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أَمِنَ , (T, S, M, &c.,) aor.
يَأْمَنُ , (T, Msb, K,)
inf. n. أَمْنٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and إِمْنٌ (Zj, M,
K) and أَمَنٌ (M, K) and أَمَنَةٌ (T, S, M, K) and
إِمْنَةٌ (T) and أَمَانٌ (M, K) [and app. أَمَانَةٌ, for
it is said in the S that this is syn. with أَمَانٌ,]
and آمِنٌ, an instance of an inf. n. of the measure
فَاعِلٌ, which is strange, (MF,) or this is a subst.
like فَالِجٌ, (M,) He was, or became, or felt,
secure, safe, or in a state of security or safety;
originally, he was, or became, quiet, or tranquil,
in heart, or mind; (Msb;) he was, or became,
secure, or free from fear; أَمْنٌ signifying the
contr. of خَوْفٌ, (S, M, K,) and so أَمَنَةٌ (S) and
آمِنٌ [&c.]: (M, K:) he was, or became, or felt,
free from expectation of evil, or of an object of
dislike or hatred, in the coming time; originally,
he was, or became, easy in mind, and free from
fear. (El-Munáwee, TA.) [See أَمْنٌ, below.]
You say also, يَأْمَنُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ [He is secure,
or safe, or free from fear, for himself]. (M.)
And أَمِنَ البَلَدُ, meaning The inhabitants of the
country or district, or town, were in a state of
security, or confidence, therein. (Msb.) The
verb is trans. by itself, and by means of the
particle مِنْ; as in أَمِنَ زَيْدٌ الأَسَدَ and أَمِنَ مِنَ
الأَسَدِ, meaning Zeyd was, or became, or felt,
secure from, safe from, [or free from fear of,]
the lion. (Msb.) You say also, أَمِنَ كَذِبَ مَنْ
أَخْبَرَهُ [He was secure from, or free from fear
of, the lying of him who informed him]. (M.)
And لَا آمَنُ أَنْ يَكُونَ كَذٰلِكَ [I am not free from
fear of its being so; I am not sure but that it
may be so]. (Mgh in art. نبذ; and other lexicons
passim.) And, of a strong-made she camel, أَمِنَتْ
أَنْ تَكُونَ ضَعِيفَةً [She was secure from, or free
from fear of, being weak]: (M: [in a copy of the
S أُمِنَتْ:]) and أَمِنَتِ العِثَارَ وَالإِعْيَآءَ [She was
secure from, or free from fear of, stumbling, and
becoming jaded]: (M:) and أُمِنَ عِثَارُهَا [Her
stumbling was not feared]. (So in a copy of the
S.) And, of a highly-prized camel, أُمِنَ أَنْ يُنْحَرَ
[It was not feared that he would be slaughtered;
or his being slaughtered was not feared]. (M.)
[أَمِنَهُ sometimes means He was, or became, free
from fear, though having cause for fear, of
him, or it. i. e. he thought himself secure, or safe,
from him or it. (See Kur vii. 97.)] ―
2-b2- أمِنَهُ
(inf. n. أَمْنٌ TK) [and accord. to some copies
of the K ↓ آمَنَهُ] and ↓ أمّنهُ (inf. n. تَأْمِينٌ K) and
↓ ائتمنهُ ([written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَمَنَهُ,
and] also written اِتَّمَنَهُ, on the authority of Th,
which is extr., like اِتَّهَلَ [&c.], M) and ↓ استأمنهُ
all signify the same (M, K, TA) [He trusted,
or confided, in him; (as also آمن بِهِ, q. v.;) he
intrusted him with, or confided to him, power,
authority, control, or a charge; he gave him
charge over a thing or person: these meanings
are vaguely indicated in the M and K and TA.].
You say, يَأْمَنُهُ النَّاسُ وَلَا يَخَافُونَ غَائِلَتَهُ [Men, or
people, trust, or confide, in him, and do not fear
his malevolence, or mischievousness]. (T, M.) And
أَمِنَهُ عَلَى كَذَا (S, Mgh, * Msb *) and ↓ ائتمنهُ
عَلَيْهِ, (S, Msb, K,) [He trusted, or confided, in
him with respect to such a thing; he intrusted
him with, or confided to him, power, authority, control, or a charge, over it; he gave him
charge over it;] he made him, or took him
as, أَمِين over such a thing. (Mgh.) Hence, in
a trad., the مُؤَذِّن is said to be مُؤْتَمَنٌ; i. e.
يَأْتَمِنُهُ ↓ النَّاسُ عَلَى الأَوْقَاتِ الَّتِى يُؤَذِّنُ فِيهَا [Men
trust, or confide, in him with respect to the times
in which he calls to prayer], and know, by his
calling to prayer, what they are commanded to
do, as to praying and fasting and breaking fast.
(Mgh.) It is said in the Kur [xii. 11], مَا لَكَ
لَا تَأْمَنُنَا عَلَى يُوسُفَ and [تَأْمَنَّا] with idghám [i. e.
What aileth thee that thou dost not trust, or
confide, in us with respect to Joseph? or, that
thou dost not give us charge over Joseph?]; (S;)
meaning, why dost thou fear us for him? (Bd;)
some pronouncing the verb in a manner between
those of the former and the latter modes of writing
it; but Akh says that the latter is better: (S:)
some read تِيمَنَّا. (Bd.) You say also, ↓ اُوتُمِنَ
فُلَانٌ [Such a one was trusted, or confided, in
&c.;] when it begins a sentence, changing the
second ء into و; in like manner as you change
it into ى when the first is with kesr, as in اِيتَمَنَهُ;
and into ا when the first is with fet-h, as in
آمَنَ. (S.) The phrase اُوتُمِنَ ↓ أَمَانَةً, in a saying
of Mohammad, if it be not correctly عَلَى أَمَانَةٍ,
may be explained as implying the meaning of
اُسْتُحْفِظَ أَمَانَةً [He was asked to take care of a
deposite; or he was intrusted with it]. (Mgh.)
[You also say, أَمِنَهُ بِكَذَا, meaning He intrusted
him with such a thing; as, for instance, money
or other property: see two exs. in the Kur iii. 68 {75}.]
1-A2- أَمُنَ, (M, Mgh, K,) or أَمِنَ, (Msb,) inf. n.
أَمَانَةٌ, (M, Mgh, Msb,) He was, or became,
trusted in, or confided in: (M, K:) or he was,
or became, trusty, trustworthy, trustful, confidential, or faithful: said of a man. (Mgh.)