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اختصموا

Root: خصم

Form: 8

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اختصمواVIII They contended in altercation, disputed, or litigated, one with another; i. q. ; both signifying as above. He who reads يَخَصِّمُونَ [in the Kur xxxvi. 49] means يَخْتَصِمُونَ; changing the ت into ص, and incorporating [it into the other ص], and transferring its vowel to the خ: some read يَخِصِّمُونَ, without transferring that vowel; because a quiescent letter, when it is made movent, is [regularly] made so with kesr: AA slurred the vowel of the خ: the pronunciation [يَخْصِّمُونَ] with two quiescent letters together is incorrect: Hamzeh read , i. e., with the خ quiescent and with kesr to the ص.
2 اِخْتَصَمَا إِلَيْهِ They two applied to him for the decision of a cause, each of them claiming the right. (TA in art. قمط.) And إِلَيْهِ [An application was made to him by litigants for the decision of a cause]. (Mgh in art. دلو.)

def.2 السَّيْفُ يَخْتَصِمُ جَفْنَهُ, said by J to signify The sword cuts its scabbard, by reason of its sharpness, is a mistake; the verb being correctly with ض, dotted.


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