله لشيء كاستماعه لنبي يتغنى بالقرآن أي يتلوه يجهر به. يقال: أذنت للشيء آذن له أذنا إذا استمعت له؛ قال عدي: أيها القلب تعلل بددن، ... إن همي في سماع وأذن وقوله عز وجل: وأذنت لربها وحقت* ؛ أي استمعت. وأذن إليه أذنا: استمع إليه معجبا؛ وأنشد ابن بري لعمرو بن الأهيم: فلما أن تسايرنا قليلا، ... أذن إلى الحديث، فهن صور وقال عدي: في سماع يأذن الشيخ له، ... وحديث مثل ماذي مشار وآذنني الشيء: أعجبني فاستمعت له؛ أنشد ابن الأعرابي: فلا وأبيك خير منك، إني ... ليؤذنني التحمحم والصهيل وأذن للهو: استمع ومال. والأذن والأذن، يخفف ويثقل: من الحواس أنثى، والذي حكاه سيبويه أذن، بالضم، والجمع آذان لا يكسر على غير ذلك، وتصغيرها أذينة، ولو سميت بها رجلا ثم صغرته قلت أذين، فلم تؤنث لزوال التأنيث عنه بالنقل إلى المذكر، فأما قولهم أذينة في الاسم العلم فإنما سمي به مصغرا. ورجل أذن وأذن: مستمع لما يقال له قابل له؛ وصفو به كما قال: مئبرة العرقوب أشفى المرفق فوصف به لأن في مئبرة وأشفى معنى الحدة. قال أبو علي: قال أبو زيد رجل أذن ورجال أذن، فأذن للواحد والجمع في ذلك سواء إذا كان يسمع مقال كل أحد. قال ابن بري: ويقال رجل أذن وامرأة أذن، ولا يثنى ولا يجمع، قال: وإنما سموه باسم العضو تهويلا وتشنيعا كما قالوا للمرأة: ما أنت إلا بطين. وفي التنزيل العزيز: ويقولون هو أذن قل أذن خير لكم ؛ أكثر القراء يقرؤون قل أذن خير لكم ، ومعناه وتفسيره أن في المنافقين من كان يعيب النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، ويقول: إن بلغه عني شيء حلفت له وقبل مني لأنه أذن، فأعلمه الله تعالى أنه أذن خير لا أذن شر. وقوله تعالى: أذن خير لكم ، أي مستمع خير لكم، ثم بين ممن يقبل فقال تعالى: يؤمن بالله ويؤمن للمؤمنين؛ أي يسمع ما أنزل الله عليه فيصدق به ويصدق المؤمنين فيما يخبرونه به. وقوله في حديث زيد بن أرقم: هذا الذي أوفى الله بأذنه أي أظهر صدقه في إخباره عما سمعت أذنه. ورجل أذاني وآذن: عظيم الأذنين طويلهما، وكذلك هو من الإبل والغنم، ونعجة أذناء وكبش آذن. وفي حديث أنس: …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    أَذِنَ لَهْ

