جهنم
جَهَنَّمُ [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 Of, or relating to, جَهَنَّم, i. e. Hell, or Hell-fire.]
جِهِنَّامٌ (
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.)