فوز

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Form 1فَازَ4 senses · 2 main

maṣdarفَوْزٌmuḍāriʿيَفُوزُ

Core sense — he attained, gained, or won good; he escaped; he perished, he diedgenerated

1.1figurative · مجازhe attained it, gained it, or won it—فَازَ بِهِ

maṣdar فَوْزٌ, مَفَازٌ and مَفَازَةٌ.

He attained, gained, or won good, or good fortune, or what he desired or sought. He met with that for which one would be regarded with a wish to be in the like condition, without its being desired that it should pass away from him. He became far from what was disliked or evil. He succeeded. He won the victory.

[He had his arrow drawn, or] his arrow came forth [from the رِبَابَة] in the game called المَيْسِر; and, said of an arrow, it won, or came forth before its fellow [or fellows in that game].

Said of good, or good fortune, or of reward. It also means: he took it away, he went away with it.

Lane cites “Bd in iii. 182” — a commentary, not the verse; no modern number is given

1.1.1he became safe from it, he escaped it—فَازَ مِنهُ

Said of evil, or of punishment.

a happy end belongs to the one who gains reward and escapes punishment—طُوبَى لِمَنْ فَازَ بِالثَّوَابِ وَفَازَ مِنَ العِقَابِ

on this sense He became safe, or secure; he escaped.

1.2figurative · مجازhe perished; he died—فَازَ

فَوَّزٌ has the same meaning, so that this verb carries two opposite meanings.

But IB says that, according to some, it is not used in this sense unless it is preceded by another phrase, as in this example: مَاتَ فُلَانٌ وَفَوَّزَ فُلَانٌ بَعْدَهُ [Such a one died and such a one died after him].

According to others, فوّز means he came to be in the مَفَازَة [or state of temporary safety] which lies between the present life and the life to come. [This last meaning is given in the A.]

1.2.1

See also form 2.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1

3:185

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۗ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۖ فَمَن زُحْزِحَ عَنِ ٱلنَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ ۗ وَمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا مَتَـٰعُ ٱلْغُرُورِ

Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception.

4:73

وَلَئِنْ أَصَـٰبَكُمْ فَضْلٌ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ لَيَقُولَنَّ كَأَن لَّمْ تَكُنۢ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُۥ مَوَدَّةٌ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ مَعَهُمْ فَأَفُوزَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا

But if good fortune comes to you from Allah, they would be sure to say - as if there had never been Ties of affection between you and them - "Oh! I wish I had been with them; a fine thing should I then have made of it!"

33:71

يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَـٰلَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ ۗ وَمَن يُطِعِ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا

That He may make your conduct whole and sound and forgive you your sins: He that obeys Allah and His Messenger, has already attained the highest achievement.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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, aor. يَفُوزُ , inf. n. فَوْزٌ (S, A, O, Msb, K) and مَفَازٌ and مَفَازَةٌ , (TA,) He attained, acquired, gained, or won, good, or good fortune, (S, A, O, Msb, * K,) or his wish or desire, or what he desired or sought; (Bd in iii. 182, and TA;) he met with, or experienced, that for which one would be regarded with a wish to be in the like condition, without its being desired that it should pass away from him; he became far from what was disliked, or hated, or evil: (TA:) he succeeded, or was successful: he won, or gained the victory: (Msb:) [he had his arrow drawn, or] his arrow came forth [from the رِبَابَة ], in the game called المَيْسِر : and it (an arrow) won; or came forth before its fellow [or fellows in that game]. (O, * TA.) You say, فَازَ بِهِ He attained it, acquired it, gained it, or won it; (Kh, A, O, Msb, K;) namely, good, or good fortune; (Kh, O;) or reward: (A:) and he took it away, went away with it. (S, K.) He became safe, or secure; he escaped. (S, A, O, Msb, K.) You say, فَازَ مِنهُ He became safe, or secure, from it; he escaped it; (A, O, K;) namely, evil; (TA;) or punishment. (A, O, TA.) And طُوبَى لِمَنْ فَازَ بِالثَّوَابِ وَفَازَ مِنَ العِقَابِ A happy end is his who gains reward and escapes punishment. (A.) And فَازَ , (S, O, K,) aor. يَفُوزُ , (TA,) inf. n. فَوْزٌ , (S, A, K,) He perished: (S, A, K:) he died; and so فَوَّزٌ : (S, A, O, Msb, K:) thus the former bears two contr. significations: (A, K:) but IB says that, accord. to some, the latter is not used in this sense unless preceded by another phrase such as in the following ex.: مَاتَ فُلَانٌ وَفَوَّزَ فُلَانٌ بَعْدَهُ [Such a one died and such a one died after him]: and accord. to others, فوّز signifies he became in the مَفَازَة [or state of temporary safety] which is between the present life and that which is to come. (TA.) [This last signification is given in the A.] See also 2.

