ادهن
Root: دهن
Form: 4
Full Definition
ادهنIV
, Verbal.Noun إِدْهَانٌ: see 1, first sentence: and see 3, in six places. [See also its act. part. n., below.]
2 الإِدْهَانُ is also syn. with الإِبْقَآءُ, which, accord. to IAmb, is the primary signification: in the copies of the K erroneously written الإِنْقَآءُ. One says, لَا تُدْهِنْ عَلَيْهِ, meaning لَا تُبْقِ عَلَيْهِ [Show not thou mercy to him; or pity not him; or pardon not him]. And مَا أَدْهَنْتَ إِلَّا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ, i. e. مَا أَبْقَيْتَ [Thou didst not show, or hast not shown, mercy, save to thyself].
3 One says also, أَدْهَنْتُ فِى أَمْرِهِ, meaning I fell short in his affair, or case.
def.2 And أُدْهِنَ He was affected with the vertigo termed دُهْن.
2 الإِدْهَانُ is also syn. with الإِبْقَآءُ, which, accord. to IAmb, is the primary signification: in the copies of the K erroneously written الإِنْقَآءُ. One says, لَا تُدْهِنْ عَلَيْهِ, meaning لَا تُبْقِ عَلَيْهِ [Show not thou mercy to him; or pity not him; or pardon not him]. And مَا أَدْهَنْتَ إِلَّا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ, i. e. مَا أَبْقَيْتَ [Thou didst not show, or hast not shown, mercy, save to thyself].
3 One says also, أَدْهَنْتُ فِى أَمْرِهِ, meaning I fell short in his affair, or case.
def.2 And أُدْهِنَ He was affected with the vertigo termed دُهْن.
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