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Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry وفق

1 وَفِقَ أَمْرُهُ His affair, or case, was right, agreeable with what was wished, or desired. (A, TA.) 2 وَفَّقَ أَمْرَهُ [He accomodated, adapted, or disposed, his affair to its object; directed it to a right issue;] prospered it. (TK.)

وَفَّقَهُ لِأَمْرٍ He disposed him, or adapted him, to a thing; he disposed him, or made him fit, for a thing.

وَفَّقَهُ اللّٰهُ God accommodated him, adapted him, or disposed him, or directed him, to the right course; syn. سَدَّدَهُ: (Msb:) God made him to take, or follow, a right way, course, or direction, [in an affair]: or directed him by inspiration to that which was good, or to prosperity. (TA.)

وَفَّقَهُ لِلسَّدَادِ [He accommodated, adapted, disposed, or directed him, to that which was right]. (K, art. سد.)

وَفَّقَ بين الشَّيْئَيْنِ He effected an agreement, a harmony, a reconciliation, an accommodation, or an adjustment, between the two things. (MA.) And وَفَّقْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [I effected an agreement, a harmony, &c., between the people, or party; made peace between them]. (Msb, in art. صلح; &c.) 3 وَافَقَهُ He, or it, was conformable, or did conformably, to him, or it; was as he, or it, was, or did as he, or it, did: coincided with him, or it: it suited him, or it: it matched it; tallied with it.

وَافَقَهُ عَلَى أَمْرٍ i. q. مَعَهُ ↓ اِتَّفَقَ عَلَيْهِ, He agreed with him, or was of one mind or opinion with him, upon, or respecting, a thing, or an affair. (TA.)

[وَافَقَهُ is best rendered He agreed, consented, accorded, or was of one mind or opinion, with him: and he complied with him, or it (see طَاوَعَهُ): and he coincided with him, suited him, or it; it matched it, &c.]

وَافَقَ العَذَابُ الذَّنْبَ [The punishment agreed, or corresponded with the sin, crime, or offence]. (TA.)

وَافَقَ It was suitable, or convenient.

See مُشَاكَلَةٌ in art. شكل, conj. 3.

وَافَقَهُ He encountered him; syn. with صَادَفَهُ, q. v.

4 أَوْفَقَ أَمْرَهُ He found his affair, or case, agreeable with his wish, or desire. (TA.) 8 اِتَّفَقَ It happened; chanced. So used in the K, art. لفت, and in many other works.

اِنَّفَقَ مَعَهُ عَلَى أَمْرٍ: see 3. تَوْفِيقٌ A certain legal document: a pleading. See مَحْضَرٌ. إِتِّفَاقِىٌّ Casual.