Form 2فوّز4 senses · 2 main

Core sense — he went into, or traversed, the desert; he went awaygenerated

2.1figurative · مجازhe traversed the مفازة—فَازَ

He went, or his course brought him, to the مَفَازَة; or he went upon the مفازة; or he went away; or he went away into the مفازة.

he entered upon the مفازة with his camels—فوّز بِإِبِلِهِ

2.1.1figurative · مجاز — inferred

Also: he went forth from one land or country to another.

تفوّز means the same as فوّز.

2.1.2

See also form 1, later part, in three places.

2.2

Said of a road: it was, or became, apparent. Sgh adds [but not in the O,] that it stopped, or came to an end.

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He went, or his course brought him, to the مَفَازَة : (IAar, TA:) or he went upon the مفازة : (A, TA:) or he went away. (IAar, O, K:) or he went away into the مفازة : (A:) and فَازَ signifies he traversed the مفازة . (Msb.) You say, فوّز بِإِبِلِهِ (S, A, O, K) He entered upon the مفازة with his camels. (S, O, K.) Also He went forth from one land or country to another: and تفوّز signifies the same as فوّز . (TA.) See also 1, latter part, in three places. And, said of a road, It was, or became, apparent: (O, K:) and Sgh adds. [but not in the O,] and it stopped, or came to an end. (TA.)

Form 4افازهُ بِكَذَا1 sense

Core sense — he caused him to attain, gain, or win such a thinggenerated

4.1

He (God, or a man) caused him to attain, gain, or win such a thing.

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He (God, S, O, K, or a man, Msb) caused him to attain, acquire, gain, or win, such a thing. (S, O, Msb, K.)

Form 5تَفَوَّزَ1 sense

Core sense — he went away into the desert; he went from one land to anothergenerated

5.1

See form 2.

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see 2.

Derived nouns 5

Nounفَازٌ1 sense

Core sense — a tent with two poles, or one extended with a polegenerated

See the entry that follows.

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: see what next follows.

Nounفَازَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a tent with two poles, or one extended with a polegenerated

1a tent of the kind so called, with two poles, or one extended with a pole—مِظَلَّة

It is added that the word is thought to be Arabic.

Its plural [or rather ism jamʿ] is فَازٌ.

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A [tent such as is called] مِظَلَّة , (S, K.) with two poles, (K,) or that is extended with a pole: (S; in which is added, “ it is in my opinion an Arabic word: ”) pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] فَازٌ . (ISd, TA.)

Nounفَائِزَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a thing that rejoices one, and by which one attains goodgenerated

1figurative · مجازhe gained a thing that rejoiced him—فَازَ بِفَائِزَةٍ

A thing that rejoices one, and by which one attains good, or what he desires.

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A thing that rejoices one, and by which one attains good or the object of his desire: you say, فَازَ بِفَائِزَةٍ He attained, acquired, gained, or won, a thing that rejoiced him, &c. (A, O, * TA.)

Nounمَفَازٌ1 sense

Core sense — a desert, or a desert in which there is no watergenerated

See the entry that follows, near the end.

Qur’ānic occurrences مَفَاز

78:31

إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا

Verily for the Righteous there will be a fulfilment of (the heart's) desires;

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: see the following paragraph, near the end.

Nounمَفَازَةٌ4 senses · 2 main

Core sense — a place of safety, or escape; a waterless desert; a place of perditiongenerated

1by no means reckon them to be in a place of security from punishment—فَلَا تَحْسِبَنَّهُمْ بِمَفَازَةٍ مِنَ العَذَابِ

So in the Kur-án [3:185]; or, according to Fr, the meaning here is: far from punishment.

A place of safety, security, or escape.

1.1a means of prosperity or success, or of attaining what one seeks—مَفْلَحَةٌ

Also a means of attaining what is good, or what puts one in a happy state.

1.2figurative · مجاز

[The state of temporary safety between the present life and the life to come. See form 1, last meaning.]

2figurative · مجازany desert of this kind, or a desert in which there is no water—قَفْرٌ

A place of perdition, or destruction; or the same as فَلَاةٌ, [i. e.] a desert; synonym بَرِّيَّةٌ.