    1. أَذِنَ لَهْ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and إِلَيْهِ, (M, K,) aor. اَذَنَ , (T, Msb, K,) inf. n. أَذَنٌ, (T, S, Msb, K,) He [gave ear or] listened to it, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) or him: (T, S, M, K: *) or it signifies, (K,) or signifies also, (M,) he listened to it, or him, pleased, or being pleased. (M, K.) It is said in a trad., (T,) مَا أَذِنَ ٱللّٰهِ لِشَىْءٍ لِنَبِىٍّ يَتَغَنَّى بالقُرآنِ (T, S) God hath not listened to anything [in a manner] like his listening [to a prophet chanting the Kur-án]. (T.) And in the Kur [lxxxiv. 2 and 5], وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّها And shall listen to its Lord, (M, Bd, Jel,) and obey; (Jel;) i. e., shall submit to the influence of his power as one listens to the commander and submits to him. (Bd.) And you say, أَذِنَ لِلَّهْوِ He listened and inclined to sport, or play. (M.) [Hence, perhaps,] أَذِنَ لِرَائِحَةِ الطَّعَامِ (assumed tropical:) He desired eagerly, or longed for, the food, [perceiving its odour,] (ISh, K,) and inclined to it. (ISh, TA.) [Hence also, app.,] أَذِنَ لَهُ فِى الشَّىء, (S, M, K,) or فِى أَمْرِ كَذَا, (T,) or فِى كَذَا, (Msb,) aor. اَذَنَ , (T, K,) inf. n. إِذْنٌ, (T, S, M, K,) or this is a simple subst., (Msb,) and أَذِينٌ, (K,) [as though originally signifying He gave ear to him in respect of such a thing; and then] he permitted him, allowed him, or gave him permission or leave, to do the thing, or such a thing. (M, Msb, K.) [See also إِذْنٌ, below.] You say, أَذِنْتُ لِلْعَبْدِ فَي التِّجَارَةِ [I gave permission, or leave, to the slave to traffic]. (Msb.) أَذِنَ لَهُ عَلَيْهِ He took, or got, permission, or leave, for him from him. (M.) You say, اِيذَنْ لِى عَلَى الأَمِيرِ (S, TA) Take thou, or get thou, permission for me from the commander, or governor, or prince. (TA.) El-A'azz Ibn-'AbdAllah says, [And verily I, when the prince is niggardly of his permission, am able to take permission of myself when I will]. (TA.) And a poet says, [I said to a door-keeper, near by whom was her house, take thou, or get thou, permission for me to enter, for I am her husband's father, and her neighbour]: meaning, says Aboo-Jaafar, لِتَأْذَنْ; for the suppression of the ل is allowable in poetry, and the pronunciation with kesr to the ت is accord. to the dial. of him who says أَنْتَ تِعْلَمُ. (S.) أَذِنَ بِالشَّىءِ, (S, * M, Msb, K,) aor. اَذَنَ , (S, M, K,) inf. n. إِذْنٌ and أَذَنٌ and أَذَانٌ and أَذَانَةٌ, (M, K,) He knew the thing; knew of it; had knowledge of it; became informed, or apprized, of it. (S, M, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur [ii. 279], فَأْذَنُوا بِحَرْبٍ مِنَ ٱللّٰهِ وَرَسُولِهِ (S, M, K) Then be ye informed, or apprized, of war [that shall come upon you] from God and his apostle: (M, K:) or then be ye sure, or assured, &c. (T.) [See also إِذْنٌ, below.] أَذَنَهُ, (T, S, M, K,) inf. n. أَذْنٌ, (T,) He hit, or hurt, his ear; (T, S, M, K;) or struck his ear; (so in some copies of the S;) and آذَنَهُ signifies the same, (M, K,) inf. n. إِيذَانٌ. (TA.) [See also 2.] أُذِنَ [as though originally signifying He had his ear hit or hurt;] he complained, or had a complaint, of his ear; (K;) said of a man. (TA.)

    أذّنهُ

    2. أذّنهُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. تَأْذِينٌ, (K,) He wrung, or twisted, (عَرَكَ,) his (a boy's, S) ear: (S, K:) or he struck, (ضَرَبَ, TA,) or struck with his finger, or fillipped, (نَقَرَ, M, TA,) his ear. (M, TA.) [See also أَذَنَهُ.] They say, (in a prov., TA in art. جوز,) لِكُلِّ جَابِهٍ جَوْزَةٌ ثُمَّ يُؤْذَّنُ, (M, TA,) i. e. For every one that comes to water is a single watering for his family and his cattle; then his ear is struck, to apprize him that he has nothing more to receive from them: (TA in the present art., and the like is said in the same in art. جوز:) or, (assumed tropical:) then he is repelled from the water: (TA in art. جوز:) [for أذّنهُ signifies also] (assumed tropical:) He repelled him, (IAar, T, M, K,) namely, a man, (IAar, T, M,) from drinking, (K,) and did not give him to drink. (M, K.) You say also, أَذِّنُوا عَنِّى أُوَلَهَا, [in which the pronoun appears, from the context, to relate to camels,] (assumed tropical:) Send ye away from me the first ones of them. (En-Nadr, T.) أذّن النَّعْلَ, (inf. n. as above, S,) He put to the sandal what is termed أُذُنٌ, q. v. infrà: (S, M, K:) and in like manner one says with respect to other things. (S, K.) أذّن, (M, K,) inf. n. as above, (K,) also signifies He made known, or notified, a thing (بِشَىْءٍ) much; (M, K; *) he proclaimed, or made proclamation; syn. نَادَى: (Jel in vii. 42, and Bd and Jel in xii. 70 and xxii. 28:) Sb says that some of the Arabs make أَذَّنَ and آذَنَ to be syn.: but some say that the former signifies he called out publickly; and the latter, i. q. أَعْلَمَ [he made to know, &c.: see 4]. (M, TA.) It is said in the Kur [xxii. 28], وَأَذِّنْ فِى النَّاسِ بِالحَجِّ (M) And proclaim thou, among the people, the pilgrimage. (Bd, Jel.) Also, (S, K,) or أذّن بِالصَّلَاةِ, (Msb,) inf. n. as above, (M, K,) or أَذَانٌ, (S,) or both, (TA,) or the latter is [properly speaking] a simple subst. [used as an inf. n.], as in the instances of وَدَّعَ وَدَاعَّا and سَلَّمَ سَلَامًا and كَلَّمَ كَلَامًا &c., (Msb,) He called to prayer; (M, K;) he notified, or made known, or proclaimed, [i. e., chanted, from the مِئْذَنَة,] the time of prayer; (S, * Msb, * TA;) and آذَنَ signifies the same, (K,) inf. n. إِيذَانٌ. (TA.) IB says, the phrase أَذَّنَ العَصْرُ, with the verb in the act. form, [a phrase commonly obtaining in the present day,] is wrong; the correct expression being أُذِّنَ بِالعَصْرِ [The time of the prayer of afternoon was proclaimed, i. e., chanted], with the verb in the pass. form, and with the preposition to connect it with its subject. (Msb.) You say also, أَذَّنَ بِإِرْسَالِ إِبِلِهِ He spoke of sending away his camels. (En-Nadr, T.)

