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===A note on the English word 'loins'=== | ===A note on the English word 'loins'=== | ||
Islamic websites sometimes will show you the word loins in certain English translations and want you to understand it in the modern euphemistic sense as the | Islamic websites sometimes will show you the word loins in certain English translations and want you to understand it in the modern euphemistic sense as the reproductive areas of a man. But this meaning is secondary to its primary meaning which is the lumbar portion of the back, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary: | ||
{{Quote||Loin, n. | {{Quote|| | ||
1. a. In the living body. Chiefly pl. The part or parts of a human being or quadruped, situated on both sides of the vertebral column, between the false ribs and the hip-bone.}} | Loin, n. | ||
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a. In the living body. Chiefly pl. The part or parts of a human being or quadruped, situated on both sides of the vertebral column, between the false ribs and the hip-bone.}} | |||
It's secondary, euphemistic meaning in the O.E.D. is defined as follows: | It's secondary, euphemistic meaning in the O.E.D. is defined as follows: | ||
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2. Chiefly Biblical and poet. This part of the body, regarded: | 2. Chiefly Biblical and poet. This part of the body, regarded: | ||
a. as the part of the body that should be covered with clothing and about which the clothes are bound; so, to gird (up) the loins (lit. and fig.), to prepare for strenuous exertion.}} | a. as the part of the body that should be covered with clothing and about which the clothes are bound; so, to gird (up) the loins (lit. and fig.), to prepare for strenuous exertion.}} | ||
Lane's Lexicon | The Lane's Lexicon of classical Arabic definition for sulb includes the following:<ref>sulb - [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume4/00000436.pdf Lane's Lexicon Book I page 1712]</ref> | ||
{{Quote||and any portion of the back containing vertebrae: (S, MSB, TA:) [and particularly '''the lumbar portion; the loins''':] and the back [absolutely]}} | {{Quote||and any portion of the back containing vertebrae: (S, MSB, TA:) [and particularly '''the lumbar portion; the loins''':] and the back [absolutely]}} | ||