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تَخَوَّضَ

Root: خوض

Form: 5

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تَخَوَّضَV see 1, first sentence.
2 تخوّض also signifies He constrained himself to wade, or ford, in, or through, water. This is the primary signification: and hence,
3 تخوّض فِى الأَمْرِ He employed, or occupied, himself in the affair: and he used art or artifice or cunning, or his own judgment or discretion, in the affair, or in the disposal or management thereof: and so in the phrase تخوّض فى المَالِ: or, accord. to some, this means he acted wrongly in acquiring the property in an improper manner, in whatsoever way it was possible.
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