    آذنهُ

    4. آذنهُ: see 1, last sentence but one. [Hence, app.,] inf. n. إِيذَانٌ, (assumed tropical:) He prevented him, or forbade him; (K;) and repelled him. (TA.) [See also 2.] And (assumed tropical:) It (a thing, M) pleased, or rejoiced, him, (M, K,) and he therefore listened to it. (M.) آذَنْتُهُ, inf. n. إِيذَانٌ, (T, Msb,) in the place of which the subst. أَذَانٌ is also used, (T,) signifies أَعْلَمْتُهُ [I made him to know, or have knowledge; informed, apprized, advertised, or advised, him; gave him information, intelligence, notice, or advice: and I made it known, notified it, or announced it]: (T, Msb:) and تَأَذَّنْتُ, also, signifies أَعْلَمْتُ [as meaning I made to know, &c.: and I made known, &c.]. (Msb.) You say, آذنهُ بِالأَمْرِ, (T, K, [in the CK, erroneously, اَذَنَهُ,]) or بِالشَّىْءِ, (S,) and آذنهُ الأَمْرَ, (M, K,) inf. n. إِيذَانٌ, (T,) meaning أَعْلَمَهُ [He made him to know, or have knowledge of, the thing; informed, apprized, advertised, or advised, him of it; gave him information, intelligence, notice, or advice, of it; made it known, notified it, or announced it, to him]; (T, S, M, K;) as also الأَمْرَ تأذّنهُ. (M.) So, accord. to one reading, in the Kur [ii. 279], فَآذِنُوا بِحَرْبٍ مِنَ اللّٰهِ Then make ye known, or notify ye, or announce ye, war from God. (M. [For the more common reading, see 1, latter part.]) And so in the Kur [vii. 166], رَبُّكَ وَ إِذْ تَأَذَّنَ And when thy Lord made known, or notified, or announced: (Zj, S, M, K: *) or the meaning here is, swore: (M, K: *) [for] you say, لَيَفْعَدَنَ تَأَذَّنَ, meaning he swore that he would assuredly do [such a thing]: (M:) Lth says that لَأَ فْعَلَنَّ كَذَا وَ كَذَا تَأَذَّنْتُ signifies the making the action obligatory. (T.) You say also, الأَمِيرُ فِى النَّاسِ تَأَذَّنَ The commander, or governor, or prince, proclaimed (نَادَى) among the people, with threatening (S, K) and prohibition; i. e. تَقَدَّمَ and أَعْلَمَ. (S.) And you say of a building that has cracked in its sides, آذَنَ بِٱلِانْهِدَامِ وَالسُّقُوطِ (assumed tropical:) [It gave notice of becoming a ruin and of falling down]. (Msb in art. دعو.) [See also a similar ex. in a verse cited voce أَلَا. And hence,] آذَنَ العُشْبُ [in the CK (erroneously) اَذَنَ] (tropical:) The herbage began to dry up; part of it being still succulent, and part already dried up. (M, K, TA.) And آذَنَ الحُبُّ The grain put forth its أَذَنَة, or leaves. (TA.) See also 2, latter half, in two places. آذَنَ and تأذّن are [also] used in one and the same sense [as meaning He knew; had knowledge; or became informed, apprized, advertised, or advised, of a thing]; like as one says أَيْقَنَ and تَيَقَّنَ. (S, TA.) You say, تَأَذَّنْ, meaning اِعْلَمْ [Know thou]; like as you say تَعَلَّمْ, meaning اِعْلَمْ. (M.)

