Mashrabaمشربة

عينPer Ibn Fāris, a single sound root denoting the bodily organ with which one sees and … (root yn)

العين والياء والنون أصل واحد صحيح يدل على عضو به يبصر وينظر ثم يشتق منه والأصل في جميعه ما ذكرنا قال الخليل العين …

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

عين
Patterns computed · our data

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

42 words7 verbs5 verbal nouns6 participles3 places and instruments3 intensives and elatives11 other nouns5 plurals2 relatives and abstracts

  • عَيْنwhat is means, or should be, I know not.)
  • أَعْيُن—
  • عُيُون—
  • عَيْنِيّocular; eye
  • أَعْيانnotables; VIP's
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Verbs7عَيْنَ · اِسْتَعانَ · عايَنَ

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

  • عَيْنَForm ILaneIbn Fāris
  • اِسْتَعانَseek aid from; resort toautoForm Xlibrary ×6
  • عايَنَhe met him eye to eye , or face to face, not doubting of his seeing himLaneForm IIIlibrary ×4Lane
  • عَيَّنَhe bored, perforated, or pierced, the pearlLaneForm IIlibrary ×3LaneIbn Fāris
Verbal nouns5تَعْيِين · عيَان · عَيَن

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

  • تَعْيِينappointing; assignmentautoForm II · Lane: inf. n.library ×3Lane
  • عيَانForm III · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • عَيَنForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • عَيَنَانForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • عَيَانَةForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
Participles6مُعَيَّن · عَائِن · مَعْيُون

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

Place, time and instrument3مَعِين · مِعْيَان · مَعَان

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

  • مَعِينsmitten with the evil eyeLanenoun of place or timeLaneIbn Fāris
  • مِعْيَانnoun of instrumentLaneIbn Fāris
  • مَعَانnoun of place or timeLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative3أَعْيَن · عَيَّان · عَيُون

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

  • أَعْيَنman wide in the eyeLaneelative or colour adjective (afʿal)LaneIbn Fāris
  • عَيَّانintensive (faʿʿāl)LaneIbn Fāris
  • عَيُونman who smites vehemently with the evil eyeLaneintensive (faʿūl)LaneIbn Fāris
Other nouns11عَيْن · أَعْيان · عِيَان

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

Plurals5أَعْيُن · عُيُون · عِين

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

Relative and abstract2عَيْنِيّ · عِيانِيّ

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

  • عَيْنِيّocular; eyeautorelative adjective (-iyy)library ×15Ibn Fāris
  • عِيانِيّeye; ocularautorelative adjective (-iyy)library ×1
Why this shape?What each of the 22 patterns does

What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.

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Choose a pattern; the root's letters pour into it. Then see whether the word exists in our sources. The machine makes shapes; only usage makes words.

مَفْعَلَةع ي نمَعْيَنَة

Not in our sources. A possible shape, not a word we can show: the Quran, the library and Lane do not have it for this root.

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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Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

English: AI translation
  • al-Khalīl · 170Anything by which you are aided (istaʿanta bihi), or that aids you (aʿānaka), is your ʿawn (عونك).

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

    Anything by which you are aided (istaʿanta bihi), or that aids you (aʿānaka), is your ʿawn (عونك). Fasting is an aid (ʿawn) to worship. You say hāʾulāʾi ʿawnuka (هؤلاء عونك) — 'these are your helpers' — masculine, feminine, and plural being alike in this word; its plural is aʿwān (أعوان). aʿantuhu iʿānatan (أعنته إعانة) — 'I helped him, a helping.' taʿāwanū (تعاونوا) means they helped one another. A man is maʿwān (معوان) — good at helping. Al-maʿūnah (المعونة) is (on the pattern) mafʿalah by analogy for one who derives it from al-ʿawn; for others it is faʿūlah from al-māʿūn (الماعون), itself (on the pattern) fāʿūl. Al-ʿawān (العوان) is the cow middling in age. Al-ḥarbu l-ʿawān (الحرب العوان) is the war before which there had already been a war — the war of Bakr was the first engagement, then it becomes ʿawān, as if raised from one state to a more severe one. Of a middle-aged woman it is said ʿawān (عوان). He said: 'Delicate ones, between maidens (abkār) and matrons (ʿawān)' Al-ʿānah (العانة) is a herd of wild donkeys, plural ʿānāt (عانات) and ʿūn (عون). ʿĀnāt (عانات) is a place in the region of al-Jazīrah, to which wine called al-ʿāniyah (العانية) is attributed. ʿĀnatu l-rajul (عانة الرجل) is the hair of a man's pubic region, diminutive ʿuwaynah (عوينة).

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    العين الناظرة لكل ذي بصر. وعين الماء، وعين الركبة. والعين من السحاب ما أقبل عن يمين القبلة، وذلك الصقع يسمى العين. يقال: نشأت سحابة من قبل العين فلا تكاد تخلف. وعين الشمس: صيخدها. ويقال لكل ركبة عينان كأنهما نقرتان في مقدمها. والعين: المال العتيد الحاضر. يقال: إنه لعين غير (دين) «7» ، أي: مال حاضر. ويقال: إن فلانا لكريم عين الكريم. ويقال: لا أطلب أثرا بعد عين، أي: بعد معاينة. ويقال: العين: الدينار، قال أبو المقدام «8» : حبشي له ثمانون عينا ... بين عينيه قد يسوق إفالا وعنت الشيء بعينه فأنا أعينه عينا، وهو معيون، ويقال: معين ورجل معيان: خبيث العين، قال في المعيون: «9» قد كان قومك يحسبونك سيدا ... وإخال أنك سيد معيون والعين: الميل في الميزان، تقول: أصلح عين ميزانك. والعين الذي تبعثه لتجسس الخبر، ونسميه العرب ذا العيينتين، وذا العيينتين وذا العوينتين كله بمعنى واحد. ورأيته عيانا، أي: معاينة. وتعين السقاء، أي: بلي ورق منه مواضع [فلم يمسك الماء] «10» ، قال القطامي «11» : ولكن الأديم إذا تفرى ... بلى وتعينا غلب الصناعا وتعين الشعيب، أي: المزادة. والعينة: السلف، وتعين فلان من فلان عينة، وقد عينه فلان تعيينا. والعين: بقر الوحش وهو اسم جامع لها كالعيس للإبل. ويوصف بسعة العين، فيقال: بقرة عيناء وامرأة عيناء، ورجل أعين، ولا يقال: ثور أعين. وقيل: يقال ذلك. وروي عن أبي عمرو. وهو حسن العينة والعين، والفعل: عين عينا. والعين: عظم سواد العين في سعتها. ويقال: الأعين: اسم للثور وليس بنعت. وهؤلاء أعيان تومهم، أي أشراف قومهم. ويقال لكل إخوة لأب وأم، ولهم إخوة لأمهات شتى: هؤلاء أعيان إخوتهم. والماء المعين: الظاهر الذي تراه العيون. وثوب معين: في وشيه ترابيع صغار تشبه عيون الوحش. وأولاد الرجل من الحرائر: بنو أعيان، ويقال: هم أعيان.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Al-ʿawān (العوان) is 'the middling one in age' (al-niṣf fī sinnihā) of anything, plural ʿūn (عون).

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

    Al-ʿawān (العوان) is 'the middling one in age' (al-niṣf fī sinnihā) of anything, plural ʿūn (عون). In the proverb: 'The matron (al-ʿawān) does not need to be taught liveliness/wine [al-khumrah]' (*). One says from it: ʿawwanati l-marʾah taʿwīnan (عونت المرأة تعوينا), and ʿānat taʿūnu ʿawnan (عانت تعون عونا). Al-ʿawān among wars is that in which fighting occurred repeatedly, as if they had regarded the first (war) as a bikr (a first/virgin one). A cow that is ʿawān (بقرة عوان) is neither an old fāriḍ nor a young bikr, but in between. Al-ʿawn (العون) is aid in a matter, plural al-aʿwān (الأعوان). Al-maʿūnah (المعونة) is al-iʿānah. One says mā ʿindaka maʿūnah wa-lā maʿānah wa-lā ʿawn (ما عندك معونة ولا معانة ولا عون) — 'you have no help at all.' Al-Kisāʾī said: al-maʿūn (المعون) is al-maʿūnah. Jamīl said: 'O Buthaynah, hold to "no" — if I insisted on it, despite the abundance of slanderers — what a help (maʿūn)!' He means: how good a help is your saying 'no' in repelling the slanderers, however many. Al-Farrāʾ said: it is the plural of maʿūnah, and there is no word of the pattern mafʿal with a single (referent) in the language — we explained this already at (the entry) mukrim. You say mā akhlānī fulānun min maʿāwinihi (ما أخلاني فلان من معاونه), and it (maʿāwin) is the plural of maʿūnah. A man is maʿwān (معوان) — abundant in helping people. istaʿantu bi-fulānin fa-aʿānanī wa-ʿāwananī (استعنت بفلان فأعانني وعاونني) — 'I sought help from so-and-so, and he helped and aided me.' In the supplication: 'O Lord, help me, and do not help (anyone) against me' (Rabbi aʿinnī wa-lā tuʿin ʿalayya). taʿāwana l-qawm (تعاون القوم) means the people helped one another. iʿtawanū (اعتونوا) is similar. The wāw is kept sound in iʿtawanū just as it is kept sound in taʿāwanū, because their meanings are the same, and it was built upon it (analogically); had that not been so, it would have been weakened. Al-mutaʿāwinah (المتعاونة), of women, is one advanced in age, found only with abundant flesh. Al-ʿānah (العانة) is a herd of wild donkeys, plural ʿūn (عون). And al-ʿānah is the pubic hair. istaʿāna fulānun (استعان فلان) means 'so-and-so shaved his pubic hair.' ʿĀnah (عانة) is a town on the Euphrates to which wine is attributed, called ʿāniyah (عانية). Zuhayr said (1): '...from the wine of ʿĀnah, which has not long matured' (2) (*) And sometimes they said ʿānāt (عانات), as they said ʿArafah/ʿArafāt. The declension of ʿānāt follows that of ʿArafāt and Adhriʿāt.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    العين: حاسة الرؤية، وهى مؤنثة، والجمع أعين وعيون وأعيان. قال يزيد (1) : دلاص كأعيان الجراد المنظم (2) * وتصغيرها عيينة، ومنه قيل: " ذو العيينتين " للجاسوس. ولا تقل: " ذو العوينتين ". والعين: عين الماء، وعين الركبة. ولكل ركبة عينان، وهما نقرتان في مقدمها عند الساق. والعين: عين الشمس. والعين: الدينار. والعين: المال الناض. والعين: الديدبان، والجاسوس. ولقيته عين عنة، إذا رأيته عيانا ولم يرك. وفعلت ذلك عمد عين، إذا تعمدته بجد ويقين. قال امرؤ القيس: أبلغا عني الشويعر أني * عمد عين قلدتهن حريما وكذلك: فعلته عمدا على عين. قال خفاف ابن ندبة السلمي: وإن تك خيلي قد أصيب صميمها * فعمدا على عين تيممت مالكا (*) ولقيته أول عين، وأول عائنة، وأدنى عائنة، أي قبل كل شئ. وعين الشئ: خياره. وعين الشئ: نفسه. يقال: هو هو عينا، وهو هو بعينه، ولا أخذ إلا درهمي بعينه. وفي المثل: " إن الجواد عينه فراره " (1) . و " لا أطلب أثرا بعد عين " أي بعد معاينة. وعائنة بني فلان: أموالهم ورعيانهم. وما بها عائن، وكذلك ما بها عين، أي أحد. وبلد قليل العين، أي قليل الناس. والعين: ما عن يمين قبلة العراق. يقال: نشأت السحابة من قبل العين. والعين: مطر أيام لا يقلع. ويقال: لقيته أول عين، أي أول شئ. وأسود العين: جبل. وقال الفرزدق: إذا زال عنكم أسود العين كنتم * كراما وأنتم ما أقام الاثم ورأس عين: بلدة. وعيون البقر: جنس من العنب يكون بالشام. وأعيان القوم: سراتهم وأشرافهم. والأعيان: الأخوة بنو أب واحد وأم واحدة. وهذه الأخوة تسمى المعاينة. وفي الحديث " أعيان بني الأم يتوارثون، دون بني العلات ". وفي الميزان عين، إذا لم يكن مستويا. وقول الحجاج للحسن: " لعينك أكبر من أمدك " يعني شاهدك ومنظرك أكبر من سنك. والعين: حرف من حروف المعجم. ويقال: هو عبد عين، أي هو كالعبد لك ما دمت تراه، فإذا غبت فلا. قال: ومن هو عبد العين إما لقاؤه * فحلو وإما غيبه فظنون ويقال: أنت على عيني، في الإكرام والحفظ جميعا. قال الله تعالى: (ولتصنع على عيني) . ويقال: بالجلد عين، وهي دوائر رقيقة، وذلك عيب فيه. تقول منه تعين الجلد، وسقاء (1) عين ومتعين. قال رؤبة (*) * ما بال عينى كالشعيب العين (1) * وتعين الرجل المال، إذا أصابه بعين. وتعين عليه الشئ: لزمه بعينه: وحفرت حتى عنت، أي بلغت العيون. والماء معين ومعيون، وأعينت الماء مثله. وعان الدمع والماء عينانا، بالتحريك، أي سال. وشرب من عائن، أي من ماء سائل. وعنت الرجل: أصبته بعينى، فأنا عائن، وهو معين على النقص ومعيون على التمام، قال الشاعر (2) في التمام: قد كان قومك يحسبونك سيدا * وإخال أنك سيد معيون وتعيين الشئ: تخصيصه من الجملة. وعينت القربة، إذا صببت فيها ماء لتنتفخ عيون الخرز فتنسد. قال جرير: بلى فارفض دمعك غير نزر * كما عينت بالسرب الطبابا والمعين: الثور الوحشي. قال جابر بن حريش ومعينا يحوى الصوار كأنه * متخمط قطم إذا ما بربرا وعينت اللؤلؤة: ثقبتها. وعينت فلانا: أخبرت بمساويه في وجهه. وعاينت الشئ عيانا، إذا رأيته بعينك. وابنا عيان: خطان يخطان في الأرض يزجر بهما الطير. وإذا علم أن القامر يفوز قدحه قيل: " جرى ابنا عيان ". والعيان: حديدة تكون في متاع الفدان، والجمع عين، وهو فعل فنقلوا لان الياء أخف من الواو. والعين، بالتحريك: أهل الدار. وقال الراجز (1) : تشرب ما في وطبها قبل العين (2) * وجاء فلان في عين، أي في جماعة. وقال جندل (3) : إذا رآني واحدا أو في عين * يعرفني أطرق إطراق الطحن (4) (*) ورجل أعين واسع العين بين العين، والجمع عين، وأصله فعل بالضم، ومنه قيل لبقر الوحش عين. والثور أعين، …

