اخنسهُ

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اخنسهُIV He made him to go back or backwards; to recede, retreat, retire, or retrograde: or he put him, or placed him, or made him to be, behind, or after: or he made him to remain behind, hold back, hang back, or lag behind: or he kept him back: or he delayed, or retarded, him: syn. أَخَّرَهُ: as also , Present.T ـِ [and app., accord. to the K, ـُ also,] Verbal.Noun خَنْسٌ; but the former is the more common: and hid him, or it: or made him, or it, to hide himself or itself; or he left behind, and went away from, him, or it: or both signify he contracted, or drew together, or made to contract or draw together, him [or it]: or the latter verb has this signification as well as that of أَخَّرَهُ: [and so has the former also, as will be seen below:] and the former also signifies he hid, or concealed, him, or it; as also خَنَسَ بِهِ, as mentioned above. You say, أَخْنَسْتُ عَنْهُ بَعْضَ حَقِّهِ I kept back (أَخَّرْتُ) from him part of his right, or due. And أَخْنَسُوا الطَّرِيقَ They passed beyond the road: or left it behind them: or passed beyond it and left it behind them. And أَشَارَ بِأَرْبَعٍ وَأَخْنَسَ إِبْهَامَهُ, and , He [made a sign with four fingers and] contracted his thumb. It is related of Mohammad, that he said, “ The month is thus and thus, ” [twice extending the fingers and thumb of each hand,] and that, the third time, خَنَسَ إِصْبَعَهُ, i. e., he contracted his finger, [meaning, one of his fingers,] to inform them that the month is nine and twenty [nights with their days].

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