    تَاَذَّنَ

    5: see 4, in eight places.

    استأذنهُ

    10. استأذنهُ He asked, or demanded, of him permission, or leave, (M, Msb, K,) فِى كَذَا to do such a thing. (Msb.) [You say, استأذن meaning He asked, or demanded, permission, or leave, to enter, or to come into the presence of another; and to go. And استأذن فِى الدُّخُولِ عليه, and, elliptically, استأذن عليه, He asked, or demanded, permission, or leave, to go in to him.]

    أُذْنٌ

    أُذْنٌ: see أُذُنٌ.

    إِذْنٌ

    إِذْنٌ [is held by some to be an inf. n., like أَذَيِنٌ: (see 1:) by others, to be] a simple subst.; (Msb;) signifying Permission; leave; or concession of liberty, to do a thing: and sometimes command: and likewise will; (Msb, TA;) as in the phrase بِإِذْنِ ٱللّٰهِ by the will of God: (Msb:) or, accord. to El-Harállee, the withdrawal, or removal, of prevention or prohibition, and the giving of power or ability, in respect of being and creation: or, accord. to Ibn-El-Kemál, the rescission of prohibition, and concession of freedom of action, to him who has been prohibited by law: or, accord. to Er-Rághib, the notification of the allowance or permission of a thing, and of indulgence in respect of it; as in إِلَّا لِيُطَاعَ بِإِذْنِ ٱللّٰهِ, [in the Kur iv. 67,] meaning [but that he may be obeyed] by the will of God, and [also] by his command: (TA:) or, as explained in the Ksh, facilitation; an explanation founded upon the opinion that the actions of men are by their own effective power, but facilitated by God; and in this sense, Esh-Shiháb regards it as a metaphor, or a non-metaphorical trope: (MF:) and accommodation; syn. تَوْفِيقٌ; (Hr in explanation of a clause of iii. 139 of the Kur [which see below];) but Es-Semeen says that this requires consideration. (TA.) Also Knowledge; syn. عِلْمٌ; (T, M, K;) and so أَذِينٌ; (M, K;) as in the saying فَعَلَهُ بِإِذْنِى (T, * M, K) and بِأَذِينى (M, K) [He did it with my knowledge]: or إِذْنٌ has a more particular signification than عِلْمٌ, being scarcely ever, or never, used save of that [knowledge] wherein is will, conjoined with command or not conjoined therewith; for in the saying [in the Kur iii. 139, referred to above,] وَمَا كَانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَنْ تَمُوتَ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللّٰهِ [And it is not for a soul to die save with the knowledge of God], it is known that there are will and command; and in the saying [in the Kur ii. 96], وَمَا هُمْ بِضَّارِينَ بِهِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا بإِذْنِ ٱللّٰهِ [But they do not injure thereby any one save with the knowledge of God], there is will in one respect, for there is no difference of opinion as to the fact that God hath made to exist in man a faculty wherein is the power of injuring another: (Er-Rághib:) but Es-Semeen says that this plea is adduced by Er-Rághib because of his inclining to the persuasion of the Moatezileh. (TA.) You say also, فَعَلْتُ كَذَا بِإِذْنِهِ meaning I did thus by his command. (T.)