Also a desert in which there is no water for the space of a journey of two nights or more; when there is none for the space of a journey of a night and a day, it is not called this.

Or a tract in which two watering-places are so far apart that camels are kept from drinking two days, with a portion of the day before them and of the day after them, [according to the generally preferred explanation of the term رِبْعٌ used here,] while other animals [that travel faster] drink on alternate days; also فَلَاةٌ.

Or such as lies between the sort in which camels are kept from drinking two days, as above, and the sort in which other animals drink on alternate days; also فَيْفَاةٌ.

So called to foretell good fortune and safety, as meaning a place of safety, from فَازَ, meaning "he became safe"; or from فَوَّزَ or فَازَ, meaning "he perished" or "he died". AHei condemns the first of these statements, but Az and ISd say that it is the more commonly approved, though the second agrees better with analogy. Or it is so called because whoever comes out of it, having crossed it, is safe.

The plural is مَفَاوِزُ.

مَفَازٌ means the same as مَفَازَةٌ.

[and he saw before him, or looked forward to, a far journey and a desert, or a waterless desert]—فَٱسْتَقْبَلَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا وَمَفَازًا

So in a tradition of Kaab Ibn-Málik.

Qur’ānic occurrences مَفَازَة

3:188

لَا تَحْسَبَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَفْرَحُونَ بِمَآ أَتَوا۟ وَّيُحِبُّونَ أَن يُحْمَدُوا۟ بِمَا لَمْ يَفْعَلُوا۟ فَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّهُم بِمَفَازَةٍ مِّنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

Think not that those who exult in what they have brought about, and love to be praised for what they have not done,- think escape the penalty. For them is a penalty Grievous indeed.

39:61

وَيُنَجِّى ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوْا۟ بِمَفَازَتِهِمْ لَا يَمَسُّهُمُ ٱلسُّوٓءُ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

But Allah will deliver the righteous to their place of salvation: no evil shall touch them, nor shall they grieve.

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A place of safety, security, or escape. (S, A, O, K.) So in the Kur [iii. 185], فَلَا تَحْسِبَنَّهُمْ بِمَفَازَةٍ مِنَ العَذَابِ [Do thou by no means reckon them to be in a place of security from punishment]: (S, A, * O:) or, accord. to Fr, the meaning here is, far from punishment. (TA.) A cause, or means, of prosperity, or success, or of the attainment or acquisition of that which one desires or seeks, or of what is good, or of that whereby one becomes in a happy or good state; syn. مَفْلَحَةٌ . (A.) [The state of temporary safety which is between the present life and that which is to come. See 1, last signification.] A place of perdition, or destruction: (Msb, K: *) or i. q. فَلَاةٌ : (A:) [i. e.] a desert; syn. بَرِّيَّةٌ ; any [desert such as is called] قَفْرٌ : (TA:) or a desert in which is no water: (ISh, O, K:) and a desert in which is no water for the space of a journey of two nights or more: when there is none for the space of a journey of a night and a day, it is not thus called. (ISh, O, TA:) or a tract in which two wateringplaces are so far apart that camels are kept from drinking two days, with a portion of the day preceding them and of the day following them, [accord. to that which is generally preferred of the explanations of the term رِبْعٌ which is here employed,] and other animals [that journey quicker] drink on alternate days; as also فَلَاةٌ : or such as is between that in which camels are kept from drinking two days &c. as above, and that in which other animals drink on alternate days; as also فَيْفَاةٌ : (TA:) so called to prognosticate good fortune, and safety. (As, IF, S, A, O, Msb,) as meaning a place of safety, (A,) from فَازَ signifying “ he became safe: ” (Msb:) or from فَوَّزَ , (IAar, S, O, * Msb,) or فَازَ . (AHei, TA.) signifying “ he perished, ” (IAar, S, O, * AHei,) or “ he died: ” (Msb, TA:) AHei condemns the former of these assertions; but Az and ISd say that it is the more commonly approved, though the latter is the more agreeable with analogy: (TA:) or it is so called because he who comes forth from it, having traversed it, is safe: (IAar, TA:) the pl. is مَفَاوِزُ : (S:) and مَفَازٌ signifies the same as مَفَازَةٌ . so in a trad. of Kaab Ibn-Málik; فَٱسْتَقْبَلَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا وَمَفَازًا [And he saw before him, or looked forward to, a far journey and a desert, or a waterless desert, &c.]. (TA.)