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Al-ʿayn (ع), al-yāʾ (ي), and al-nūn (ن) form one sound root indicating an organ by which one sees and looks;

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

    Al-ʿayn (ع), al-yāʾ (ي), and al-nūn (ن) form one sound root indicating an organ by which one sees and looks; other meanings are derived from it, the basic sense in all of it being what we mentioned. Al-Khalīl said: al-ʿayn (العين) is 'the seeing organ' (al-nāẓirah) for every sighted creature. Al-ʿayn is pluralized as aʿyun (أعين), ʿuyūn (عيون), and aʿyān (أعيان). The poet said: 'Many a heart of the gazelle-eyed women have I stirred with it, until they leaned toward necklaces and eyes (aʿyān)' And he said: 'The eyes (aʿyān) of the gloaters have grown cool, for...' Sometimes they pluralized it as aʿyunāt (أعينات). He said: 'With eyes (aʿyunāt) unmixed with any speck of dust' 'Eye of the heart' (ʿaynu l-qalb) is used as a metaphor, by way of comparison. Among the proverbs of the Arabs concerning al-ʿayn is their saying: lā afʿaluhu mā ḥamalat ʿaynī al-māʾ (لا أفعله ما حملت عيني الماء) — 'I will never do it, as long as my eye can hold water,' meaning 'I will never do it, ever.' They also say: ʿaynun bihā kullu dāʾ (عين بها كل داء) — 'an eye afflicted with every fault,' for one with many faults. It is said: rajulun shadīdu jafni l-ʿayn (رجل شديد جفن العين), meaning a man patient in staying awake. It is said ʿuntu l-rajula (عنت الرجل) — 'I struck the man with my (evil) eye,' so aʿīnuhu ʿaynan (أعينه عينا), and he is maʿyūn (معيون). He said: 'Your people used to think you a chief, and I think you a chief bewitched by the (evil) eye (maʿyūn)' A man of evil eye is called ʿayūn (عيون) or miʿyān (معيان). Al-ʿāʾin (العائن) is the one who casts the evil eye. raʾaytu l-shayʾa ʿiyānan (رأيت الشيء عيانا) means 'I saw the thing directly' — i.e. muʿāyanatan. They say laqītuhu ʿayna ʿannatin (لقيته عين عنة), meaning 'I met him face to face.' ṣanaʿtu dhāka ʿamda ʿaynin (صنعت ذاك عمد عين) means 'I did that intentionally' — the origin being al-ʿaynu l-nāẓira ('the seeing eye'), i.e. done in the sight of all who saw him. huwa ʿabdu ʿaynin (هو عبد عين) means he serves only as long as his master can see him. For a matter as clear as day: yaḍiḥḥu bayna l-ṣubḥi li-dhī ʿaynayn ('it shines between dawn for one with two eyes'). Also from this root: al-ʿayn (العين), the spy sent to gather information, as if he were something by which you see what is hidden from you. It is said raʾaytuhum adnā ʿāʾinatin (رأيتهم أدنى عائنة), meaning 'before anyone else' — Allah knows best — before any watching soul. idhhab fa-ʿtan lanā (اذهب فاعتن لنا) means 'go and look for us.' mā bihā ʿaynun mutaḥarrikatu l-yāʾ (ما بها عين متحركة الياء) means 'no one is there,' the yāʾ vocalized for distinction. He said: 'Nor an eye (ʿaynan) — except an ostrich, striding swiftly' As for iʿtāna lanā manzilan (اعتان لنا منزلا), meaning 'he sought out a dwelling,' they did not explain it, but the sense is he surveyed the dwellings with his eye and then chose. Also from this root: al-ʿayn (العين), the flowing spring, named by comparison to the seeing eye for its clarity. qad ʿānati l-ṣakhratu (قد عانت الصخرة) is said when there is a crack in the rock from which water emerges. ḥafara fa-aʿyana wa-aʿāna (حفر فأعين وأعان) means 'he dug until he struck a spring.' Also from this root: al-ʿayn (العين), the cloud coming from the direction of the qibla — a metaphor upon a metaphor, compared to the water-spring, itself compared to the human eye; they say clouds arising from that direction rarely fail to bring rain. Ibn al-Aʿrābī said: one says hādhā maṭaru l-ʿayn (هذا مطر العين), but not muṭirnā bi-l-ʿayn. 'The eye of the sun' (ʿaynu l-shams) is likened to the human eye. Al-Khalīl said: the eye of the sun is its round disk (ṣaykhad). Also from this root: māʾun ʿāʾin (ماء عائن), meaning flowing water. Also from this root: ʿaynu l-siqāʾ (عين السقاء). Al-Khalīl said: of a waterskin, when a spot on it grows thin, one says qad taʿayyanat (قد تعينت) — also derived from al-ʿayn, because thinning brings it near tearing, so the waterskin appears as if it can be seen through, as though it had an eye. Thaʿlab cited: 'Sulaymā said a saying to her friend: What is wrong with my cousin, returning from his water-source, with a twisted (waterskin), its "eye" showing at its neck?' — meaning a waterskin thinned (taʿayyanat) at its neck. siqāʾun ʿaynun (سقاء عين) is said when it has spots like eyes, as mentioned. He cited: 'What ails my eye, like the worn, eye-spotted waterskin?' And they said, of al-Ṭirimmāḥ's verse: 'So it moistened, of it, every worn and eye-spotted (waterskin), while the water-carrying camels dried up amid the open desert' [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    العين والياء والنون أصل واحد صحيح يدل على عضو به يبصر وينظر ثم يشتق منه والأصل في جميعه ما ذكرنا قال الخليل العين الناظرة لكل ذي بصر والعين تجمع على أعين وعيون وأعيان قال الشاعر : — فقد أروع قلوب الغانيات به … حتى يملن بأجياد وأعيان … وقال : — فقد قر أعيان الشوامت أنهم … وربما جمعوا أعينا على أعينات قال : — بأعينات لم يخالطها قذى … وعين القلب مثل على معنى التشبيه ومن أمثال العرب في العين قولهم لا أفعله ما حملت عيني الماء أي لا أفعله أبدا ويقولون عين بها كل داء للكثير العيوب ويقال رجل شديد جفن العين إذا كان صبورا على السهر ويقال عنت الرجل إذا أصبته بعينك فأنا أعينه عينا وهو معيون قال : — قد كان قومك يحسبونك سيدا … وإخال أنك سيد معيون … ورجل عيون ومعيان خبيث العين والعائن الذي يعين ورأيت الشيء عيانا أي معاينة ويقولون لقيته عين عنة أي عيانا وصنعت ذاك عمد عين إذا تعمدته والأصل فيه العين الناظرة أي إنه صنع ذلك بعين كل من رآه وهو عبد عين أي يخدم ما دام مولاه يراه ويقال للأمر يضح بين الصبح لذى عينين ومن الباب العين الذي تبعثه يتجسس الخبر كأنه شيء ترى به ما يغيب عنك ويقال رأيتهم أدنى عائنة أي قبل كل أحد يريد والله أعلم قبل كل نفس ناظرة ويقال اذهب فاعتن لنا أي انظر ويقال ما بها عين متحركة الياء تريد أحدا له عين فحركت الياء فرقا قال : — ولا عينا إلا نعاما مشمرا … فأما قولهم اعتان لنا منزلا أي ارتاده فإنهم لم يفسروه والمعنى أنه نظر إلى المنازل بعينه ثم اختار ومن الباب العين الجارية النابعة من عيون الماء وإنما سميت عينا تشبيها لها بالعين الناظرة لصفائها ومائها ويقال قد عانت الصخرة وذلك إذا كان بها صدع يخرج منه الماء ويقال حفر فأعين وأعان ومن الباب العين السحاب ما جاء من ناحية القبلة وهذا مشبه بمشبه لأنه شبه بعين الماء التي شبهت بعين الإنسان يقولون إذا نشأ السحاب من قبل العين فلا يكاد يخلف قال ابن الأعرابي يقال هذا مطر العين ولا يقال مطرنا بالعين وعين الشمس مشبه بعين الإنسان قال الخليل عين الشمس صيخدها المستدير ومن الباب ماء عائن أي سائل ومن الباب عين السقاء قال الخليل يقال للسقاء إذا بلي ورق موضع منه قد تعين وهذا أيضا من العين لأنه إذا رق قرب من التخرق فصار السقاء كأنه ينظر به وأنشد ثعلب : — قالت سليمى قولة لريدها … ما لابن عمي صادرا عن شيدها … بذات لوث عينها في جيدها … أراد قربة قد تعينت في جيدها ويقال سقاء عين إذا كانت فيه كالعيون وهو الذي قد ذكرناه وأنشد : — ما بال عيني كالشعيب العين … وقالوا في قول الطرماح : — فأخضل منها كل بال وعين … وجف الروايا بالملا المتباطن … إن العين الجديد بلغة طي وهذا عندنا مما لا معنى له إنما العين الذي به عيون وهي التي ذكرناها من عيون السقاء وإنما غلط القوم لأنهم رأوا باليا وعينا فذهبوا إلى أن الشاعر أراد كل جديد وبال وهذا خطأ لأن البالي الذي بلي والعين الذي يكون به عيون وقد تكون القربة الجديد ذات عيون لعيب في الجلد والدليل على ما قلناه قول القطامي : — ولكن الأديم إذا تفرى … بلي وتعينا غلب الصناعا … ومن باقي كلامهم في العين العين البقر وتوصف البقرة بسعة العين فيقال بقرة عيناء والرجل أعين قال الخليل ولا يقال ثور أعين وقال غيره يقال ثور أعين قال ذو الرمة : — رفيق أعين ذيال تشبهه … فحل الهجان تنحى غير مخلوج … قال الخليل الأعين اسم الثور ويقال معين أيضا قال : — ومعينا يحوي الصوار كأنه … متخمط قطم إذا ما بربرا … ويقال قواف عين وسئل الأصمعي عن تفسيرها فقال لا أعرفه وهذا من الورع الذي كان يستعمله في تركه تفسير القرآن فكأنه لم يفسر العين كما لم يفسر الحور لأنهما لفظتان في القرآن قال الله تعالى : ﴿ وحور عين كأمثال اللؤلؤ المكنون ﴾ إنما المعنى في القوافي العين أنها نافذة كالشيء النافذ البصر قال الهذلي : — بكلام خصم أو جدال مجادل … غلق يعالج أو قواف عين … ومن الباب قولهم أعيان القوم أي أشرافهم وهم قياس ما ذكرناه كأنهم عيونهم التي بها ينظرون وكذلك الإخوة قال الخليل تقول لكل إخوة يكونون لأب وأم ولهم إخوة من أمهات شتى هؤلاء أعيان إخوتهم وهذا أيضا مقيس على ما ذكرناه وعينة كل شيء خياره يستوي فيه الذكر والأنثى كما يقال هذا عين الشيء وعينته أي أجوده لأن أصفى ما في وجه الإنسان عينه ومن الباب ابنا عيان خطان يخطهما الزاجر ويقول ابني عيان أسرعا البيان كأنه بهما ينظر إلى ما يريد أن يعلمه وقال الراعي يصف قدحا : — جرى ابنا عيان بالشواء المضهب … ويقال نظرت البلاد بعين أو بعينين إذا طلع النبت وكل هذا محمول واستعارة وتشبيه قال الشاعر : — إذا نظرت بلاد بني نمير … بعين أو بلاد بني صباح … رميناهم بكل أقب نهد … وفتيان العشية والصباح … ومن الباب العين وهو المال العتيد الحاضر يقال هو عين غير دين أي هو مال حاضر تراه العيون وعين الشيء نفسه تقول خذ درهمك بعينه فأما قولهم للميل في الميزان عين فهو من هذا أيضا لأن العين كالزيادة في الميزان وقال الخليل العينة السلف يقال تعين فلان من فلان عينة وعينه تعيينا قال الخليل واشتقت من عين الميزان وهي زيادته وهذا الذي ذكره الخليل صحيح لأن العينة لا بد أن تجر زيادة ويقال من العينة اعتان وأنشد : — فكيف لنا بالشرب إن لم تكن لنا … دراهم عند الحانوي ولا نقد … أندان أم نعتان أم ينبري لنا … فتى مثل نصل السيف أبرزه الغمد … ومن الباب عين الركية وهما عينان كأنهما نقرتان في مقدمها فهذا باب العين والياء وما معهما في الثلاثي فأما العين والألف فقد مضى ذكر ذلك لأن الألف فيه لا بد أن تكون منقلبة عن ياء أو واو وقد ذكر ذلك والله أعلم