    أَذَنٌ

    أَذَنٌ: see أَذَنَةٌ

    أُذُنٌ

    أُذُنٌ and أُذْنٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) the latter a contraction of the former, [which is the more common,] (Msb,) [The ear;] one of the organs of sense; (M, TA;) well known: (M:) of the fem. gender: (S, M, Msb, K:) as also أَذِينٌ: (K:) pl. آذَانٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) its only pl. form: (M:) dim. أُذَيْنَةٌ; but when used as a proper name of a man, أُذَيْنُ, though أُذَيْنَةُ has been heard. (S.) You say, جَآءَ نَاشِرَّا أُذُنَيْهِ [He came spreading, or, as we say, pricking up, his ears: meaning] (tropical:) he came in a state of covetousness, or eagerness. (T, K, TA. [See also نَشَرَ.]) And وَجَدْتُ فُلَانًا لَا بِسًا أُذُنَيْهِ (tropical:) I found such a one feigning himself inattentive, or heedless. (T, TA.) And لَبِسْتُ أُذُنَىَّ لَهُ (tropical:) I turned away from him, avoided him, or shunned him: or I feigned myself inattentive, or heedless, to him. (K, TA. [See also لَبِسَ.]) (tropical:) A man who listens to what is said to him: (M, K, TA:) or a man who hears the speech of every one: (S:) or who relies upon what is said to him; as also وَابِصَةُ السَّمْعِ: (M in art. وبص:) applied as an epithet to one and to a pl. number, (S, M, K,) alike, (S, M,) and to two, and to a woman; not being pluralized nor dualized [nor having the fem. form given to it]: (IB:) you say رَجُلٌ أٌذْنٌ (AZ, S, M) and أُذْنٌ, and رِجَالٌ أُذُنٌ and أُذْنٌ [&c.]: (AZ, M:) and sometimes it is applied to a man as a name of evil import. (M.) It is said in the Kur [ix. 61], وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ أُذُنٌ قُلْ أُذُنُ خَيْرٍ لَكُمْ (T, M) And they say, “He is one who hears and believes everything that is said to him:” as though, by reason of the excess of his listening, he were altogether the organ of hearing; like as a spy is termed عَيْنٌ; or أُذُن is here from أَذِنَ “he listened,” and is like أُنُفٌ and شُلُلٌ in its derivation: (Bd:) for among the hypocrites was he who found fault with the Prophet, saying, “If anything be told him from me, I swear to him, and he receives it from me, because he is an أُذُن:” (M:) therefore he is commanded to answer, Say, “A hearer of good for you.” (T, M, Bd.) (assumed tropical:) A sincere, or faithful, adviser of a people, who counsels to obedience: (Msb:) a man's intimate, and special, or particular, friend. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) A certain appertenance of the heart; (M;) [i. e. either auricle thereof;] أُذُنَا القَلْبِ signifying two appendages (زَنَمَتَانِ) in the upper part of the heart: (K:) and (tropical:) of a نَصْل [or arrow-head or the like; i. e. either wing thereof]: and (tropical:) of an arrow; آذَانُ السَّهْمِ signifying the feathers of the arrow, as AHn says, when they are attached thereon; and ذُو ثَلَاثِ آذَانٍ [a thing having three such feathers] meaning an arrow: all so called by way of comparison: (M:) and (assumed tropical:) of a sandal; (S, M, K;) i. e. the part thereof that surrounds the قِبَال [q. v.]: (M:) or أُذُنَا النَّعْلِ signifies the two parts, [or loops,] of the sandal, to which are tied the عَضُدَانِ of the شِرَاك, [or two branches of the thong that is attached to another thong between two of the toes, which two branches, however, sometimes pass through the أُذُنَانِ, encompassing the heel,] behind the narrow part (خَصْر) of the sole. (AO in an anonymous MS in my possession. See also خَصْرٌ.) (tropical:) A handle, (M,) or [a loopshaped, or an ear-shaped, handle, such as is termed] عُرْوَة, (T, K,) of anything; (M, K) as, for instance, (M,) of a كُوز [or mug]; (T, M;) and of a دَلْو [or bucket]: so called by way of comparison: and in all cases fem.: (M:) pl. as above. (T.) (assumed tropical:) What becomes sharp, or pointed, and then falls off, or out, of the plants called عَرْفَج and ثُمَام when they put forth their خُوص [q. v.], or when their خوص become perfect; because it has the shape of an ear. (AHn, M.)

    إِذَنْ

    إِذَنْ, also written إِذًا: see art. اذا.

