عين

عَانَ

To hit or hurt someone in the eye.

A literal physical striking of the eye.

• Lane · entry 5558

عَيْنٌ

The evil eye; a glance believed to cause harm or illness.

Also denotes the act or effect of striking someone or property with such a glance.

• Lane · entry 5558
• Lane · entry 5564

عَانَ

To act as a spy or scout, or to send a spy to obtain information.

Used with the relevant person, people, or destination as the object of reconnaissance.

• Lane · entry 5558

عَانَ

To flow, said of tears or water; of a well, to contain abundant water.

The water usage is a lexical extension from the spring or source.

• Lane · entry 5558

عَانَ / أَعَانَ

To reach a spring or water while digging.

Used of a digger reaching the underground source or water.

• Lane · entry 5558

عَيِنَ / عَيَنٌ

To be wide-eyed or large in the black of the eye; width or largeness of the eye.

The quality is the basis of the adjective أَعْيَنُ and its feminine and plural forms.

• Lane · entry 5558
• Lane · entry 5566

عَيَّنَ

To bore, perforate, or pierce a pearl.

The action is understood as making an eye-like opening.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَيَّنَ

To pour water into a new leather water-skin so that its stitch-holes close by swelling.

A specialized leather-working use.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَيَّنَ

To individuate, specify, distinguish, appoint, or assign something.

Includes specifying something in words, assigning property or an obligation, singling out a person, and specifying an intention.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَيَّنَ

To tell someone to his face about his faults or vices.

A direct, face-to-face reproach.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَيَّنَ الحَرْبَ

To stir up or conduct conflict between parties.

A conventional expression for setting war or conflict in motion.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَيَّنَ

To become beautiful and bright, and to blossom, said of trees.

A lexical use applied to the appearance of flourishing trees.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَيَّنَ / عِينَةٌ

A credit-sale arrangement involving a deferred sale and a subsequent cash purchase, or sale on deferred payment generally.

The sources record differing technical descriptions and legal assessments of bayʿ al-ʿīnah.

• Lane · entry 5559
• Lane · entry 5567

عَيَّنَ العَيْنَ

To write or form the letter ع.

A graphic or scribal use of the noun عين for the letter's name.

• Lane · entry 5559

عَايَنَ

To see directly with one's eyes; to view, face, or confront.

The verbal noun عِيَانٌ or مُعَايَنَةٌ denotes direct ocular or face-to-face witnessing.

• Lane · entry 5560

مُعَايَنَةٌ

Dealing in buying and selling for ready money.

A specialized commercial sense associated with عَيْنٌ as ready cash.

• Lane · entry 5560

أَعْيَنَ

To be evil-eyed or to have an allegedly harmful eye.

A derived verbal expression describing the person possessing the harmful glance.

• Lane · entry 5561

تَعَيَّنَ

To look at or try to see someone or something, and to see it with certainty.

This derived verb can describe deliberate visual examination or certain perception.

• Lane · entry 5562

تَعَيَّنَ

To become confounded or perplexed through shame, and to wait or act deliberately in order to cast the evil eye.

A rare reported use combining embarrassment, hesitation, and the evil-eye action.

• Lane · entry 5562

تَعَيَّنَ

To become thin, worn, perforated, or lacerated, said of a skin, water-skin, or camel's foot.

The skin develops eye-like thin circles or holes; the camel-foot use refers to worn or blistered soles.

• Lane · entry 5562
• Lane · entry 5578

تَعَيَّنَ

To become clear, distinct, individuated, specified, or assigned.

Includes becoming particularized or incumbent on a particular person.

• Lane · entry 5562

اعْتَانَ

To take the choice or best part of something.

Used of selecting the best portion of property or another thing.

• Lane · entry 5563

اعْتَانَ

To buy something on credit for payment at a future time.

A commercial use associated with the technical term عِينَةٌ.

• Lane · entry 5563

عَيْنٌ

Ocular presence, immediacy, certainty, or purposeful attention in idiomatic expressions.

Includes expressions meaning eye to eye, in one's direct view, deliberately and earnestly, or near before one.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنُ الثَّوْرِ / عَيْنُ الرَّامِي

The eye of a constellation, especially a named star or pair of stars.

A conventional astronomical naming use based on the eye of an animal or figure.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنُ البَقَرِ / عُيُونُ البَقَرِ

Names for an ox-eye plant, certain dark grapes or raisins, and certain black plums.

These are separate named objects linked by resemblance to animal eyes.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنُ الهِرِّ

A stone known as cat's-eye.

A conventional name based on visual resemblance; the cited source gives it no practical utility.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The eye or opening of a needle.

A shape-based extension from the eye as an organ.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A small perforation, thin circle, or defect in leather or a water-skin.