  • al-Rāghib · 502Al-ʿawn (العون) is mutual help and support (al-muʿāwanah wa-l-muẓāharah).

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

    Al-ʿawn (العون) is mutual help and support (al-muʿāwanah wa-l-muẓāharah). It is said fulānun ʿawnī (فلان عوني), meaning 'so-and-so is my helper' (muʿīnī), and aʿantuhu (أعنته) — 'I helped him.' Allah, the Exalted, said: 'So help me with strength' (fa-aʿīnūnī bi-quwwah) [al-Kahf 18:95], and: 'and other people helped him with it' (wa-aʿānahu ʿalayhi qawmun ākharūn) [al-Furqān 25:4]. Al-taʿāwun (التعاون) is mutual support. He said: 'And cooperate in righteousness and piety, and do not cooperate in sin and aggression' (wa-taʿāwanū ʿalā l-birri wa-l-taqwā wa-lā taʿāwanū ʿalā l-ithmi wa-l-ʿudwān) [al-Māʾidah 5:2]. Al-istiʿānah (الاستعانة) is seeking help. He said: 'Seek help through patience and prayer' (istaʿīnū bi-l-ṣabri wa-l-ṣalāh) [al-Baqarah 2:45]. Al-ʿawān (العوان) is that which is intermediate in years, and was made a metonymy for a woman of middle age, in view of something like the poet's saying: [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    العين الجارحة. قال تعالى: والعين بالعين [المائدة/ 45] ، لطمسنا على أعينهم [يس/ 66] ، وأعينهم تفيض من الدمع [التوبة/ 92] ، قرت عين لي ولك [القصص/ 9] ، كي تقر عينها [طه/ 40] ، ويقال لذي العين: عين «3» ، وللمراعي للشيء عين، وفلان بعيني، أي: أحفظه وأراعيه، كقولك: هو بمرأى مني ومسمع، قال: فإنك بأعيننا [الطور/ 48] ، وقال: تجري بأعيننا [القمر/ 14] ، واصنع الفلك بأعيننا [هود/ 37] ، أي: بحيث نرى ونحفظ. ولتصنع على عيني [طه/ 39] ، أي: بكلاءتي وحفظي. ومنه: عين الله عليك أي: كنت في حفظ الله ورعايته، وقيل: جعل ذلك حفظته وجنوده الذين يحفظونه، وجمعه: أعين وعيون. قال تعالى: ولا أقول للذين تزدري أعينكم [هود/ 31] ، ربنا هب لنا من أزواجنا وذرياتنا قرة أعين [الفرقان/ 74] . ويستعار العين لمعان هي موجودة في الجارحة بنظرات مختلفة، واستعير للثقب في المزادة تشبيها بها في الهيئة، وفي سيلان الماء منها فاشتق منها: سقاء عين ومتعين: إذا سال منها الماء، وقولهم: عين قربتك «1» ، أي: صب فيها ما ينسد بسيلانه آثار خرزه، وقيل للمتجسس: عين تشبيها بها في نظرها، وذلك كما تسمى المرأة فرجا، والمركوب ظهرا، فيقال: فلان يملك كذا فرجا وكذا ظهرا لما كان المقصود منهما العضوين، وقيل للذهب: عين تشبيها بها في كونها أفضل الجواهر، كما أن هذه الجارحة أفضل الجوارح ومنه قيل: أعيان القوم لأفاضلهم، وأعيان الإخوة: لنبي أب وأم، قال بعضهم: العين إذا استعمل في معنى ذات الشيء فيقال: كل ماله عين، فكاستعمال الرقبة في المماليك، وتسمية النساء بالفرج من حيث إنه هو المقصود منهن، ويقال لمنبع الماء: عين تشبيها بها لما فيها من الماء، ومن عين الماء اشتق: ماء معين. أي: ظاهر للعيون، وعين أي: سائل. قال تعالى: عينا فيها تسمى سلسبيلا [الإنسان/ 18] ، وفجرنا الأرض عيونا [القمر/ 12] ، فيهما عينان تجريان [الرحمن/ 50] ، ينان نضاختان [الرحمن/ 66] ، وأسلنا له عين القطر [سبأ/ 12] ، في جنات وعيون [الحجر/ 45] ، من جنات وعيون [الشعراء/ 57] ، وجنات وعيون وزروع [الدخان/ 25- 26] . وعنت الرجل: أصبت عينه، نحو: رأسته وفأدته، وعنته: أصبته بعيني نحو سفته: أصبته بسيفي، وذلك أنه يجعل تارة من الجارحة المضروبة نحو: رأسته وفأدته، وتارة من الجارحة التي هي آلة في الضرب فيجري مجرى سفته ورمحته، وعلى نحوه في المعنيين قولهم: يديت، فإنه يقال: إذا أصبت يده، وإذا أصبته بيدك، وتقول: عنت البئر أثرت عين مائها، قال: إلى ربوة ذات قرار ومعين [المؤمنون/ 50] ، فمن يأتيكم بماء معين [الملك/ 30] . وقيل: الميم فيه أصلية، وإنما هو من: معنت «2» . وتستعار العين للميل في الميزان ويقال لبقر الوحش: أعين وعيناء لحسن عينه، وجمعها: عين، وبها شبه النساء. قال تعالى: قاصرات الطرف عين [الصافات/ 48] ، وحور عين [الواقعة/ 22] .

  • Lisān · 711Al-ʿawn (العون) is 'the helper in a matter' (al-ẓahīr ʿalā l-amr);