    أَذَنَةٌ

    أَذَنَةٌ The leaves of trees, (En-Nadr, T,) or of grain. (K.) [The kind of leaf called خُوصَة of the ثُمَام.] (tropical:) The young ones of camels and of sheep or goats; (En-Nadr, T, K;) as being likened to the خُوصَة of the ثُمَام. (TA.) A piece of straw: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] أَذَنٌ [in the CK أُذُنٌ]. (IAar, T, K.) Appetite, appetency, longing, yearning, or strong desire. (En-Nadr, T.) You say, هٰذِهِ بَقْلَةٌ تَجِدُ بِهَا الإِبِلُ أَذَنَةَ شَدِيدَةً This is a herb for which the camels feel a strong appetite &c. (En-Nadr, T.) And هٰذَا طَعَامٌ لَا أَذَنَةَ لَهُ This is food for the odour of which there is no appetite. (K, * TA.)

    أَذَانٌ

    أَذَانٌ A making known; a notification; an announcement. (T, S, Mgh.) [See 4.] So in the Kur [ix. 3], وَ أَذَانٌ مِنَ ٱللّٰهِ وَرَسُولِهِ إِلَى النَّاسِ [And a notification, or an announcement, from God and his apostle to men, or the people]. (T, Mgh.) Also, and أَذِينٌ, (T, S, M, K,) and تَأْذِينٌ, [the last an inf. n. of 2, and the second a quasi-inf. n. of the same, which see,] (M, K,) The notification, or announcement, of prayer, and of the time thereof; (T, S;) the call to prayer. (M, K.) [The words of this call (which is usually chanted from the مِئْذَنَة, or turret of the mosque,) are اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرْ (four times) أَشْهَدُ أنْ لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهْ (twice) أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَّسُولُ ٱللّٰهُ (twice) حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاهٌ (twice) حَىَّ عَلَى الفَلَاحْ (twice) اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرٌ (twice) لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهٌ.] الأَذَانُ also signifies The [notification, or announcement, called] إِقَامَة; (M, K;) because it is a notification to be present at the performance of the divinelyordained prayers. (TA.) [This (which is chanted in the mosque) consists of the words of the former أَذَان with the addition of قَدْ قَامَتِ الصَّلَاهْ pronounced twice after حَىَ عَلَى الفَلَاحْ.] الأَذَانَانِ signifies The أَذَانِ [more commonly so called] and the إِقَامَة. (TA.)

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الهمزة والذال والنون أصلان متقاربان في المعنى متباعدان في اللفظ أحدهما أذن كل ذي أذن والآخر العلم وعنهما يتفرع الباب كله

ʾ-dh-n: two roots close in meaning but distant in form; one of them is the ear of every creature possessing an ear, and the other is knowledge; and from both the whole chapter branches out.

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About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

Sharing two of its three letters (computed; kinship of form, not of meaning)

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How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

أ

فأقصاها مخرجا: الهمزة والهاء والألف

The furthest of them [the three in the throat] in place: the hamza, the hāʾ and the alif. Sībawayh, line 26548 ↗

فأولها من أسفله وأقصاه، مخرج الهمزة والألف والهاء، هكذا يقول سيبويه

The first of them [in the throat], from its lowest and furthest part, is the place of the hamza, the alif and the hāʾ: so Sībawayh says. Ibn Jinnī, line 965 ↗

ذ

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأطراف الثنايا مخرج الظاء والذال، والثاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the edges of the front teeth is the place of the ẓāʾ, the dhāl and the thāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26561 ↗

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأطراف الثنايا، مخرج الظاء والذال والثاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the edges of the front teeth is the place of the ẓāʾ, the dhāl and the thāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 984 ↗

ن

ومن حافة اللسان من أدناها إلى منتهى طرف اللسان ما بينها وبين ما يليها من الحنك الأعلى وما فويق الثنايا مخرج النون

From the edge of the tongue, from its nearest part to the end of its tip, between it and the upper palate next to it and what is just above the front teeth, is the place of the nūn. Sībawayh, lines 26555–26556 ↗

ومن طرف اللسان بينه وبين ما فويق الثنايا، مخرج النون

From the tip of the tongue, between it and what is just above the front teeth, is the place of the nūn. Ibn Jinnī, line 979 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

أ

وإلا الهاء والهمزة فإنهما باردتان رطبتان

And except hāʾ and hamza, for these two are cold and moist.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2583

ذ

Level of existence: الحيوان · animals

Divine Name: المذل · the Abaser (al-Mudhill)

Lunar mansion: سعد السعود · Saʿd al-Suʿūd

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 65776

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ن

Level of existence: السماء الرابعة · the fourth heaven

Divine Name: النور · the Light (al-Nūr)

Lunar mansion: السماك · al-Simāk

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64663

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 8 line 2571 ↗

الثمانية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The eightfold [rank]: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2580
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

أ

فهي إشارة إلى جميع الأشياء قلت أو كثرت، وتكون الإشارة في بعض الأحيان من المتكلم إلى ذاته ونفسه، وهذه الإشارة سالمة من القبض.

