ارهن

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ارهنIV He made to continue, subsist, last, endure, remain, or remain fixed or stationary; to be, or become, permanent, can stant, firm, steady, steadfast, stable, fixed, fast, settled, or established; and so رَهَنَ ; but the former is the more ap proved: and also he found it to be so. You say, ارهن لَهُمُ الطَّعَامَ, and الشَّرَابَ, and المَالَ, He continued, or made permanent, to them the food, and the beverage, and the property. [And accord. to an expla nation of أُرْهِنَتْ , by 'Alee Ibn Hamzeh, cited in a marginal note in a copy of the S, in art. أَرْهَنَ, وهب signifies He prepared food, and continued it, or made it permanent.]
2 [Hence ارهنهُ as used by some in another sense of رَهَنَهُ:] see 1, in six places. [That it is allowable to use it thus may be inferred from phrases here following.]
3 You say, أَرْهَنْتُ مَالِى I staked my property. And أَرْهَنُوا بَيْنَهُمْ خَطَرًا They gave, of their own free will, what the party approved, whatever were its amount, to be to them a stake at a race. And أَرْهَنْتُ بِهِ وَلَدِى Verbal.Noun إِرْهَانٌ, I made my children to be as a stake for him, or it. And ارهنهُ لِلْمَوْتِ He resigned him to death. And ارهن المَيِّتَ القَبْرَ He deposited the dead body in the grave [as a pledge to be rendered up on the day of resurrection].
4 Accord. to AZ, أَرْهَنْتُ فِى السِّلْعَةِ signifies I bought the commodity for a dear, or an excessive, price; gave largely for it until I obtained it: accord. to ISk, I paid in advance for the commodity; syn. أَسْلَفْتُ; and in the T it is said, [and in like manner in the JK,] that ارهن فِى كَذَا وَ كَذَا signifies اسلف فِيهِ: [in the K it is said that أَرْهَنَهُ signifies أَسْلَفَهُ, as though it meant he lent him a sum of money &c.:] accord. to Er-Rághib, the proper meaning [of إِرْهَانٌ] is one's giving a com modity before [the full payment of] the price, and so making it to be pledged for the completion of its price.

def.2 ارهنهُ also signifies He, or it, weakened him: [like أَوْهَنَهُ:] and rendered him lean, or emaciated. And ارهن ٱللّٰهُ قُوَّتَهُ God weakened him; syn. أَوْهَنَهُ.

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