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

    Al-ʿawn (العون) is 'the helper in a matter' (al-ẓahīr ʿalā l-amr); singular, dual, plural and feminine are all the same in it, though its broken plural has been reported as aʿwān (أعوان). The Arabs say, when the (drought) year comes, jāʾa maʿahā aʿwānuhā (جاء معها أعوانها) — 'its helpers came with it' — meaning by 'the year' famine, and by 'the helpers' locusts, wolves, and diseases. Al-ʿawīn (العوين) is a collective noun. Abū ʿAmr said: al-ʿawīn means al-aʿwān. Al-Farrāʾ said: likewise ṭusīs is the plural of ṭass. You say aʿantuhu iʿānatan (أعنته إعانة), istaʿantuhu (استعنته), and istaʿantu bihi fa-aʿānanī (استعنت به فأعانني). Now istaʿāna (استعان) is treated as weak even though there is no attested weak triliteral beneath it — that is, one does not say ʿāna yaʿūnu (عان يعون) like qāma yaqūmu — because even though the triliteral form is not actually spoken, it is treated as though it were. On this basis came aʿāna yuʿīnu (أعان يعين); the weakening has become consistent throughout this root, showing that its triliteral, though unused, is treated as though it were used. The verbal noun is al-ʿawn (العون), al-maʿānah (المعانة), al-maʿūnah (المعونة, with fatḥa), al-maʿūnah (with ḍamma), and al-maʿūn (المعون). Al-Azharī said: al-maʿūnah is (on the pattern) mafʿalah for one who derives it from al-ʿawn; some said it is faʿūlah from al-māʿūn, itself (on the pattern) fāʿūl. Other grammarians said al-maʿūnah is mafʿalah from al-ʿawn, like al-maghwathah from al-ghawth, al-maḍwafah from aḍāfa ('he feared'), and al-mashwarah from ashāra yushīru. Some Arabs drop the hāʾ and say maʿūn (معون), which is anomalous, since there is no masculine word of the pattern mafʿal without hāʾ in the language. Al-Kisāʾī said: no words of the pattern mafʿal with ḍammah on the ʿayn occur in the masculine except two rarities, not to be generalized: al-maʿūn and al-mukram. Jamīl said: 'O Buthaynah, hold to "no" — if I insisted on it, despite the abundance of slanderers — what a help (maʿūn)!' He means: how good is the help of your saying 'no' in repelling the slanderers, however many. And another said: 'For a day of glory, or a generous deed (mukram)...' And it was said maʿūn is the plural of maʿūnah, and mukram the plural of makrumah — so said al-Farrāʾ. taʿāwanū ʿalayya (تعاونوا علي) and iʿtawanū (اعتونوا) mean 'some of them helped others.' Sībawayh said: the wāw of iʿtawanū is kept sound because it carries the meaning of taʿāwanū, so the non-weakening was made a sign that it bears the meaning of that which must necessarily remain sound, namely taʿāwanū. And they said ʿāwantuhu muʿāwanatan wa-ʿiwānan (عاونته معاونة وعوانا); the wāw remains sound in the verbal noun because it is sound in the verb, owing to the alif preceding it. Ibn Barrī said: one says iʿtawanū and iʿtānū when some of them help others. Dhū al-Rummah said: 'How shall we manage the drinking, if we have not some coins with the shopkeeper, nor cash? Shall we help one another (anaʿtānu), or draw lots (nadānu), or shall a young man come to us, like a sword-blade, of praiseworthy nature?' And taʿāwanā (تعاونا): 'we helped one another.' Al-maʿūnah (المعونة) is al-iʿānah. A man is maʿwān (معوان) — good at helping. You say mā akhlānī fulānun min maʿāwinihi (ما أخلاني فلان من معاونه), it (maʿāwin) being the plural of maʿūnah.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    العين: حاسة البصر والرؤية، أنثى، تكون للإنسان وغيره من الحيوان. قال ابن السكيت: العين التي يبصر بها الناظر، والجمع أعيان وأعين وأعينات، الأخيرة جمع الجمع والكثير عيون، قال يزيد بن عبد المدان: ولكنني أغدو، علي مفاضة ... دلاص، كأعيان الجراد المنظم وأنشد ابن بري: بأعينات لم يخالطها القذى وتصغير العين عيينة، ومنه قيل ذو العيينتين للجاسوس، ولا تقل ذو العوينتين. قال ابن سيده: والعين الذي يبعث ليتجسس الخبر، ويسمى ذا العينين، ويقال تسميه العرب ذا العينين وذا العوينتين، كله بمعنى واحد. وزعم اللحياني أن أعينا قد يكون جمع الكثير أيضا، قال الله عز وجل: أم لهم أعين يبصرون بها وإنما أراد الكثير وقولهم: بعين ما أرينك، معناه عجل حتى أكون كأني أنظر إليك بعيني. وفي الحديث: أن موسى، عليه السلام، فقأ عين ملك الموت بصكة صكه ، قيل: أراد أنه أغلظ له في القول، يقال: أتيته فلطم وجهي بكلام غليظ، والكلام الذي قاله له موسى قال: أحرج عليك أن تدنو مني فإني أحرج داري ومنزلي، فجعل هذا تغليظا من موسى له تشبيها بفقء العين، وقيل: هذا الحديث مما يؤمن به وبأمثاله ولا يدخل في كيفيته. وقول العرب: إذا سقطت الجبهة نظرت الأرض بإحدى عينيها، فإذا سقطت الصرفة نظرت بهما جميعا، إنما جعلوا لها عينين على المثل. وقوله تعالى: ولتصنع على عيني ، فسره ثعلب فقال: لتربى من حيث أراك. وفي التنزيل: واصنع الفلك بأعيننا ، قال ابن الأنباري: قال أصحاب النقل والأخذ بالأثر الأعين يريد به العين، قال: وعين الله لا تفسر بأكثر من ظاهرها، ولا يسع أحدا أن يقول: كيف هي، أو ما صفتها؟ وقال بعض المفسرين: بأعيننا بإبصارنا إليك، وقال غيره: بإشفاقنا عليك، واحتج بقوله: ولتصنع على عيني ، أي لتغذى بإشفاقي. وتقول العرب: على عيني قصدت زيدا، يريدون الإشفاق. والعين: أن تصيب الإنسان بعين. وعان الرجل يعينه عينا، فهو عائن، والمصاب معين، على النقص، ومعيون، على التمام: أصابه بالعين. قال الزجاج: المعين المصاب بالعين، والمعيون الذي فيه عين، قال عباس بن مرداس: قد كان قومك يحسبونك سيدا، ... وإخال أنك سيد معيون وحكى اللحياني: إنك لجميل ولا أعنك ولا أعينك، الجزم على الدعاء، والرفع على الإخبار، أي لا أصيبك بعين. ورجل معيان وعيون: شديد الإصابة بالعين، والجمع عين وعين، وما أعينه. وفي الحديث: العين حق وإذا استغسلتم فاغسلوا. يقال: أصابت فلانا عين إذا نظر إليه عدو أو حسود فأثرت فيه فمرض بسببها. وفي الحديث: كان يؤمر العائن فيتوضأ ثم يغتسل منه المعين. وفي الحديث: لا رقية إلا من عين أو حمة ، تخصيصه العين والحمة لا يمنع جواز الرقية في غيرهما من الأمراض لأنه أمر بالرقية مطلقا، ورقى بعض أصحابه من غيرهما، وإنما معناه لا رقية أولى وأنفع من رقية العين والحمة. وتعين الإبل واعتانها: استشرفها ليعينها، وأنشد ابن الأعرابي: يزينها للناظر المعتان ... خيف قريب العهد بالحيران أي إذا كان عهدها قريبا بالولادة كان أضخم لضرعها وأحسن وأشد امتلاء. وتعين الرجل إذا تشوه وتأنى ليصيب شيئا بعينه. وأعلنها كاعتانها. ورجل عيون إذا كان نجيء العين، يقال: أتيت فلانا فما عين لي بشيء وما عينني بشيء أي ما أعطاني شيئا. والعين والمعاينة: النظر، وقد عاينه معاينة وعيانا. ورآه عيانا: لم يشك في رؤيته إياه. ورأيت فلانا عيانا أي مواجهة. قال ابن سيده: ولقيه عيانا أي معاينة، وليس في كل شيء قيل مثل هذا، لو قلت لحاظا لم يجز، إنما يحكى من ذلك ما سمع. وتعينت الشيء: أبصرته، قال ذو الرمة: تخلى فلا تنبو إذا ما تعينت ... بها شبحا، أعناقها كالسبائك ورأيت عائنة من أصحابه أي قوما عاينوني. وهو عبد عين أي ما دمت تراه فهو كالعبد لك، وقيل: أي ما دام مولاه يراه فهو فاره وأما بعده فلا، عن اللحياني، قال: وكذلك تصرفه في كل شيء من هذا كقولك هو صديق عين. ويقال للرجل يظهر لك من نفسه ما لا يفي به إذا غاب: هو عبد عين وصديق عين، قال الشاعر: ومن هو عبد العين، أما لقاؤه ... فحلو، وأما غيبه فظنون ونعم الله بك عينا أي أنعمها. ولقيته أدنى عائنة أي أدنى شيء تدركه العين. والعين: عظم سواد العين وسعتها. عين يعين عينا وعينة حسنة، الأخيرة عن اللحياني، وهو أعين وإنه لبين العينة، عن اللحياني، وإنه لأعين إذا كان ضخم العين واسعها، والأنثى عيناء، والجمع منها عين، وأصله فعل بالضم، ومنه قيل لبقر الوحش عين، صفة غالبة. قال الله عز وجل: وحور عين . ورجل أعين: واسع العين بين العين، والعين: جمع عيناء، وهي الواسعة العين. وفي الحديث إن في الجنة لمجتمعا للحور العين. وفي الحديث: أن رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، أمر بقتل الكلاب العين ، هي جمع أعين. وحديث اللعان: إن جاءت به أعين أدعج. والثور أعين والبقرة عيناء. قال ابن سيده: ولا يقال ثور أعين ولكن يقال الأعين، غير موصوف به، كأنه نقل إلى حد الاسمية. وقال ابن بري: يقال عين الرجل …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

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

    عَيْنٌ

    1. عَيْنٌ [app. as inf. n. of عَانَ, agreeably with analogy, (like as أَذْنٌ is of أَذَنَ, and أَنْفٌ of أَنَفَ, &c.,) aor. يَعِينٌ,] signifies The hitting, or hurting, [another] in the eye. (K.) And The smiting with the [evil] eye: (K:) which is said in a trad. to be a reality. (TA.) You say, عِنْتُ الرَّجُلَ I smote the man with my [evil] eye. (S.) And إِنَّكَ لَجَمِيلٌ وَلَا أَعِنْكَ, meaning [Verily thou art beautiful,] and may I not smite thee with the [evil] eye; and ولا أَعِينُكَ, meaning and I will not smite thee &c. (Lh, TA.) And المَالَ تعيّن He (a man) smote the مال [i. e. cattle, or camels, &c.,] with an [evil] eye: (S:) or الأِبِلَ تعيّن, and اعتانها, and اعانها, he raised his eyes towards the camels, looking at them, and expanded his hand over his eyebrow like as does he who shades his eyes from the sun, (K, TA,) to smite them with an [evil] eye, (K, * TA,) and he so smote them. (TA) عَانَ عَلَيْنَا, (S, TA,) aor. يَعِينُ, (S,) inf. n. عَيَانَةٌ; (S, TA; [in one of my copies of the S, عِيَانَة;]) and لَنَا اعتان; both signify He was, or became, a spy, or scout, for us. (S, TA.) [Golius mentions also عاين, construed with ل, in this sense, as from the S; in which I do not find it.] And one says, لَنَا مَنْزِلًا اِذْهَبْ فَٱعْتَنْ, Go thou, and look for, or seek, a place of alighting for us: (S:) and Lh says the like, making the verb trans. (TA.) And بَعَتْنَا عَيْنًا يَعْتَانُنَا, and يَعْتَانُ لَنَا; (K, TA;) and يَعِينُنَا, (K, TA, but omitted in the CK,) and يَعِينُ لَنَا, (El-Hejeree, TA,) inf. n. عَيَانَةٌ, (K, TA,) with fet-h, (TA) [in the CK عِيَانَة;]) i. e. [We sent a spy, or scout, to bring us information. (K, TA.) [See also مُعْتَانٌ.] عان الدَّمْعُ, and المَآءُ, (S,) inf. n. عَيَنَانٌ (S, K) and عَيْنٌ, (K, TA,) The tears, and (tropical:) the water, flowed. (S, K. *) And عَانتِ البِئْرُ, inf n. عَيْنٌ, The well had in it much water. (TA.) And حَفَرْتُ حَتَّى عِنْتُ (assumed tropical:) I dug until I reached the springs, or sources: (S, TA:) and in like manner one says, المَآءَ أَعْيَنْتُ [I reached the water]: (S:) or, accord, to the T, one say, حَفَرَ الحَافِرُ فَأَعْيَنَ and أَعَانَ. meaning [The digger dug,] and reached the springs, or sources. (TA.) عَيِنَ, (K,) inf. n. عَيَنٌ, (S, * K, [not, as in the CK, with the ى quiescent.]) and عِيْنَةٌ, (Lh, * K.) [He was wide in the eye: or large and wide therein: (see أَعْيَنُ:) or] he was large in the black of the eye, with width [of the eye itself]. (K.)

    عيّن اللّْؤْلُؤَةَ

    2. عيّن اللّْؤْلُؤَةَ (assumed tropical:) He bored, perforated, or pierced, the pearl; (S, K, TA;) as though he made to it an eye. (TA.) عيّن القِرْبَةَ He poured water into the skin in order that the stitchholes might become closed (S, K, TA) by swelling, (S,) it being new: and سَرَّبَهَا [q. v.] signifies the same, as mentioned by As, (TA.) تَعْيِينُ الشَّئِْ signifies (assumed tropical:) The individuating of a thing, or particularizing it; i. e. the distinguishing it from the generality, or aggregate. (S, Msb, TA) عيّنهُ means (assumed tropical:) He individuated it, &c.: and he particularized, or specified, it by words; mentioned it particularly, or specially. And عيّن لَه كَذَا (assumed tropical:) He appointed, or prescribed, for him, or he assigned to him, particularly, such a thing: and عيّن عَلَيْهِ كَذَا He appointed against him, or imposed upon him, particularly, such a thing]. You say, عَيَّنْتُ المَالَ لِزَيْدٍ (assumed tropical:) I assigned the property particularly, or specially, to Zeyd. (Msb.) And أَتَيْتُ فُلَانًا فَمَا عَيَّنَ لِى بِشَئٍْ and مَا عَيَّنَنِىبِشَئٍْ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [I came to such a one,] and he did not give me anything: (Lh, TA:) or, as some say, he did not direct me to anything. (TA.) And عَيَّنَ عَلَى السَّارِقِ (assumed tropical:) He distinguished, or singled out, the thief from among the suspected persons: or, as some say, he manifested against the thief his theft. (TA.) And عَيَّنْتُ النِّيَّةَ فِى الصَّوْمِ (assumed tropical:) I purposed the performance of a particular fast. (Msb.) عيّن فُلَانًا He told such a one to his face of his vices, or faults, or the like. (I. h, S, K.) عيّن الحَرْبَ بَيْنَنَا i. q. أَدَارَهَا [He, or it, stirred war, or conflict, or the war or conflicet, between us, or among us]: so in the K in the L, ادرها [perhaps for أَدَرَّهَا, but more probably, I think, for أَدَارَهَا]. (TA.) عيّن الشَّجَرُ The trees became beautiful and bright, and blossomed. (K. TA.) عيّن الرَّجُلُ The man took [or bought] بِالعِينَةِ i. e. السَّلَفِ [meaning for payment in advance, accord. to all the explanations that I find of السَّلَف as used in buying and selling; but accord to the TK, upon credit, i. e. for payment at a future period, agreeably with an explanation of عِينّة in the A and Mgh; see this word in its place, and see also 8]: or he so gave [or sold]. (K.) And (K) عيّن التَّاجِرُ, (Msb, K, TA,) accord. to Az, (Msb, Ta) The merchant, or trader, sold (Msb, K, Ta) to a man (Msb, TA) a commodity for a certain price to be paid at a certain period, and the bought if of him for less than that price (Msb, K, TA) with ready money. (Msb.) عيّن العَيْنَ, (K, TA,) inf. n. تَعْيِينٌ, (TA,) He wrote the letter ع (K, TA.) One says, عيَّن عَيْنًا حَسَنَةً He made [or wrote] a beautiful ع. (Th, TA.)