The defect is named for its eye-like form and may allow water to escape.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنُ الرُّكْبَةِ

The small hollow or cavity at the knee joint.

Each knee is described as having two such hollows, likened to eye sockets.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The small leather receptacle in which bullets or pellets are placed for shooting.

A shape-based technical object name.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The opening from which water issues from a pipe, well, or other conduit.

Distinct from the spring itself: the term can denote the outlet or aperture through which water pours.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Abundant well-water, a drop of water, or metaphorically life, good, or provision.

These are extended uses of the water-source meaning; the cited poetic expression uses عَيْنُ المَاءِ for life or access to good.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنُ الشَّجَرَةِ

The eye or bud of a tree.

A shape-based botanical use.

• Lane · entry 5564

نَظَرَتِ البِلَادُ بِعَيْنٍ

Sprouting herbage or newly emerged pasture.

Used in the idiom that the land has looked with one or two eyes when vegetation appears.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A spy, watcher, observer, or scout.

The noun may be masculine or feminine and denotes one who watches a people or seeks information.

• Lane · entry 5564

مُكَاشِفٌ

A discoverer or revealer of news or hidden information.

A figurative extension of seeing what is concealed.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A look, view, or ocular sight.

Includes direct sight or an act of looking, distinct from the physical eye itself.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A person's aspect, outward appearance, or visible evidence of inner qualities.

The external appearance may be treated as evidence sufficient to assess the person or thing.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A person, any individual, a group, or the people of a house, town, or country.

A synecdochic use in which an eye stands for a person or the people who possess eyes.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ / أَعْيَانٌ

A lord, chief, commander, or eminent and noble person; the notable members of a people.

The plural أَعْيَانٌ also denotes prominent or high-born individuals.

• Lane · entry 5564

أَعْيَانٌ

Full siblings sharing both father and mother.

A specialized plural use of أَعْيَانُ الإِخْوَةِ.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ / عِينَةٌ

The choice, best, most excellent, or highly prized part of a thing, goods, animals, or property.

The meaning may also describe something excellent or highly valued.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Property that is present, ready, at hand, or within reach.

Contrasted with property that is absent or owed.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Ready money or cash, as opposed to debt or deferred payment.

The expression عَيْنٌ غَيْرُ دَيْنٍ explicitly contrasts cash with debt.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A present or immediately available gift.

A gift that is present in hand, sometimes contrasted with an unavailable or deferred one.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A coined gold coin, especially a dinar; by extension, coined gold.

The source distinguishes it from coined silver and also records a broader gold meaning.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A half-dāniq deducted from seven dinars.

A specialized monetary term.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Gold in general.

A figurative extension based on gold's excellence among metals.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنُ الشَّمْسِ

The sun, its disk, or its rays.

The term may refer to the solar disk, the sun itself, or the beams that affect the eye.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A thing's self, essence, substance, person, or very identity.

Often used in بِعَيْنِهِ and related constructions to mean itself, exactly that one, or in its very essence.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ ثَاقِبَةٌ

Certain, sure, or manifest information.

A conventional expression for information that penetrates or is unmistakably clear.

• Lane · entry 5564

العَيْنُ / عَيْنُ اليَقِينِ

Certain and manifest knowledge.

A figurative extension from what is directly seen and therefore known with certainty.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Might or strength.

A reported figurative meaning.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Health and safety.

A reported figurative meaning, distinct from sight and physical protection.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Thirst.

A rare reported meaning, also attributed to the related form غَيْنٌ.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The form or outward shape of a thing.

A figurative extension from the visible organ and appearance.

• Lane · entry 5564

العَيْنُ

The direction of the qiblah, or clouds and rain coming from that direction.

Regional usage varies: the term may denote the direction itself, its right-hand side, or clouds and rain arriving from it.

• Lane · entry 5564

العَيْنُ

Rain continuing for several days without clearing.

A weather term derived from the direction and rain usage.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Usury or interest.

A figurative commercial use, also found in the expression عَيْنُ الرِّبَا.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

An unevenness or slight inclination in a balance.

The word denotes the excess that makes one pan or side outweigh the other.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The tongue or central pointer of a balance.

A technical component name.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Either pan of a balance.

A technical use distinct from the balance's pointer or its unevenness.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A small compartment or partition in a chest.

A specialized object name.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A receptacle or container for dry herbage.

A rare technical meaning associated with a مِحَشَّة.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

Either half or side of a pair of saddle-bags.

A specialized object name.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

A certain small bird with a yellow belly and dark green or ash-colored back.

A lexical bird name; the source compares its size with a collared turtle-dove.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The Arabic letter ع.

A technical alphabetic use, said to be one of the guttural letters.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The middle radical of a triliteral word.

A grammatical and morphological technical term using the traditional فَعَلَ template.

• Lane · entry 5564

عَيْنٌ

The numerical value seventy in the abjad letter calculation.

