و • ث • ق

It was, or became, firm, stable, fast, or strong; (Msb;) i. q. أُحْكِمَ (S, Mgh, K) [or اِسْتَحْكَمَ, q. v.]. وَثِقَ بِهِ He trusted, or confided, in him. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.)

He made it firm, stable, fast, or strong. (Msb.) He bound, or tied, him, or it, firmly, fast, or strongly, in a bond. (S, K, TK.) See شَدَّهُ.

[The knot became firm, or fast]. (A, in art. ارب.)

[He secured himself against him, by a bond or the like, or absolutely:] he took, or received, a bond (وَثِيقَة) from him. (S, K.) أُكْتُبُوهُ اسْتِيثَاقًا وَدَفْعًا لِلنِّزَاعِ [Write ye it, (namely, the debt,) for the creditor's self-securing, and for preventing contention]. (Jel, ii. 282.) See اِسْتَظْهَرَ. اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنَ البَابِ He closed the door firmly. (MA.) اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنْ أُمُورِهِ: see أَعْنَجَ. اِسْتَوْثَقَ مِنَ المَالِ: see استوثج. اِسْتَوْثَقَ بِهِ He confided in him.

He set about the affair in the surest, or firmest, manner. (TA.)

The doing the thing firmly; and taking the sure method, or way; expl. by إِحْكَامُهُ والأَخْذُ بِالثَِّقَةِ. (TA.) وَثِيقَةٌ A bond, security, or writing of obligation for the payment of a debt or the like: pl. وَثَايءِقُ. Ex., كِتْبَةُ الوَثَايءِقِ (Bd, ii. 282,) The mode of writing bonds. A pledge. وَثِيقَةٌ i. q. دُرْجَةٌ, q. v.

and ↓ مِيثَاقٌ A compact; a contract; a covenant; an agreement; a league; a treaty; an engagement; a bond; an obligation; a promise. (S, K, &c.)

In whom [and in which] trust, or confidence, is placed. (Mgh.)

: see مَوْثِقٌ; and Jel, &c., in ii. 60 and 87.

A she-camel rendered firm, strong, or compact, in make. (S.)

Trusty; trustworthy; honest: applied as an epithet alike to a man and a woman, and to two or more men or women: pl. ثِقَاتٌ. (Msb.) بِهِ ثِقَتِى In him is my trust, or confidence. (TA.) لَسْتُ مِنْهُ عَلَى ثِقَةٍ I am not confident, or sure, of it. Occurring in the S, art. ضمر, &c. See an ex. voce شَهْرٌ (last sentence). أَخُو ثِقَةٍ: see أَخٌ. أَخَذَ بِالثِّقَةِ: see أَخَذَ, and see my explanation of إِحْتَاطَ.