    عَايَنْتُهُ

    3. عَايَنْتُهُ, inf. n. عيَانٌ, (S, Msb) and مُعَايَنَةٌ, (Msb), I saw it [or him] with my eye [or eyes, ocularly, or before my eyes]; (S;) [or I viewed with my eye, and faced, or confronted, him, or it; for] المُعَايَنَةُ signifies the viewing with the eye, and facing, or confronting. (TA.) [See also 5.] You say, لَقِيَهُ عِيَانًا, thus in copies of the K; but in some copies عِيَنَةً, with fet-h to the second and third letters and with kesr to the ع, and thus accord. to Lh, (TA,) i. e. [He met him] eye to eye (مُعَايَنَةً), [or face to face,] not doubting of his seeing him. (K,TA.) See also 1. مُعَايَنَةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) The dealing in buying and selling with ready money] which is termed عَيْنٌ]. (KL.) See also عَيْنٌ, in the third quarter of the paragraph.

    إَعَْينَ

    4: see 1, the former half: and last sentence but one, in three places. مَا أَعْيَنَهُ How evil eyed is he! (K,*TK.)

    تعيّنهُ

    5. تعيّنهُ He saw him,, or it; or he looked, looked at or towards, [or eyed,] trying whether he could see, him, or it; syn. أَبْصَرَهُ. (TA.) He saw him (a man) with certainty. (K.) [See also 3.] تعيّن المَالَ, and الإِبَلَ: see 1, former half, in two place. تعيّن, said of a man, also signifies He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course, by reason of shame,(تَشَوَّرَ, for which تَشَوَّهَ is erroneously put in the copies of the K, TA,) or, accord. to some copies, تَشوّس [app. as syn. with or perhaps a mistake for, تشاوس, meaning he contracted his eye to look], (TK,) and acted leisurely, or waited, or waited patiently, to smite a thing with his [evil] eye. (K, TA.) Said of a skin, (assumed tropical:) It had thin circles, or rings, or round places, [likened to eyes,] (Fr,S,TA,) rendering it faulty: (S:) or, said of a water-skin, it was, or became, thin by reason of oldness: (TA:) [or it became lacerated, or worn in holes; as is shown by what here follows.] One says also, تَعَيَّنَتْ أَخْفَافُ الأِبِلِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) The feet of the camels became lacerated [in the soles], or worn in holes, or blistered; like the water-skin of which one says تعيّن. (IAar, TA.) تعيّن also signifies (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, clear, or distinct. (KL.) And (assumed tropical:) It was or became, individuated, or particularized; i. e., distinguished from the generality, or aggregate. (KL,) [Thus signifying, it is quasi-pass. of عَيَّنَهُ. Hence it means (assumed tropical:) It had, or assumed, the quality of individuality. And (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, particularized. or specified, by words; mentioned particularly, or specially. And تعيّن لَهُ It was appointed, or prescribed, for him, or was assigned to him, particularly or peculiarly. And تعيّن عَلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) It was appointed against him, upon him, particularly. And hence.] one says, تعيّن عَلَيْهِ الشَّئْ, meaning لَزِمَهُ بِعَيْنِهِ, [i. e.: The thing was, or became, incumbent, or obligatory, on him in particular] (S, K. See also the next paragraph.

    إِعْتَيَنَ

    8: see 1, in four places. اعتان الشَّئْ (assumed tropical:) He took the عَيْن of the thing, (S,) the choice,or best, thereof. (S, TA.) [See also 8 in art. عون]) And He bought the thing upon credit, for payment at a future time: (S, Msb, KL, TA:] [i.e.] اعتان signifies he took upon credit, for payment at a future time; (Mgh: [in which is expl. by the words أَخَذَ بِالعِينةِ, and in which عِينَة in a sale is expl. as meaning نَسِيْئَة;]) and so تعيّن; (KL;) [but Mtr says,] the saying تَعَيّنْ عَلَىّٰ حَرِيرًا as meaning اشْتَرِهْ بِبَيْعِ العِينَةِ I have not found. (Mgh,) [See also عيّن الرَّجُلُ expl. as meaning “ The man took بِالعينَةِ. ”]

