diya
blood money, indemnity, wergild
دِيَة
From the same root
All words from و د ي →Lane's Lexicon
Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 7 entries-
وَدَى القَتِيلَ Form I He gave the bloodwit to the heir, or next of kin, of the slain person
He gave the bloodwit to the heir, or next of kin, of the slain person. (Msb.) -
وَادَاهُ Form III He took
inf. n. مُوَادَاةٌ, He took [from him] the دِيَة. (TA.) See 3 in art. عدو. -
أَوْدَى بِهِ Form IV It destroyed him
It destroyed him; (T;) it removed him, or took him away: (M, K:) said of death [&c.]. (T, M, K.) See an ex. in art. بلو, conj. 8, and another voce أَزْلَمُ. ― -b2- أَوْدَى: see a verse cited voce قَلَبَةٌ. ― -b3- أَوْدَى العَيْرُ إِلّا ضَرِطًا: see ضَرَطَ. -
دِيَةٌ Bloodwit; a fine for bloodshed
Bloodwit; a fine for bloodshed, i. e., homicide; consisting of a hundred camels. ― -b2- دِيَاتُ جِرَاحَاتٍ [Fines for wounds]. (S, M, TA, &c., in art. شنق.) -
وَدِىٌّ Small
Small فَسِيل, q. v.; (S, Msb, K;) shoots, or offsets, cut off from palm-trees and planted: (Mgh:) young palm-trees. (TA.) -
وَادٍ A valley; a water-course, or torrent-bed
[A valley; a water-course, or torrent-bed: and sometimes a river;] a space intervening, (M, Msb, K,) i. e. any such space, (M, Msb,) between mountains or hills; (M, Msb, K;) through which a torrent runs forth [occasionally or constantly]: (Msb:) for which reason it is thus called. (M, Mgh, TA.) ― -b2- حَلَّ بِوَادِيهِ i. q. بَاعَِ عَلَى بَيْعِهِ in one of the senses explained in art. بيع; i. e., (tropical:) He superseded him, &c. -
تَوْدِيَةٌ Open entry
; pl. تَوَادٍ, in the accus. case, by poetic licence, تَوَادِيًا: see a verse cited voce خُفٌّ.
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