It is an indication of all things, whether few or many. At times the indication is from the speaker to his own essence and self, and this indication is free of contraction (qabḍ).

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء القريب القليل.

It is an indication of the near, small thing.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء القريب المناسب.

It is an indication of the near, fitting (congruent) thing.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ذ

فهي إشارة إلى ما في تعظيم ذلك الشيء الذي ملكته الذات.

It is an indication of what lies in the magnifying of that thing which the self has come to possess.

فهي اسم للشيء الخشن في ذاته أو العظيم أو القبيح.

It is a name for the thing that is rough in itself, or great, or ugly.

فهي اسم للشيء القبيح الذي لا يعقبه في نفسه غضب.

It is a name for the ugly thing that is not followed, in itself, by anger.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ن

فهي الخير الساكن في الذات الشاعل فيها.

It is the good that dwells in the self, kindling [al-shāʿil, as written] within it.

فهي إشارة إلى الخير الكامل أو النور الساطع.

It is an indication of perfect good or radiant light.

فهي إشارة إلى شيء يدركه المتكلم أو هو له.

It is an indication of something that the speaker perceives or that belongs to him.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
In the sister scriptsHebrew א ז נSyriac ܐ ܕ ܢ
Arabicأ ذ ن
Hebrewא ז נ
Syriacܐ ܕ ܢ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩱 𐩹 𐩬
Phoenician𐤀 𐤆 𐤍

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconAl-Khalīl anchors udhun in the organ of hearing, extends it metaphorically to any loop-handle (ʿurwat al-kūz), and to a person who 'listens to everyone' (huwa udhun);well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    Al-Khalīl anchors udhun in the organ of hearing, extends it metaphorically to any loop-handle (ʿurwat al-kūz), and to a person who 'listens to everyone' (huwa udhun); he also gives adhdhana/adhān as proclamation. Al-Jawharī moves to the legal-social sense: adhina lahu fī l-shayʾ = gave permission; adhina bi- = came to know, citing Q2:279 (fa-adhinū bi-ḥarbin); adhina = listened attentively (with the verses of Qaʿnab ibn Umm Ṣāḥib on the deaf-to-good, quick-to-evil). Ibn Fāris (Maqāyīs) states the two roots — ear, and knowledge — are formally distant but semantically converge, since by the ear all heard knowledge is obtained, and the whole chapter branches from this pairing. Al-Rāghib develops the metaphor of udhun khayrin (Q9:61, one who listens for what benefits) and of adhinat li-rabbihā (Q84:2, the sky 'gave ear' to its Lord), and treats adhina bi- as knowledge specifically mediated by hearing. Ibn Manẓūr (Lisān) consolidates: adhina bi = 'ilm (knew), āadhana/ādhana = informed, adhina lahu = permitted, and adhān as the technical term for the proclamation (announcement) — parallel in form to taʿdhīb/ʿadhāb. Lane confirms adhina lahu, aor. yaʾdhanu, inf. adhan, as 'gave ear, listened,' citing the ḥadīth on listening to Qurʾānic chant.

    Draws on: cayn · sihah · Ibn Fāris · mufradat · lisan · Lane

    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, s.v. أذن
    • Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, s.v. أذن
    • Lane's Lexicon, s.v. أذن
  • Letters & soundOf the three radicals only ذ and ن carry entries in the given correspondences;speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    Of the three radicals only ذ and ن carry entries in the given correspondences; أ has none recorded. Al-Dabbāgh glosses ذ (with fatḥa) as an indication of magnifying what the self has come to possess, and ن as the good that dwells in the self, 'kindled' within it — together suggestive, if one is inclined to read sound-symbolically, of hearing as an inward acquisition that kindles knowledge in the self, which loosely echoes Ibn Fāris's ear→knowledge convergence. Al-Dabbāgh's cosmological correspondences (ذ → animals/living creatures, ن → the fourth heaven) add little semantic traction for this particular root. This is explicitly speculative; mainstream historical linguistics treats such letter-symbolism as at most suggestive, not evidentiary.

