جَزَاءٌ
1.
Repayment, requital, compensation, or recompense, for a thing; as also ↓; جَازِيَةٌ(K;) a satisfaction, good for good, and evil for evil; (Er-Rághib, TA;) sometimes a reward, and sometimes a punishment: (AHeyth, TA:) [the former word is a verbal noun; see 1;] the latter, a quasi-verbal noun: جَوَازٍ is plural of the latter, or of the former, or of ↓جَازٍ, according to different writers explaining the saying of El-Hoteí-ah,
[Whoso doth good, he will not want his rewards, or his rewarders]. (TA.)مَنْ يَفْعَلِ الخَيْرَ لَا يَعْدَمْ جَوَازِيَهُ
2.
[Hence,] جَزَاءَ العُطَاسِ
In the time between the complimentary prayer addressed to a sneezer (called التَّشْمِيت) and the sneeze; [or as soon as one can compliment a sneezer by repeating the usual prayer of
يَرْحَمُكَ
اللّٰهُ (God have mercy on thee).] (TA voce مُعَاقِبٌ)
3.
[And جَزَاءُ شَرْطٍ
An apodosis; the complement, or correlative, of a condition; also called جَوَابُ
شَرْطٍ, q.v. in article جوب
4.
And حَرْفُ جَزَاءٍ
A particle denoting compensation, or the complement of a condition. And A conditional particle; as إِنْ; also termed حَرْفٌ لِلْجَزَاءِ, and جَزَاءٌ alone, and حَرْفُ شَرْطٍ.]
5.
هُوَ ذُو جَزَاءٍ
He is possessed of sufficiency, or competence, or wealth. (TA.)