Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اخضع

Root: خضع

Form: 4

Full Definition

اخضعIV , intrans.: see 1, in two places.

def.2 اخضعهُ It lowered, humbled, or abased, him; [as also خضّعهُ ; for its Verbal.Noun] تَخْضيعٌ signifies the rendering lowly, humble, or submissive; in Persian, فَرُوتَنْ كَرْدَانِيدَنْ. [Hence,] أَخْضَعَتَنِى إِلَيْكَ الحَاجَةُ Want, or need, [made me lowly, humble, or submissive, to thee; or] constrained me to have recourse to thee, and to require thine aid.
2 See also 1, near the end of the paragraph.


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