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فِرْدَوْس

Word

Noun

Root

ف ر د و س

Forms

Plural
فَرادِيس

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إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتُ الْفِرْدَوْسِ نُزُلًا

The Qurʾān, page 304 →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 6 entries
  • فَرْدَسَهُ He threw him down, prostrate, on the ground
    , (O, K,) inf. n. فَرْدَسَةٌ, (Kr, M, O,) He threw him down, prostrate, on the ground, (Kr, M, O, K,) in an evil, or abominable, manner: (Kr, M, O:) and flung him upon the ground; lit., smote with him the ground. (O, K.) ― -b2- And فَرْدَسَ الجُلَّةَ He filled, or stuffed, compactly, the [receptacle for dates, termed] جُلَّة. (AA, O, * K.)
  • فَرْدَسَةٌ Width; amplitude
    Width; amplitude: (M, O, Msb, K:) whence is derived the word فِرْدَوْسٌ, (Msb, K,) accord. to Fr. (Msb.)
  • فِرْدَوْسٌ A garden
    A garden: (S, Msb:) so in the Greek language [ παράδεισος]: (M:) or a garden comprising everything that is in gardens: (Zj, M, A, O, K:) such is the proper signification; (Zj, M, O;) and so with the people of every language: (Zj, M:) and containing grape-vines: (Fr, O, K:) or a garden in which are grape-vines: (IAmb, M, Msb:) or a place in which are grape-vines: (TA:) or an ample, beautiful garden: (A:) or a garden comprising grape-vines and palm-trees: (Bd in xviii. 107:) or with the Arabs it signifies a valley abounding with herbage, like a garden: (M:) or a valley, (Zj, Msb,) or valleys, (O, K,) producing various sorts of plants or herbage: (Zj, O, Msb, K:) in the K, for الأَوْدِيَةُ الَّتِى تُنْبِتُ, we should read مِنَ الأَوْدِيَةِ الَّتِى تُنْبِتُ; (TK;) [or rather, مِنَ الأَوْدِيَةِ مَا يُنْبِتُ, as in the Msb:] or a meadow; syn. رَوْضَةٌ: (Seer, M:) and the greenness of grapes (أَعْنَاب), (so in a copy of the M,) or of herbs (أَعْشَاب): (so in the TA:) masc. and fem.: (Msb:) sometimes the latter; (K;) as in the Kur xxiii. 11, because, by الفِرْدَوْسَ is there meant الجَنَّةَ: (O, TA:) it is an Arabic word, (S, O, Msb, K,) accord. to Fr, (S, O, Msb,) occurring in a verse cited voce ثَوَابٌ, which is by Hassán Ibn-Thábit, (O,) derived from فَرْدَسَةٌ, meaning “ width ” or “ amplitude, ” (Msb, K, *) accord. to Fr: (Msb:) or it is Greek, (Zj, O, Msb, K,) transferred to the Arabic language; (Zj, O, Msb;) [i. e., arabicised: but as it occurs in the Kur (xviii. 107 and xxiii. 11), this is contr. to the opinion of Esh-Sháfi'ee and others, who deny that any arabicized word occurs therein: (see سُنْدُسٌ:)] or it is Syriac: (Zj, O, K:) the pl. is فَرَادِيسُ; (A, TA;) which is applied by the people of Syria to gardens and grape-vines. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (Bd in xviii. 107,) الفِرْدَوْسُ [Paradise: or] a garden of trees, or walled garden, (حَدِيقَةٌ,) in الجَنَّة [or Paradise]: (S:) or the highest of the stages of الجَنَّة: (Bd, ubi suprà:) or the middle and highest part of الجَنَّة. (Jel, ibid.)
  • فُرْدُوسٌ Increase
    Increase (نَزَل, in the CK نُزُل,) that is in طَعَام [i. e. wheat]: (O, K:) mentioned by IDrd, as heard from some persons of ElBahreyn. (O.)
  • فُرَادِسٌ big in the bones
    A man big in the bones. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.)
  • مُفَرْدَسٌ trellised
    A trellised grape-vine; syn. مُعَرَّشٌ. (Lth, S, M.) ― -b2- A wide breast. (O, K.) ― -b3- Widebreasted; having a wide breast. (M.) ― -b4- And [A thing] filled, or stuffed, compactly. (O.)

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