    عَيْنٌ

    عَيْنٌ is a homonym, applying to various things (Msb:) in the K. forty-seven meanings are assigned to it; but it is said by MF that its meanings exceed a hundred; those occurring in the Kur-án are seventeen. (TA.,) By that which is app. its primary application, and which is by many affirmed to be so,(TA,) العَيْنُ signifies The eye: the organ of sight: (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA [in the S expl. by حَاسَّةُ الرُّؤْيَةِ, evidently used in this sense; in the Mgh, by المُبْصِرَةُ; in the Msb and K, by البَاصِرَةُ; and in a mater place in the K. by حَاسَّةُ الرُّؤْيَة, app. as meaning the sense of sight;]) also denoted [emphatically] by the term الجَارِحَةُ [i. e. the organ]; (TA;) it is that with which the looker sees: (ISk, TA;) and is of a human being and of any other animal: (TA;) it is of the fem. gender; (S, K:) and the pl. [of mult.] as عُيُونٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) also pronounced عُيونٌ, (K, [in which وَتُكْسَرُ, immediately following عُيُونٌ, has been erroneously supposed by Golius and Freytag to relate to the sing.,]) and [of pause أَعْيَانٌ and أَعْيُنٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) which last is asserted by Lh to be sometimes a pl. of mult., as it is in the Kur vii. [178 and] 194; (TA.) and pl. pl. أَعْيُنَاتٌ: (K:) the dim. is عُيَيْنَةٌ, (S.) Hence the saying in a trad. of 'Alee, قَاسَ عَيْنًا بِبَيْضَةٍ جَعَلَ عَلَيْهَا خُطُوطًا [He measured the reach of an eye by means of an egg upon which he made lines]. (Mgh.) And [hence also] one says, بِعَيْنٍ مَّا أَرَيَنَّكَ [lit. With some eye I will assuredly see thee]: it is said to one whom you send, and require to be quick; and means (assumed tropical:) pause not for anything, for it is as though I were looking at thee. (TA. [See also art. رأى.]) And لَقِيتُهُ عَيْنَ عُنَّةٍ [I met him so that] I saw him with [or before] my eye, he not seeing me. (S, TA.) [And رَأَيْتُهُ عَيْنَ عُنَّةٍ or عُنَّةَ, which see in art. عن. And أَعْطَيْتُهُ عَيْنَ عُنَّةَ and عُنَّة, which also see in art. عن.] And رَأَيْتُهُ عَرْضَ عَيْنٍ I saw him, or it, obviously; nearly. (TA, voce عَرْضٌ, q. v.) And هَا هُوَ عَرْضُ عَيْنٍ [or عَرْضَ عَيْنٍ?] i. e. [Lo, he, or it, is] near [before thee]: and in like manner, هُوَ مِنِّى عَيْنُ عُنَّةٍ [or عَيْنَ عُنَّةٍ? i. e. He is near before me]. (K.) And لَقِيتُهُ أَوَّلَ عَيْنٍ, (S, K,) and أَوَّلَ ذِى عَيْنٍ and عَائِنَةٍ, (TA,) I met him, or it, the first thing: (S, K, TA:) and before every [other] thing; as also أَوَّلَ عَائِنَةٍ and أَدْنَى عَائِنَةٍ: (S:) or this last means the nearest thing perceived by the eye. (TA.) And فَعَلْتُ ذَاكَ عَمْدَ عَيْنٍ and عَمْدًا عَلَى عَيْنٍ (assumed tropical:) I did that purposely, with seriousness, or earnestness, and certainty: (S:) or صَنَعَ ذٰلِكَ عَلَى عَيْنٍ and عَلَى عَيْنَيْنِ, (K, TA,) and عَمْدَ عَيْنٍ and عَمْدَ عَيْنَيْنِ, (K,) or عَلَى عَمْدِ عَيْنٍ and عَلَى عَمْدِ عَيْنَيْنِ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He did that purposely, (Lh, K, TA,) with seriousness, or earnestness, and certainty. (K.) And هُوَ عَبْدُ عَيْنٍ (tropical:) He is like the slave to thee as long as thou seest him, (S, K, * TA,) but not when thou art absent; and so هُوَ عَبْدُ العَيْنِ: (S:) or he is a man who pretends, or feigns, to thee, his doing that which he does not perform: (TA:) and (K, TA) in this sense, (TA,) one says also, هُوَ صَدِيقُ عَيْنٍ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [He is a friend, or a true friend,] as long as thou seest him: (K, TA:) and هُوَ أَخُو عَيْنٍ (assumed tropical:) He is one who acts as a friend hypocritically with thee. (TA.) أَنْتَ عَلَى عَيْنِى is said in relation to honouring and protecting: (S, K, TA:) [accordingly I would render it (tropical:) Thou art entitled to be honoured and protected by me above my eye: for the eye is esteemed the most excellent of the organs, (as is said in this art. in the TA,) and it is that which most needs protection:] أَنْتَ عَلَى رَأْسِى is said in relation to honouring only. (TA.) And the Arabs say, عَلَى عَيْنِى قَصَدْتُ زَيْدًا, meaning thereby the regarding with solicitude mixed with fear [so that I would render it (assumed tropical:) As one to be regarded with solicitude mixed with fear above my eye I made Zeyd the object to which my mind was directed]. (TA.) [See another ex. of عَلَى عَيْنِى (in which it cannot be rendered as above) in a later part of this paragraph.] نَعِمَ ٱللّٰهُ بِكَ عَيْنًا [in the CK نَعَّمَ, which is wrong,] means the same as أَنْعَمَهَا. (K. [See both in art. نعم.]) قُرَّةُ العَيْنِ [signifying مَا قَرَّتْ بِهِ العَيْنُ, as expl. in the M and K in art. قر, i. e. That by which, or in consequence of which, the eye becomes cool, or refrigerated, or refreshed, &c.,] is a phrase used as meaning (assumed tropical:) A man's child or offspring. (TA.) فَقَأَ عَيْنَهُ [properly signifying He put out his eye, or blinded it, &c.,] means [sometimes] (tropical:) he struck him; or struck him vehemently with a broad thing, or with anything; or slapped him with his hand: (صَكَّهُ:) or he was rough, rude, or ungentle, to him in speech. (TA.) اَلَّذِى فِيهِ عَيْنَاكَ means Thy head. (TA. [There mentioned preceded by لاتحرمَن: thus dubiously, and perhaps incorrectly, written. What is means, or should be, I know not.]) عَيْنُ الثَّوْرِ (assumed tropical:) (The eye of the Bull;] the great red star [a] that is upon the southern eye of Taurus, and also [more commonly] called الدَّبَرَانُ. (Kzw, Descr. of Taurus.) [And عَيْنُ الرَّامِى (assumed tropical:) The eye of Sagittarius; app. the two stars v, on the eye thereof.] عَيْنُ البَقَرِ (assumed tropical:) [The buphthalmum, or ox-eye;] the [plant called] بَهَار [q. v.]. (S in art. بهر.) And عُيُونُ البَقَرِ (tropical:) A sort of grapes, (S, K, TA,) black, (K, TA,) but not intensely so, large in the berries, (TA,) and round, (K, TA,) which are converted into raisins, and are not very sweet: so says AHn: thus called as being likened to the eyes of the animals termed بَقَر: (TA:) they are found in Syria: (S:) or said by some to be peculiar to Syria. (TA.) And Certain black إِجَّاص [or plums]: (K, TA:) thus called for the same reason. (TA.) عَيْنُ الهِرِّ (assumed tropical:) [Cat's-eye;] a certain stone, well known, of no utility. (TA.) [فَتَحَ هَيْنَ النَّارِ means (assumed tropical:) He made an opening in the live coals of the fire, that had become compacted; in order that it might burn up well. (See 1 in art. سخو and سخى.)] And عَيْنٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) The عَيْن [i. e. eye] of the needle: such as is narrow is termed عَيْنُ صَفِيَّة [in which the latter word is app. a proper name, and, as such and of the fem. gender, imperfectly decl., i. e., in this case, written صَفِيَّةَ]. (TA.) Also, as being likened to the organ [of sight] in form, or appearance, (tropical:) A [small round hole or] place of perforation in a [leathern water-bag such as is called] مَزَادَة. (TA.) And (tropical:) Thin circles, or rings, or round places, in a skin, (S, K, TA,) which are a fault therein, (S, TA,) like أَعْيُن [or eyes; or one of such thin circles &c.]; being likened to the organ [of sight] in form. (TA.) [See 10.] And (K) (tropical:) A fault, or defect, (K, TA,) of this description, in a skin. (TA.) And (tropical:) The small hollow or cavity of the knee; (S, K; in [some of] the copies of the latter of which, الرَّكِيَّة is erroneously put for الرُّكْبَة; TA;) likened to the socket of the eye: (TA:) each knee has عَيْنَانِ [i. e. two small hollows or cavities, the articular depressions for the condyles of the femur], in the fore part thereof, at [the joint of] the سَاق. (S, TA.) And (tropical:) The piece of skin [or small leathern receptacle] in which are put the بُنْدُق [or bullets] (K, TA) that are shot from the قَوْس [app. meaning the large kind of cross-bow, called balista, or ballista]: (K, * TA:) likened to the organ [of sight] in form. (TA.) [In the B, accord. to the TA, it is also expl. as meaning the سنام: but this, I think, is most probably a mistranscription for سَام (q. v.) as signifying (assumed tropical:) The hollow, or cavity, in the ground, thus called, in which water remains, or stagnates, and collects.] And (tropical:) The place [or aperture] whence the water of a قَنَاة [i. e. pipe, or the like,] pours forth: (K, TA:) as being likened to the organ [of sight] because of the water that is in it. (TA.) And, (K, TA,) for the same reason, (TA,) (tropical:) The place whence issues the water of a well. (TA.) And, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) for the same reason, as is said by Er-Rághib, (TA,) (tropical:) The عَيْن, (S, Msb,) or source, or spring, (K, TA,) of water, (S, Msb, K, TA,) that wells forth from the earth, or ground, and runs: (TA:) [and accord. to the Msb, it app. signifies a running spring:] of the fem. gender: (TA:) pl. عُيُونٌ and أَعْيُنٌ, (Msb, K,) and accord. to ISk, sometimes the Arabs said, as a pl. thereof, أَعْيَانٌ, but this is rare. (Msb.) Hence a saying, in a trad., cited and expl. voce سَاهِرٌ. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) Abundance of water of a well. (TA.) And A drop of water. (TA.) عَيْنُ المَآءِ, [originally signifying “ the source of water, ”] accord. to Th, means (assumed tropical:) Life for men; thus in the following verse: (assumed tropical:) [Those, life for men is among them; and with them are the means of safety, and the place of removal, from fear]: accord. to the A, عَيْنُ المَآءِ فِيهِمْ means good, or means of attaining good, and provision of corn, or abundance of the produce of the earth, are among them. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) The عَيْن [meaning eye, or bud, (thus called in the present day,)] of a tree. (Es-Subkee, TA.) [And (tropical:) Sprouting herbage; as being likened to the eye or eyes:] one says, نَظَرَتِ البِلَادُ بِعَيْنٍ or بِعَيْنَيْنِ [lit. (tropical:) The lands looked with an eye or with two eyes], meaning, had their herbage come forth: (K:) or it is said when their herbage comes forth: or, as in the A, when that which cattle depasture comes forth without [as yet] becoming firm [in the ground, or firmly rooted]: taken from the saying of the Arabs, إِذَا سَقَطَتِ الجَبْهَةُ نَظَرَتِ الأَرْضُ بِإِحْدَى عَيْنَيْهَا فَإِذَا سَقَطَتِ الصَّرْفَةُ نَظَرَتْ بِهِمَا جَمِيعًا (assumed tropical:) [lit. When El-Jebheh (the 10th Mansion of the Moon) sets aurorally (i. e. about the 11th of Feb., O. S.), the land looks with one of its eyes; the, when Es-Sarfeh (the 12th Mansion) sets aurorally (about the 9th of March), it looks with both of them]. (TA. [See also art. نظر.]) عَيْنٌ also, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) as being likened to the organ of sight, (TA,) signifies (tropical:) A spy; and ذُو العُيَيْنَتَيْنِ [in the CK ذُو العَيْنَتَيْنِ], in like manner, signifies the spy, (S, K, TA,) and ذُو العُوَيْنَتَيْنِ likewise, and ذُو العَيْنَيْنِ: (TA:) he who looks for a people, or party: (M, TA:) the watcher, or observer; (S, * K, * TA;) or the scout: (S, * Msb, K, * TA:) masc. and fem.: (M, TA:) accord. to the opinion of ISd, made by some to accord with a part [i. e. the eye], and therefore fem.; and by some, to accord with the whole [person], and therefore masc.: (TA:) pl. عُيُونٌ and أَعْيُنٌ, and, accord. to ISk, sometimes أَعْيَانٌ. (Msb.) And i. q. مُكَاشِفٌ [app. as meaning (assumed tropical:) A discoverer, or revealer, of tidings &c.]. (Es-Subkee, TA.) [And (assumed tropical:) An eye as meaning a look, i. e. an act of looking: and hence, a stroke of an evil eye: or, simply, an evil eye: a meaning of frequent occurrence.] أَصَابَتْ فُلَانًا عَيْنٌ (assumed tropical:) [An evil eye smote such a one] is said of a person when an enemy or an envier has looked at him and produced such an effect upon him that he has fallen sick in consequence thereof (TA.) [عَيْنُ الكَمَالِ is applied to an eye believed to have the power of killing by its glance: see an ex. voce فَقَأَ.] And (assumed tropical:) Sight with the eye [or before the eyes; or ocular view]: thus in the saying, لَا أَطْلُبُ أَثَرًا بَعْدَ عَيْنٍ (assumed tropical:) [I will not seek a trace, or vestige, (or, as we rather say in English, a shadow,) after an ocular view]: (S, TA:) or the meaning is, after suffering a reality, or substance, to escape me: (Har pp. 120 and 174: [this latter rendering being agreeable with explanations of عَيْنٌ which will be found in a later part of this paragraph:]) i. e. I will not leave the thing when I see it ocularly, and seek the trace or vestige, thereof, after its [the thing's] disappearing from me: and the origin of it was the fact that a man saw the slayer of his brother, and when he desired to slay him, he [the latter] said, “ I will ransom myself with a hundred she-camels; ” whereupon he [the other] said, لَسْتُ أَطْلُبُ أَثَرًا بَعْدَ عَيْنٍ; and slew him: (TA:) it is a prov., thus, or, as some relate it, لَا تَطْلُبْ. (Har p. 120.) And (assumed tropical:) Look, or view. (K, TA.) It is said in the Kur [xx. 40], وَالتُصْنَعَ عَلَى عَيْنِى, (S, TA,) and it has been expl. as there having this meaning [i. e. (assumed tropical:) And this I did that thou mightest be reared and nourished in my view], as in the B; or, as Th says, that thou mightest be reared where I should see thee: (TA:) or the meaning is, (assumed tropical:) in my watch, or guard, (Bd, * Jel,) and my keeping, or protection. (Jel. [It is implied by the context in the S, that عَلَى عَيْنِى is said in this instance in relation to honouring and protecting, as it is in a phrase mentioned in the first quarter of this paragraph; but my rendering of it there is obviously inapplicable here. See also 1 in art. صنع.]) And in like manner it has been expl. as used in the Kur [xi. 39], وَٱصْنَعِ ٱلْفُلْكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا (assumed tropical:) [And make thou the ark in our view]. (TA.) [In like manner, also,] فَأْتُوا بِهِ عَلَى أَعْيُنِ ٱلنَّاسِ, in the Kur [xxi. 62], means عَلَى مَنْظَرِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) [i. e. Then bring ye him in the view of the people; منظر being here evidently an inf. n.]; (B, TA:) or [bring ye him] openly, or conspicuously. (Jel.) And (assumed tropical:) The مَنْظَر [as meaning aspect, or outward appearance], (S, K,) and شَاهِد [meaning the same as being an evidence of the intrinsic qualities], (S,) of a man. (S, K.) So in the saying of El-Hajjáj to El-Hasan [ElBasree, when he (the former) had asked مَا أَمَدُكَ “ What was the time of thy birth? ” and the latter had answered (see أَمَدٌ)], لَعَيْنُكَ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ أَمَدِكَ (assumed tropical:) [Verily thy aspect is greater than thy age], أَمَدِكَ meaning سِنِّكَ. (S.) And it is said in a prov., (assumed tropical:) [Verily the fleet and excellent horse, his aspect is (equivalent to) the examination of his teeth]: (S, TA: [accord. to the latter, عَيْنُهُ meaning شَاهِدُهُ:]) i. e. his external appearance renders it needless for thee to try him and to examine his teeth. (S and K in art. فر, q. v.) Also, [by a synecdoche, as when it means “ a spy, ”] (assumed tropical:) A human being: (K:) and any one: (S, K:) [in which sense, as when it means “ a spy, ” it may be masc. or fem.:] and human beings: (S:) or a company [of people]; (K;) as also عَيَنٌ: (S, K:) and the people of a house or dwelling: (K:) and so عَيَنٌ; (S, K;) and the people of a town or country; as also عَيَنٌ. (K.) One says, مَا بِهَا عَيْنٌ (assumed tropical:) There is not in it any one; (S, K, TA;) [i. e. بِالدَّارِ in the house, or dwelling;] as also عَيَنٌ, (TA,) and عَائِنٌ, (S, TA,) and عَائِنَةٌ: (TA:) and مَا بِهَا عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ [virtually meaning the same, but fit. There is not in it an eye twinkling]. (TA.) And مَا رَأَيْتُ ثَمَّ عَائِنَةً i. e. (assumed tropical:) [I was not there] a human being. (TA.) And بَلَدٌ قَلِيلُ العَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [A town, or country,] having few human beings, (S.) or few people. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) A lord, chief, or chief personage: (K, TA:) in [some of] the copies of the K, السدّ or الشدّ is erroneously put for السَّيِّدُ: (TA:) the great, or great and noble, person of a people or party: (K, TA:) and the head, chief, or commander, of an army: (TA:) the pl. is أَعْيَانٌ: (TA:) which signifies [lords, chiefs, or chief personages: &c.: and] the eminent, or high-born, or noble, individuals (S, Mgh, Msb, TA) of a people, or party, (S, Mgh,) or of men; (Msb;) and the most excellent persons. (TA.) Hence, (Mgh, Msb,) as pl. of عَيْنٌ, (K,) أَعْيَانٌ signifies also ا Brothers from the same father and mother: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) this brotherhood is termed مُعَايَنَةٌ: (S, K:) and أَوْلَادُ الأَعْيَانِ means the sons of the same father and mother. (Msb in art. عل. [See عَلَّةٌ.]) Also. the sing., (assumed tropical:) The choice, or best, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) of a thing, (S, K,) or of goods, or household-goods, or furniture and utensils, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) and of camels, or cattle, or other property, (TA,) and so عِينَةٌ, (S, K, TA,) of which the pl. is عِيَنٌ, (TA,) like عِيمَةٌ: (S:) عِينَةُ الخَيْلِ signifies (assumed tropical:) the fleet and excellent of horses. (Lh, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Highly prized, in much request, or excellent. (TA.) And, as applied to a deenár, (assumed tropical:) Outweighing, so that the balance inclines with it. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) i. q. مَالٌ, (K, TA,) [i. e. Property, or such as consists of camels or cattle,] when of a choice. or of the best, sort. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Such as is ready, or at hand, (K, TA,) present, (TA,) or within one's power, or reach, (S, TA,) of property. (S, K, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Anything present, or ready, (K, TA,) found before one. (TA.) You say, بِعْتُهُ عَيْنًا بِعَيْنٍ (assumed tropical:) I sold it ready merchandise for ready money. (Msb.) [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) Ready money; cash: or simply money: syn. نَقْدٌ: (T, Mgh, Msb, TA:) not عَرْضٌ [q. v.]: (Mgh:) and sometimes, دَرَاهِمُ. (Msb.) So in the saying عَيْنٌ غَيْرُ دَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [Ready money, not debt]. (TA.) And [hence also] one says, اِشْتَرَيْتَ بِالدَّيْنِ أَوْ بِالعَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [Didst thou buy on credit or with ready money?]. (Msb.) And ا A present gift. (Mgh, TA.) So in the saying (Mgh, TA) of a rájiz (TA) satirizing a man, (Mgh,) [And his present gift is a thing not hoped for, like the unseen debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor:] meaning, his present gift is like the absent that is not hoped for. (Mgh, TA.) [And hence, app.,] أَصَابَتْهُ عَيْنٌ مِنْ عُيُونِ ٱللّٰهِ, occurring in a trad., means, خَاصَّةٌ مِنْ خَوَاصِّ ٱللّٰهِ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) A particular, or special, gift of God betided him]. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) A deenár: (S, K:) or deenárs; (Az, TA;) [i. e.] coined gold; (Mgh, Msb; *) different from وَرِقٌ [which signifies “ coined silver or “ dirhems ”]. (Mgh.) They said, عَلَيْهِ مِائَةٌ عَيْنًا (assumed tropical:) [On him is incumbent the payment of a hundred deenars]: but properly one should say عَيْنٌ, because it is identical with what precedes it (Sb, TA.) And The half of a dánik [app. deducted] from seven deenars: (K, TA:) mentioned by Az. (TA.) And (tropical:) Gold, (K, TA,) in a general sense; as being likened to the organ [of sight], in that the former is the most excellent of the metals, like as the latter is the most excellence of the organs. (TA.) And (tropical:) The sun itself; (A, K, TA;) as being likened to the organ [of sight], because the former is the most noble of the stars, like as the latter is the most noble of the organs. (TA:) or (K, TA) the عَيْن of the sun; (S, Msb, TA;) i. e. the شُعَاع thereof; (K, TA,) [meaning its rays, or beams,] upon which the eye will act remain fixed: (TA:) or [more commonly] the عَيْن means the قُرْص [q. v., that is disk] of the sun. (KL.) [Using it in the first of these senses.] one says, طَلَعَتِ العَيْنُ (tropical:) [The sun rose], and غَابَتِ العَيْنُ [The sun set]. (Lh, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) A thing's نَفْس [i. e. its self]; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) and its ذَات [which means the same]; (K, TA:) and its شَخْص, which means nearly, or rather exactly, the same as its ذات; (TA;) [and likewise a man's person, as does also عِيَانٌ, (see exs. in Har pp. 20 and 45,) and the material substance of a thing;] and its أَصْل [as meaning its essence, or constituent substance]: (TA:) pl. أَعْيَانٌ, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) not أَعْيُنٌ nor عُيُونٌ. (Mgh, TA.) One says, هُوَ هُوَ عَيْنًا and هُوَ هُوَ بِعَيْنِهِ (assumed tropical:) (It is it itself, or he is he himself]: (S, TA:) بِ when prefixed to عَيْن, [thus] used as a corroborative, being redundant. (Mughnee in art. بِ.) And لَا آخُذُ إِلَّا دِرْهَمِى بِعَيْنِهِ (assumed tropical:) [I will not take aught save my dirhem itself]. (S.) And أَخَذْتُ مَالِى بِعَيْنِهِ (assumed tropical:) I took my property itself. (Msb.) And هذِهِ أَعْيَانُ دَرَاهِمِكَ (Lh, TA) and دَرَاهِمُكَ بِأَعْيَانِهَا (Lh, Mgh, * Msb, TA) (assumed tropical:) These are thy dirhems themselves]. And هُمْ إِخْوَتُكَ بِأَعْيَانِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) [They are thy brothers themselves]. (Msb.) And عَيْنُ الرِّبَا occurs in a trad. as meaning (assumed tropical:) Usury itself. (TA.) [مَوْضِعٌ بِعَيْنِهِ, a phrase very frequently occurring in the L and TA &c., means (assumed tropical:) A certain, or particular, place: and in a similar manner بِعَيْنِهِ is used after the mention of a plant &c.] One says also جَآءَ بِالأَمْرِ مِنْ عَيْنٍ صَافِيَةٍ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [He brought forth, brought to light, or declared, the affair] from its very essence. (TA.) And بِالحَقِّ بِعَيْنِهِ means (assumed tropical:) With truth, clearly and manifestly. (TA.) [In grammar, اِسْمُ عَيْنٍ means (assumed tropical:) A real substantive; the name of a real thing; also termed اِسْمُ ذَاتٍ; and sometimes termed عَيْنٌ alone: opposed to اِسْمُ مَعْنًى i. e. an ideal substantive.] عَيْنٌ ثَاقِبَةٌ means (assumed tropical:) Certain, or sure, news or information. (A and TA in art. ثقب.) And العَيْنُ [sometimes] signifies (assumed tropical:) Knowledge; [or rather sure, or certain, and manifest, knowledge;] which is also termed عَيْنُ اليَقِينِ. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Might (العِزُّ). (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Health and safety (العَافِيَةُ). (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Thirst; and so الغَيْنُ. (TA in art. غين.) And (assumed tropical:) The صُورَة [which generally means form, or the like: but it has many other significations; one of which is essence, before mentioned as a meaning of عَيْنٌ]. (TA.) And it signifies also النَّاحِيَةٌ [app. as meaning (assumed tropical:) The part, or point, towards which one directs himself]: (K, TA:) or, accord. to some, particularly that of the قِبْلَة [i. e. that towards which one directs his face in prayer]: (TA:) [or] it signifies also the true direction of the قِبْلَة: (K, TA:) or the part that is on the right of the قِبْلَة of El-'Irák: [whence] one says, نَشَأَتِ السَّحَابَةُ مِنْ قِبَلِ العَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [The cloud rose from the part on the right of the قبلة of El- 'Irák]: (S: [see also خَسْفٌ:]) or this means, from the direction of the قبلة of El-'Irak; and the Arabs say that this scarcely ever, or never, breaks its promise [of giving rain]: when it rises from the direction of the sea, and then goes northward, one says عَيْنٌ غُدَيْقَةٌ; and this is usually most disposed to rain: (TA:) غُدَيْقَة is a dim. of magnification, meaning abounding with water. (TA in art. غدق.) Also (assumed tropical:) The clouds (سَحَاب) that have come from the direction of the قِبْلَة: (K, * TA:) or, from the direction of the قبلة of El- 'Irák: or, from the right thereof: (K, TA:) and it is said in the B to signify [simply] السَّحَابُ [the clouds]; (TA;) and so الغَيْنُ. (TA in art. غين.) And, accord. to Th, مَطَرُ العَيْنِ signifies (assumed tropical:) The rain that is from the direction of the قِبْلَة: or, from the direction of the قبلة of El-'Irák: or, from the right thereof. (TA.) The saying of the Arabs مُطِرْنَا بِالعَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [We were, or have been, rained upon by the عين] is allowed by some, but disapproved by others. (TA.) And [hence, app.,] (assumed tropical:) The rain that continues during some days, (S, K, TA,) some say five, and some say six, or more, (TA,) without clearing away. (S, K, TA.) عَيْنٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) Usury; syn. رِبًا; (K, TA; [see also عَيْنُ الرِّبَا above;]) and so عِينَةٌ. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) An inclining in the balance; (Kh, Mgh, K, TA;) said to be the case in which one of the two scales thereof outweighs the other: (TA:) one says, فِى المِيزَانِ عَيْنٌ, meaning (assumed tropical:) In the balance is an unevenness; (S, TA;) a little inclining in the tongue thereof: and the word is fem. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) The tongue [or cock, itself,] of the balance. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) A scale of a balance; i. e. either of the two scales thereof. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) A small بَيْت [meaning partition, or part divided from the rest,] in a chest. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) A مِحَشَّة [app. meaning a thing in which حَشِيش, or dry herbage, is put]. (TA.) [And (assumed tropical:) Either half, or one side, of a خُرْج, or pair of saddle-bags.] And A certain bird, (K, TA,) yellow in the belly, أَخْضَر [generally in a case of this kind meaning of a dingy, or dark, ash-colour or dust-colour] in the back; of the size of the [species of collared turtle-dove called] قُمْرِىّ. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) [The letter ع;] one of the letters of the alphabet, (S, K,) of those termed حَلْقِيَّة and مَهْجُورَة. (K. [See art. ع.]) And (assumed tropical:) The middle [radical letter] of a word [of the triliteral-radical class; the root of such a word being represented by فعل]. (TA.) In the calculation by means of the letters ا, ب, ج, د, &c., it denotes Seventy. (TA.)

