تشدّد
Root: شد
Form: 5
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تشدّدV
He acted, or behaved, with forced hardness, firmness, strength, vigour, hardiness, courage, vehemence, severity, strictness, or rigour; he exerted his strength, force, or energy; strained, or strained himself, or tasked himself severely; syn. تَصَلَّبَ; (A and TA in art. صلب;) and جَهَدَ
نَفْسَهُ; [فِى الشَّىْءِ
in the thing; as also فِيهِ; for] المُشَادَّةُ فِى الشَّىْءِ and التَّشَدُّدُ فِيهِ signify the same: (S, L, K: * [see an ex. of تشدّد in the first paragraph of art. جلد:]) [and] both of these phrases signify the showing hardness, &c., in the thing. You say also تشدّد لِلْأَمْرِ
He applied himself with hardness, firmness, vigour, hardiness, severity, or rigour, to the affair. And تَشَدَّدَتِ القَيْنَةُ
The slavesongstress strained herself, or tasked herself severely, in raising her voice in singing.
2 Also He was, or became, hard, or difficult: you say, سَأَلْنَا فُلَانًا حَاجَةً فَتَشَدَّدَ عَلَيْنَا [We asked of such a one a thing wanted, and he was hard, or difficult, to us]. (TA in art. وعر.)
3 And He was, or became, niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious.
2 Also He was, or became, hard, or difficult: you say, سَأَلْنَا فُلَانًا حَاجَةً فَتَشَدَّدَ عَلَيْنَا [We asked of such a one a thing wanted, and he was hard, or difficult, to us]. (TA in art. وعر.)
3 And He was, or became, niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious.
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