A technical numerical use of the letter name.

• Lane · entry 5564

عِينَةٌ

The part surrounding the eye of a ewe.

Comparable to the human eyelid or eye socket area.

• Lane · entry 5567

عِينَةٌ

Goodly or attractive appearance.

Used of a garment or other thing with a pleasing appearance.

• Lane · entry 5567

عِينَةٌ

An accession or reinforcement of the strength or forces of war.

A specialized figurative use, likened to additional milk collecting in an udder.

• Lane · entry 5567

عَيْنُونٌ

A plant found in al-Andalus, said to attenuate bodily humors when cooked with figs.

A specific botanical name.

• Lane · entry 5569

عِيَانٌ

Clear, evident, manifest, open, or publicly visible.

Derived from direct ocular seeing and used adjectivally or adverbially.

• Lane · entry 5570

عِيَانٌ

An iron part of a plough, including the ploughshare or a ring associated with it.

The exact component varies among the cited descriptions.

• Lane · entry 5570

ابْنَا عِيَانٍ

Two divining lines, birds, or arrows used in augury or gaming.

The phrase refers to objects from whose movements, flight, or results information was sought.

• Lane · entry 5570

عَيُونٌ / عَائِنٌ / مَعِينٌ

A person who strikes others with the evil eye; evil-eyed.

The forms are agent or descriptive derivatives of the evil-eye usage.

• Lane · entry 5571
• Lane · entry 5576
• Lane · entry 5580

عَيِّنٌ

Quick to weep.

A rare adjectival use applied to a person.

• Lane · entry 5574

عَيِّنٌ

A water-skin with thin eye-like defects, one that leaks, or a worn water-skin.

The sources also record a dialectal or disputed use meaning new; the defect and leakage senses are the explicit lexical branch.

• Lane · entry 5574

عَائِنٌ

Flowing water.

An adjectival use derived from عَيْنُ المَاءِ, the water-source.

• Lane · entry 5576

عَائِنَةٌ

A party of companions who see the speaker or are themselves seen.

Used in a construction describing people whose eyes are directed toward or perceived by the speaker.

• Lane · entry 5577

عَائِنَةٌ

A place or situation in which the enemy's eyes are watching someone.

A conventional construction focused on being exposed to observation.

• Lane · entry 5577

عَائِنَةٌ

The herds or flocks, together with their herders, belonging to a specified group.

A specialized collective use.

• Lane · entry 5577

أَعْيَنُ / عَيْنَاءُ

A wild bull or wild cow, named for its large or beautiful eyes.

The feminine عَيْنَاءُ is used of the wild cow; the sources differ over whether أَعْيَنُ should be used of the wild bull.

• Lane · entry 5578

عَيْنَاءُ

A sheep or goat with black eyes and a contrastingly white body, or the reverse according to one report.

A marked eye-and-body coloration in livestock.

• Lane · entry 5578

عَيْنَاءُ

A good or beautiful word, saying, or expression.

A figurative use likening speech to a woman beautiful and wide-eyed.

• Lane · entry 5578

قَوَافٍ عِينٌ

An epithet for verse or rhyme reported as penetrating or effective.

The exact interpretation is uncertain in the cited lexicographic discussion; it is not treated as a Quranic meaning.

• Lane · entry 5578

أَعْيَنُ

A reported epithet for a dark or greenish land or a repeatedly used water-bucket.

The source presents the land interpretation as conjectural and suggests that the bucket interpretation may better fit the surrounding explanation.

• Lane · entry 5578

مَعَانٌ

A place in which people are seen or known to be present.

A place characterized by visible presence.

• Lane · entry 5579

مَعَانٌ

A place of alighting, residence, or abode.

Used of a settlement or location where a group lodges.

• Lane · entry 5579

عَيْنٌ

A spring or source with a continuously increasing or replenished flow of water.

A specialization of the spring meaning emphasizing continued increase.

• Lane · entry 5580

مُعَيَّنٌ

A garment figured with eye-like designs or small square patterns resembling animal eyes.

A textile description based on visual patterning.

• Lane · entry 5581

مُعَيَّنٌ

A bull marked between the eyes, or marked with black-and-white eye-like spots.

The reports explain the name through the animal's eyes or eye-like markings.

• Lane · entry 5581

مُعَيَّنٌ

Locusts whose white and red coloring becomes visible after the outer covering is removed.

A specialized descriptive use.

• Lane · entry 5581

مُعَيَّنٌ

A distinct, particular, or specially specified purpose or intention.

A passive-participial use derived from specifying or particularizing an intention.

• Lane · entry 5581

مُعْتَانٌ

An explorer sent ahead of a people to seek pasture, water, rain locations, and news.

A specialized scout who surveys conditions before the group travels.

• Lane · entry 5585