11Eleventh: vocabulary and its meanings
1wātatahā (al-ẓurūf)
Meaning
- The conditions offered themselves to it, they fell ready to hand
2nahalat
Meaning
- It drew from and drank its fill (of knowledge)
3al-bilāṭ al-Ghaznawī
Meaning
- The court of Sultan Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin, ruler of Ghazna and conqueror of India
4hadhiq
Meaning
- He became skilled in it, he mastered it
5tanūʾ bi-aḥmālihā
Meaning
- It is weighed down by its loads and can barely lift them
6mutabayina
Meaning
- Widely different, sharply contrasting
7istaqṣā
Meaning
- He pursued the farthest limit of research into it
8al-istiqṛāʾ
Meaning
- Induction: following up particulars in order to reach a general ruling
9al-aʿlā kaʿban
Meaning
- The highest in rank, the most eminent
10tazdān
Meaning
- It is adorned, it is beautified