جَهَنَّمُ
جهنم [
Hell; or
Hell-fire;] (T, S,
K, &c.;) a name of
the fire with which God will
punish, (T, S,)
in the life to come, (T,)
his [
disobedient and unrepentant and unbelieving]
servants; (S;) a proper name of
the abode of
punishment: (Bd, ii. 202:) a word rendered
quasi-coordinate to the quinqueliteral-radical class by
the doubling of the third letter: (S:) accord. to some,
it is an Arabic word, applied to the fire of the world
to come because of its depth; [see the last paragraph;]
(T, TA;) or originally syn. with
النَّارُ [
fire, or
the fire]; (Bd in
ii. 202;) and imperfectly decl. because determinate and
of the fem. gender: (T, S:) accord. to others, it is an
arabicized word, (T, S, Bd ubi suprà,) imperfectly decl.
because determinate and of foreign origin; (T, TA;) some
say, originally Persian; (S;) others, from the Hebrew
كهنام, (TA,) [or as Golius says, ? “ the Valley of
Hinnom, ” where children were burned alive as sacrifices
to the idol Moloch.] ― -b2- See also
جِهِنَّامٌ. [
جَهَنَّمِىٌّ
جهنم
جهنمى
جهنمي Of, or
relating to,
جَهَنَّم, i. e.
Hell, or
Hell-fire.]
جِهِنَّامٌ
جهنام (S, K, Ham p. 817) and [
جَهِنَّامٌ
and
جُهِنَّامٌ], with each of the three vowels (K, TA)
to the
ج (TA,) [but accord. to the K it would rather seem
to be
جَهَنَّامٌ and
جُهُنَّامٌ,] and ↓
جَهَنَّمٌ , (K,) applied to a well (
رَكِيَّةٌ,
S, K, or
بِئْرٌ, Ham),
Deep; (S, K, Ham;)
in which
he who falls into it perishes. (Ham.) Credit:
Lane Lexicon