مِيقَٰتًا

Appears 1 times in Quran

Word Details

مِيقَٰتًا

Meanings

an appointed time

📖 Lane's Lexicon (Root: وقت)

[1] وَقَتَ , aor. يَقِتُ, inf. n. وَقتٌ; and ↓ وقّت, inf. n. تَوْقِيتٌ; He determined, defined, or limited, a thing as to time; (IAth, L, Msb;) and otherwise: (L, Msb:) he determined, or defined, times. (S, K.) وَقَتَهُ He declared [or appointed] a time in which it should be done. (S.) وَقَتَ اللّٰهُ الصلَاةَ, aor. يَقِتُ; and ↓ وَقَّتَهَا, God hath determined, or defined, a time for prayer. (Msb.) ↓ وقّت, as also أَقَّتَ, He assigned, or appointed, for a thing, a particular time; he assigned, or appointed, a particular time for doing a thing. (IAth, L.) وَقَّتُّهُ ↓ لِيَوْمِ كَذَا [I appointed him, or it, for such a day]; like أَجَّلْتُهُ. (S.) ― 2-b2- In the following words of the Kur. [lxxvii. 11,] وَإِذَا الرُّسُلُ أُقِّتَتْ, ↓ اقتت is a dial. form of وُقِّتَتْ, like as أُجُوهٌ is of وُجُوهٌ; (S;) and the meaning is And when the Apostles shall have one [particular] time assigned to them to decide between the people [to whom they have been sent to preach]: (Zj:) or, shall be collected at their appointed time, on the day of resurrection. (Fr.) This is the general reading: but there are other reading; namely, وُقِّتَتْ, and وُقِتَتْ, (S, TA,) and وُوقِتَتْ, which last is of the measure فُوعِلَتْ, from المُوَاقَتَةُ. (K.) ― 2-b3- لَمْ يَقِتْ فى الخَمْرِ حَدًّا He (Mohammad) did not determine, or define, for [drinking wine,] a castigation consisting of a certain number [of blows, or stripes]. (TA, from a trad.) ― 2-b4- وَقَتَ sometimes signifies He [i. e. God] made the entering upon the state of إِحْرَام in pilgrimage, and prayer at the commencement of its appointed time, obligatory, or incumbent, upon men. (TA.) ― 2-b5- وَقَّتَ ↓ لِأَهْلِ المَدِينَةِ ذَا الحُلَيْفَةِ He appointed, for the people of El-Medeeneh, Dhu-l-Huleyfeh as the place where they should enter upon the state of إِحْرَام. (TA, from a trad.)

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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)

English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ^ra

Occurrences in Quran

Found 1 verses containing "مِيقَٰتًا".

78:18

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَٰتًا

English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ^ra

Surely, the Day of Decision has an appointed time:

مِيقَٰتًا