Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 587
عكف to the worship of their idols )7:139( عَكَفُوْا لَهُ : They went round it : He remained or became behind عَكَفَهُ : He made him or it motionless or still or he detained, debarred or withheld him. اِعْتَكَفَ فِي الْمَكَانِ : He remained in the house cleaving to it. اِعْتِكَافٌ : Denotes a specified form of religious services in which the worshipper stays within the precincts of a mosque for a number of days which he passes in prayer and devotion; the word signifying withholding oneself from the customary exercises of freedom of action in the disposal and management of affairs. عَاكِفٌ : Keeping or cleaving constantly or persevering to a place or thing or continuing intent upon a thing; one who does so )act. part. (. ظَلْتَ عَلَيْهِ عَاكِفًا : Thou hast remained a devoted worshipper of him )20:98( عَكِفُوْنَ and عَكِفِينَ are plurals )2:188;2:126( مَعْكُرْ )pass. part. ): Made still or motionless; detained, withheld or debarred. وَالْهَدْىَ مَعْكُوْفًا : The offering withheld or debarred from reaching its place of offering (48:26). عَلِقَ ]aor. يَعْلَقُ inf. noun عَلِقَ بِهِ عَلَقٌ : It hung to it; it was or became suspended to it; it clung, clave or stuck fast to it. عَلِقَ بِهِ and تَعَلَنَّ : It concerned him or it. عَلِقَهَا and عَلِقَ بِهَا : He loved her. عَلَقَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ : He censured him. عَلَّقَ الشَّيْءَ بِالشَّيْءِ : He hung or suspended the thing to the thing. عَلَّقَ بَابًا عَلَى دَارِه : He set up a door to his house. عَلَى : Any thing suspended or hung; the strap by which the water-skin is suspended; clotted, thick blood because of its clinging together. خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ : Created man from a clot of blood )96:3( عَلَقَةً : A portion or lump of clotted blood or the seminal fluid when it becomes thick, clotted blood )23:15( مُعَلَّقٌ )pass. part. from عَلَّقَ( : Suspended or hung. مُعَلَّقَةٌ )feminine): A woman left suspended by her husband i. e. whose husband neither equitably treats her nor releases or divorces her. فَتَذَرُوْهَا كَالْمُعَلَّقَةِ : That you leave her like a thing suspended )4:130(. عَلِمَ ]aor. يَعْلَمُ inf. noun عَلِمَهُ عِلْمٌ : He knew it he became acquainted with it (syn. عَرَفَهُ( : he knew it intuitively and inferentially (i. . . عَلِمَ الْاَمْرَ . تَيَقَّنَ : He knew the affair or learned it 587