Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry يقن
1 يَقِنَهُ
, (S, Msb, K,) and يَقِنَ بِهِ; (Msb;) and ↓ أَيْقَنَهُ, (S, K,) and بِهِ ↓ ايقن; (K;) and ↓ تَيَقَّنَهُ; and ↓ اِسْتَيْقَنَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ استيقن بِهِ; (K;) all signify the same; (S;) He knew it; he was, or became, certain, or sure, or he made sure, of it; syn. عَلِمَهُ; (Msb, K;) intuitively, and inferentially; (Msb;) [see 1 in art. علم;] and تَحَقَقَّهُ. (K.) 4 أَيْقَنَ see 1.
5 تَيَقَّنَ see 1.
10 إِسْتَيْقَنَ see 1.
يَقِينٌ is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ, signifying Sure, or certain, and manifest. (Msb.)
And knowledge, or certainty; [see ظَنٌّ;] instinctive and inferential. (Msb.)
عَيْنُ اليَقِينِ: see عَيْنٌ (latter part).
الحقُّ اليَقِينُ and حَقُّ اليَقِينِ: see جَامِعٌ; where the two words are said to have the same meaning: and Bd and Jel in lvi. 95; in the latter of which, اليقين in حَقُّ اليَقِينِ is expressly said to be an epithet: see also Ham, p. 335.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
