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جَزَآءٌ جزآء Repayment, requital, compensation, or recompense, for a thing; as also ↓; جَازِيَةٌ(K;) a satisfaction, good for good, and evil for evil; (Er-Rághib, TA;) sometimes a reward, and sometimes a punishment: (AHeyth, TA:) [the former word is an inf. n.; see 1;] the latter, a quasi-inf. n.: جَوَازٍ is pl. of the latter, or of the former, or of ↓جَازٍ, accord. to different writers explaining the saying of El-Hoteí-ah, “ مَنْ يَفْعَلِ الخَيْرَ لَا يَعْدَمْ جَوَازِيَهُ
” [Whoso doth good, he will not want his rewards, or his rewarders]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] جَزَآءَ العُطَاسِ In the time between the complimentary prayer addressed to a sneezer (called التَّشْمِيت) and the sneeze; [or as soon as one can compliment a sneezer by repeating the usual prayer of يَرْحَمُكَ ا@للّٰهُ (God have mercy on thee).] (TA voce مُعَاقِبٌ) ― -b3- [And جَزَآءُ شَرْطٍ An apodosis; the complement, or correlative, of a condition; also called جَوَابُ شَرْطٍ, q.v. in art. جوب ― -b4- And حَرْفُ جَزَآءٍ A particle denoting compensation, or the complement of a condition. And A conditional particle; as إِِنْ; also termed حَرْفٌ لِلْجَزَآءِ, and جَزَآءٌ alone, and حَرْفُ شَرْطٍ.]― -b5- هُوَ ذُو جَزَآءٍ He is possessed of sufficiency, or competence, or wealth. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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