    عِينٌ

    عِينٌ, originally عُيْنٌ, pl. of أَعْيَنُ [q. v.]: (S, K: *) and also, (as a contraction of عُيُنٌ, IB, TA,) pl. of عِيَانٌ: (AA, S, IB:) [and of عَيُونٌ.]

    عَيَنٌ

    عَيَنٌ The quality denoted by the epithet أَعْيَنُ [q. v.; i. e. width in the eye; &c.]; (S;) and so عِينَةٌ. (Lh, TA.) [See also 1, last sentence; where both are mentioned as inf. ns.] See also عَيْنٌ, in the third quarter of the paragraph, in four places. And see the paragraph here following.

    عِينَةٌ

    عِينَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph. Also The part that surrounds the eye of a ewe; (K, TA;) like the مَحْجِر of a human being. (TA.) And Goodly appearance: so in the saying, هٰذَا ثَوْبُ عِينَةٍ [This is a garment of goodly appearance]. (S, K) See also عَيْنٌ, latter half, in three places. Also i. q. سَلَفٌ [in buying and selling; i. e. Any money, or property, paid in advance, or beforehand, as the price of a commodity for which the seller has become responsible and which one has bought on description: or payment for a commodity to be delivered at a certain future period with something additional to the equivalent of the current price at the time of such payment: or a sort of sale in which the price is paid in advance, and the commodity is withheld, on the condition of description, to a certain future period: but it seems to be in most cases used in one or another of the senses expl. in what here follows]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA.) And one says, بَاعَهُ بِعِينَةٍ meaning بِنَسِيْئَةٍ [i. e. He sold it upon credit, for payment at a future time]: (A, Mgh: [see 8:]) or, as some say, [and more commonly,] العِينَةُ is the buying what one has sold for less than that for which one has sold it: and العَيَنُ signifies the same: (Mgh:) or, accord. to Az, the selling a commodity for a certain price to be paid at a certain period, and then buying it for less than that price with ready money: [see 2, last quarter:] this is unlawful when the buyer makes it a condition with the seller that he shall buy it for a certain price; but when there is no condition between them, it is allowable accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee, though forbidden by some others; and he used to call it the sister of usury: and the sale of a commodity by the purchaser [thereof upon credit] to other than the seller of it, on the spot (lit. in the sitting-place), is also termed عِينَةٌ; but is lawful by common consent: (Msb:) or it is the case of a man's coming to another man to ask of him a loan, which the latter does not desire to grant, coveting profit, which is not to be obtained by a loan, wherefore he says, “ I will sell to thee this garment for twelve dirhems upon credit, for payment at a certain time, and its value is ten [which thou mayest obtain by selling it for ready money]. ” (KT: in some copies of which the word thus expl. is [erroneously] written العَيْنِيَّةُ instead of العِينَةُ.) [See also زَرْنَقَةٌ. The word is generally held to be derived from عَيْنٌ as signifying “ ready money ” or “ ready merchandise. ”] Also The مَادَّة [meaning accession to the strength or forces] of war: (K, * TA:) used in this sense in a verse of Ibn-Mukbil [in which it is shown to be so used as being likened to the accession, to the quantity of milk, which has collected and become added to that previously left in the udder: see مَادَّةٌ]. (TA.)