    Draws on: dabbagh_fatha · akbari198

  • Root structureIbn Fāris lists no chapter-siblings for this nucleus in the data given, so the ʾ-dh pairing cannot be situated among neighboring two-letter chapters here.uncertain

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Ibn Fāris lists no chapter-siblings for this nucleus in the data given, so the ʾ-dh pairing cannot be situated among neighboring two-letter chapters here. Among the six permutations of أ-ذ-ن, only أذن itself is richly attested and glossed (ear/knowledge, per Maqāyīs); ذأن is marked as formally attested but carries no preserved gloss, while أنذ, ذنأ, نأذ, نذأ are unattested. This leaves very little material for Ibn Jinnī's greater derivation (al-tasarruf al-akbar) to work with — any claim that the permuted orders share a common semantic residue with أذن would be pure conjecture here, not something the sources support.

    Draws on: maqayis-nucleus · permutations

  • Semitic kin & loanwordsʾ-dh-n is an old, widely shared Semitic word for 'ear': Hebrew ʾōzen, Aramaic/Syriac ʾednā (or ʾudhnā), Akkadian uznu, Geʿez ʾezn.plausible

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    ʾ-dh-n is an old, widely shared Semitic word for 'ear': Hebrew ʾōzen, Aramaic/Syriac ʾednā (or ʾudhnā), Akkadian uznu, Geʿez ʾezn. Akkadian uznu shows the same semantic extension found in Arabic, from 'ear' to 'understanding, wisdom' — a close typological parallel to the Arabic ear→knowledge development traced above. Given this depth and breadth of cognates, Arabic أذن is a native inherited root, not a loanword.

    Draws on: comparative-semitics

  • Quranic exegesisAt Q9:61, where opponents mock the Prophet as udhun ('an ear,' i.e.well attested

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At Q9:61, where opponents mock the Prophet as udhun ('an ear,' i.e. credulous, believing everything he hears), the exegetes read the Qurʾān's reply (udhun khayrin lakum) as reversing the insult: he listens, but discerningly, to what benefits the believers — al-Zamakhsharī and al-Rāzī both stress this turn from taunt to praise. At Q84:2 (wa-adhinat li-rabbihā wa-ḥuqqat), al-Ṭabarī and al-Rāghib take adhinat as 'obeyed/gave ear,' the sky's submission being a form of hearing-and-complying, not mere physical audition. At Q2:279 (fa-ʾdhanū bi-ḥarbin min Allāhi wa-rasūlihi), the commentators read adhinū as 'know with certainty, be apprised' — the usurer is put on notice, the verb carrying the force of a formal proclamation of war, close to the adhān sense. The istiʾdhān verses (e.g. Q24) concerning entering houses are read by al-Rāzī and al-Zamakhsharī as establishing a legal-ethical protocol of permission tied to the sanctity of private space, extending the 'permission' sense of idhn from the individual audience (as in 4:119, where Satan is only given leave, not compulsion) to social law.

    Draws on: quran-occurrences

    • al-Ṭabarī, Tafsīr, ad Q84:2
    • al-Zamakhsharī, al-Kashshāf, ad Q9:61
    • al-Rāzī, Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb, ad Q2:279
  • Akbarian readingIn Faṣṣ Ādam, Ibn ʿArabī uses idhn (permission) in the image of the sealed treasuries of the Real: so long as the King's seal is upon them, none may dare open them save bi-idhnihi (by His leave), which is why He appointed Ādam as khalīfa to keep watch over the kingdom — the vicegerent's authority is precisely a delegated idhn.plausible

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    In Faṣṣ Ādam, Ibn ʿArabī uses idhn (permission) in the image of the sealed treasuries of the Real: so long as the King's seal is upon them, none may dare open them save bi-idhnihi (by His leave), which is why He appointed Ādam as khalīfa to keep watch over the kingdom — the vicegerent's authority is precisely a delegated idhn. Elsewhere, glossing the ḥadīth 'I was his hearing (samʿ) and his sight (baṣar),' Ibn ʿArabī points out that the Prophet did not say 'I was his eye (ʿayn) and his ear (udhun)' — he deliberately distinguishes the Names manifesting as faculties (samʿ, baṣar) from the bodily organs themselves (ʿayn, udhun), separating the two forms (ṣūratayn). The udhun as organ is thus, for him, the created instrument through which the divine attribute of hearing operates, but is not to be identified with that attribute.

    Draws on: fassAdam

    • Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, Faṣṣ Ādam
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