jizoyapN jzyh jzyp The tax that is taken from the free nonMuslim subjects of a Muslim government; (S, IAth, Mgh,* Msb, K;) whereby they ratify the compact that ensures them protection: (IAth:) [from jazaY ;] as though it were a compensation for their not being slain: (IAth, Mgh:) [or from the Persian Gizoyaho :] and also, (metaphorically, Mgh,) (tropical:) a land-tax; (Mgh, K;) a tax that is paid by the owner of land: (TA:) pl. jizFY (S,) or ↓ jizoYN , (Msb,) or both, (K,) [but the latter is, properly speaking, a coll. gen. n.,] and jizaA='N , (K, [in the CK, erroneously, jazA'N ,]) like kitaAbN . (TA.)
The corpus record — Arabic
جِزْيَة
jizyah
jizoyapN jzyh jzyp The tax that is taken from the free nonMuslim subjects of a Muslim government; (S, IAth, Mgh,* Msb, K;) whereby they ratify the compact that ensures them protection: (IAth:) [from jazaY ;] as though it were a compensation for their not being slain: (IAth, Mgh:) [or from the Persia
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- The Quran 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- جِزْيَةَ Quran 9:29 (At-Tawbah 29)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.