    لَقِيَهُ عِيَنَةً

    لَقِيَهُ عِيَنَةً: see 3.

    عَيْنُونٌ

    عَيْنُونٌ A certain plant, found in El-Andalus, that attenuates the humours of the body, when cooked with figs. (TA.)

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

ع ي ن

العين والياء والنون أصل واحد صحيح يدل على عضو به يبصر وينظر ثم يشتق منه والأصل في جميعه ما ذكرنا

ʿ-y-n: one sound root indicating a body part by which one sees and looks; then it is derived from it, and the root in all of it is what we have mentioned.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×65

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

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.

How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

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ع

ومن أوسط الحلق مخرج العين والحاء

From the middle of the throat is the place of the ʿayn and the ḥāʾ. Sībawayh, lines 26548–26549 ↗

ومن وسط الحلق مخرج العين والحاء

From the middle of the throat is the place of the ʿayn and the ḥāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 970 ↗

ي

ومن وسط اللسان بينه وبين وسط الحنك الأعلى مخرج الجيم والشين والياء

From the middle of the tongue, between it and the middle of the upper palate, is the place of the jīm, the shīn and the yāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26553 ↗

ومن وسط اللسان بينه وبين وسط الحنك الأعلى، مخرج الجيم والشين والياء

From the middle of the tongue, between it and the middle of the upper palate, is the place of the jīm, the shīn and the yāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 974 ↗

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

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ع

Level of existence: الطبيعة · Nature

Divine Name: الباطن · The Inward (al-Bāṭin)

Lunar mansion: الثريا · al-Thurayyā (the Pleiades)

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 63825

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 9 line 2572 ↗

ي

Level of existence: السماء الأولى · The First Heaven

Divine Name: الرب · The Lord (al-Rabb)

Lunar mansion: الخرتان · al-Kharatān

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64500

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

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ع

فهي اسم لقدوم أو رحيل.

It is a name for arrival or departure.

فهي اسم للساكن في الذات التي تقوم به.

It is a name for that which dwells in the self and by which the self subsists.

فهي اسم لخبث الذات.

It is a name for the foulness of the self.

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

ي

فهي للنداء، وقد يؤكد بها.

It is for the vocative (calling), and it may be used for emphasis.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي لا يثبت كالبرق ونحوه.

It is an indication of the thing that does not remain fixed, like lightning and the like.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي يستحيا به أو يستحيا منه كالعورة.

It is an indication of the thing that causes shame, or of which one is ashamed, like the private parts.

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
Two-letter nucleus11 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterع ي

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 21201 ↗

  • عيبالعين والياء والباء أصل صحيح فيه كلمتان إحداهما العيب والأخرى العيبة وهما متباعدتان فالعيب في الشىء معروف تقول عاب فلان فلانا يعيبه ورجل عيابة وقاع فيQ 1 · L21202
  • عيثالعين والياء والثاء أصلان صحيحان متقاربان أحدهما الإسراع في الفساد والآخر تطلب الشيء على غير بصيرةL21208
  • عيجالعين والياء والجيم أصيل صحيح يدل على إقبال وإكتراث للشيء يقولون ما عجت بقول فلان أي لم أصدقه ولم أقبل عليه وما أعيج بشيء يأتيني من قبلهL21218
  • عيرالعين والياء والراء أصلان صحيحان يدل أحدهما على نتو الشيء وارتفاعه والآخر على مجيء وذهابQ 3 · L21222
  • عيسالعين والياء والسين كلمتان إحداهما لون أبيض مشرب والأخرى عسب الفحلL21245
  • عيشالعين والياء والشين أصل صحيح يدل على حياة وبقاءQ 8 · L21256
  • عيصالعين والنون والصاد أصل صحيح وهو المنبتL21266
  • عيكالعين والياء والكاف لم يذكر الخليل فيه شيئا وهو بناء جيد وإن لم يجيء فيه كلام لكن العيكتين موضع في بلاد العرب معروفL21302
  • عيلالعين واللام والياء ليس فيه إلا ما هو منقلب عن واو العيلة الفاقة والحاجةQ 2 · L21304
  • عيمالعين والياء والميم كلمة واحدة صحيحة وهي شهوة اللبنL21308
  • عينالعين والياء والنون أصل واحد صحيح يدل على عضو به يبصر وينظر ثم يشتق منه والأصل في جميعه ما ذكرناQ 65 · L21313
In the sister scriptsHebrew ע י נSyriac ܥ ܝ ܢ
Arabicع ي ن
Hebrewע י נ
Syriacܥ ܝ ܢ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩲 𐩺 𐩬
Phoenician𐤏 𐤉 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 lexiconThe excerpts supplied under al-Khalīl, al-Jawharī, al-Rāghib and Ibn Manẓūr belong to the neighbouring root ʿ-w-n (ʿawn, 'help';plausible

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

    The excerpts supplied under al-Khalīl, al-Jawharī, al-Rāghib and Ibn Manẓūr belong to the neighbouring root ʿ-w-n (ʿawn, 'help'; ʿawān, 'middle-aged'), so they cannot be used for ʿ-y-n. Al-Khalīl's view survives here only through Ibn Fāris, who quotes him defining al-ʿayn as the seeing eye of every creature with sight. Ibn Fāris traces the whole root to that organ and records the plurals aʿyun, ʿuyūn and aʿyān, with the rare aʿyināt. He treats 'the eye of the heart' as a comparison and cites the verb ʿintu al-rajul, 'I struck the man with my eye', whose object is maʿyūn. Lane, in the portion supplied, makes ʿayn the verbal noun of ʿāna, meaning to hit someone in the eye or to smite someone with the evil eye, which a tradition affirms to be real. The later senses of 'spring' and 'self, entity' are not covered by the excerpts given and are left unargued here.

    Draws on: Maqāyīs · Khalīl via Ibn Fāris · Lane · data caveat

  • Letters & soundIn al-Dabbāgh's letter meanings, ʿayn names arrival or departure, yāʾ serves for calling and emphasis, and nūn is the good that dwells in the self and kindles within it.speculative

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

    In al-Dabbāgh's letter meanings, ʿayn names arrival or departure, yāʾ serves for calling and emphasis, and nūn is the good that dwells in the self and kindles within it. The data assign yāʾ to the First Heaven in Ibn ʿArabī's correspondences; no assignment is given here for ʿayn or nūn. A reader in the spirit of Ibn Jinnī's imsās might set the deep pharyngeal ʿayn, the letter that bears this word as its own name, against the closure on the nasal nūn. That reading would be the reader's construction and is not something Ibn Jinnī says of this root. Mainstream linguistics regards such sound-meaning correspondences as suggestive at most.

    Draws on: al-Dabbāgh · Ibn ʿArabī letter data · imsās

    • Aḥmad b. al-Mubārak, al-Ibrīz (sayings of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh)
    • Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya, ch. 2 (letters)
  • Root structureIbn Fāris's ʿ-y chapter places ʿ-y-n beside the following roots: ʿ-y-sh (life and continuance), ʿ-y-b (defect), ʿ-y-th (hastening to corruption;plausible

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

    Ibn Fāris's ʿ-y chapter places ʿ-y-n beside the following roots: ʿ-y-sh (life and continuance), ʿ-y-b (defect), ʿ-y-th (hastening to corruption; searching without insight), ʿ-y-r (protrusion; coming and going), ʿ-y-j (paying attention), ʿ-y-s (a whitish colour), ʿ-y-l (need, a wāw-derived form) and ʿ-y-m (craving milk). Several of these, 'searching without baṣīra' and 'paying heed' in particular, touch on attention, but no shared nuclear meaning is claimed. Among the permutations, Ibn Fāris gives ʿ-n-y three bases: intent pursued eagerly, submission, and the appearance and emergence of a thing. He glosses n-ʿ-y as the spreading of news, above all news of a death. Y-n-ʿ, the ripening of fruit, occurs once in the Qurʾān (Q 6:99). Read side by side in the manner of Ibn Jinnī's greater derivation, 'emerging into view', 'becoming ripe and visible' and 'making known' sit near 'the seeing eye', but this is juxtaposition only.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris chapter siblings · permutations

    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, bāb al-ishtiqāq al-akbar (link not verified)
    • Q 6:99 ↗
  • Semitic kin & loanwordsThe root reflects Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-, 'eye;well attested

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

    The root reflects Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-, 'eye; spring'. Its cognates are secure: Hebrew ʿayin, Jewish Aramaic and Syriac ʿaynā, Akkadian īnu, Geʿez ʿayn, and Sabaic ʿyn. The double sense of 'eye' and 'water-source' is shared across the family and is inherited, not an Arabic innovation. The name of the letter ʿayn, like its Phoenician and Hebrew counterparts, is this same word. The Arabic word is native and not a loanword.

    Draws on: common Semitic · BDB · CAL

  • Quranic exegesisAt Q 2:60, the twelve springs (ʿaynan) that burst from the rock struck by Moses are explained by al-Ṭabarī as one for each tribe (sibṭ), so that each group knew its drinking place.plausible

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At Q 2:60, the twelve springs (ʿaynan) that burst from the rock struck by Moses are explained by al-Ṭabarī as one for each tribe (sibṭ), so that each group knew its drinking place. At Q 23:50 and 37:45, maʿīn is glossed by the exegetes as flowing water visible on the surface. Al-Zamakhsharī and al-Rāzī record the dispute over whether maʿīn is a passive form from ʿayn ('seen by the eye') or a faʿīl form from m-ʿ-n ('abundant, running'). At Q 37:48, ʿīn is read as the plural of ʿaynāʾ, meaning women with large, beautiful eyes. At Q 3:13, raʾya al-ʿayn, 'as the eye sees', is taken as actual visual perception, and al-Rāzī discusses which party saw the other as double and how.

    Draws on: al-Ṭabarī · al-Zamakhsharī · al-Rāzī · al-Rāghib

  • Philosophy & kalāmIn kalām, ʿayn (plural aʿyān) denotes a concrete existent, as in the pairing of aʿyān, substances and bodies, with aʿrāḍ, accidents.plausible

    The word as a technical term in falsafa and theology.

    In kalām, ʿayn (plural aʿyān) denotes a concrete existent, as in the pairing of aʿyān, substances and bodies, with aʿrāḍ, accidents. Some Muʿtazila held that the non-existent (al-maʿdūm) is a 'thing' with a fixed essence (dhāt thābita) before it exists. This debate is an important background to the later notion of fixed entities. In Avicenna and the falsafa tradition, fī al-aʿyān ('in concrete things', extramentally) is contrasted with fī al-adhhān ('in minds'), and ʿayn can mean a thing's very self, as in ʿayn al-shayʾ.

    Draws on: kalām · Avicenna

  • Akbarian readingFaṣṣ Ādam opens with the Real willing, by virtue of His innumerable Most Beautiful Names, to see their aʿyān, or, 'if you wish, His own ʿayn'.well attested

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    Faṣṣ Ādam opens with the Real willing, by virtue of His innumerable Most Beautiful Names, to see their aʿyān, or, 'if you wish, His own ʿayn'. He sees them in a comprehensive being (kawn jāmiʿ) that encloses the whole affair. Here ʿayn slides between 'entities' and 'the very self', and the text makes the equivalence explicit. Adam is called ʿayn jalāʾ, the very polishing of the world's mirror. The human is to the Real as insān al-ʿayn, the pupil of the eye by which looking occurs, which Ibn ʿArabī calls baṣar. The root thus carries, within a single chapter, 'self', 'eye' and the emphatic 'very'. In his wider terminology, the aʿyān thābita are the things as fixed in God's knowledge, which never themselves leave non-existence while their properties appear in the Real's being.

    Draws on: Fuṣūṣ, Faṣṣ Ādam · aʿyān thābita

    • Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, Faṣṣ Ādam
    • W. C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Knowledge (1989), ch. on the fixed entities
Neighbouring rootsThe roots that share letters with this one, as a map you can open out