عِزٌّ

Might, potency, power, or strength; (TA;) as also ↓ عِزَّةٌ: (S, O, TA:) and especially after lowness, or meanness, of condition; as also ↓ the latter word: (AZ, S, A, * Msb, and K, in explanation of عَزَّ:) high, or elevated, rank or condition or state; nobility, honourableness, gloriousness, or illustriousness; synonym رِفْعَةٌ; (TA;) opposite of ذُلٌّ; (S, A, O;) [as also ↓ the latter word: see عَزَّ.] بِعِزِّى لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا, and بِعِزِّكَ, [By my might, &c., and by thy might, &c., such and such things have happened,] like لَعَمْرِى and لَعَمْرُكَ, are bad phrases of the people of Esh-Shihr. (TA.)

[Self-magnification; self-exaltation: see عَزَّ:] and ↓ عِزَّةٌ [or عِزَّةٌ النَّفْسِ signifies the same: and also,] (tropical:) disdainfulness; scornfulness; indignation; (O, TA;) of a blameable kind; as in the Qur'an, 2:202. (TA.)

The quality, or power, of resisting, or withstanding; resistibility: (TA:) and ↓ عِزَّةٌ [signifies the same: and] the quality, in a man, of being invincible, or not to be overcome: (B, TA:) and both signify [difficulty, or hardness: and] impossibility, insuperableness, or unattainableness, of a thing. (Msb.)

[Rareness; scarceness; as also ↓ عِزَّةٌ: see عَزَّ.]

The act of overcoming; conquest; superior power or farce; (TA;) as also ↓ عِزَّةٌ: (S, O, TA:) and the latter has this signification especially in relation to an argumentative contest. (K.)

-A2- مَطَرٌ عِزٌّ Vehement rain: (S, K:) or copious rain: (IAar, AHn, O, TA:) or mighty, great, rain, that causes the plain and the mountain to flow. (TA.) And سِيْلٌ عِزٌّ An overpowering torrent. (A, TA.)