وَقَتَ
1.
, aorist يَقِتُ, verbal noun وَقتٌ; and
وقّت, verbal noun تَوْقِيتٌ; He determined, defined, or limited, a thing as to time; (IAth, L, Msb;) and otherwise: (L, Msb:) he determined, or defined, times. (S, K.) وَقَتَهُ
He declared [or appointed] a time in which it should be done. (S.) وَقَتَ اللّٰهُ الصلَاةَ, aorist يَقِتُ; and
وَقَّتَهَا, God hath determined, or defined, a time for prayer. (Msb.)
وقّت, as also أَقَّتَ, He assigned, or appointed, for a thing, a particular time; he assigned, or appointed, a particular time for doing a thing. (IAth, L.) لِيَوْمِ
وَقَّتُّهُ
كَذَا [I appointed him, or it, for such a day]; like أَجَّلْتُهُ. (S.)
2.
In the following words of the Qur'an. [lxxvii. 11,] وَإِذَا الرُّسُلُ أُقِّتَتْ,
اقتت is a dialect form of وُقِّتَتْ, like as أُجُوهٌ is of وُجُوهٌ; (S;) and the meaning is And when the Apostles shall have one [particular] time assigned to them to decide between the people [to whom they have been sent to preach]: (Zj:) or, shall be collected at their appointed time, on the day of resurrection. (Fr.) This is the general reading: but there are other reading; namely, وُقِّتَتْ, and وُقِتَتْ, (S, TA,) and وُوقِتَتْ, which last is of the measure فُوعِلَتْ, from المُوَاقَتَةُ. (K.)
3.
لَمْ يَقِتْ فى الخَمْرِ حَدًّا
He (Mohammad) did not determine, or define, for [drinking wine,] a castigation consisting of a certain number [of blows, or stripes]. (TA, from a tradition)
4.
وَقَتَ sometimes signifies He [i. e. God] made the entering upon the state of إِحْرَام in pilgrimage, and prayer at the commencement of its appointed time, obligatory, or incumbent, upon men. (TA.)
5.
لِأَهْلِ المَدِينَةِ ذَا الحُلَيْفَةِ
وَقَّتَ
He appointed, for the people of El-Medeeneh, Dhu-l-Huleyfeh as the place where they should enter upon the state of
إِحْرَام. (TA, from a tradition)