Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ثقّلهُ

Root: ثقل

Form: 2

Full Definition

ثقّلهُII , Verbal.Noun تَثْقِيلٌ, He, or it, made it, or him, ثَقِيل [i. e. heavy, properly and tropically]: تثقيل is the contr. of تَخْفِيفٌ; and signifies the making heavy in weight [&c.]; as also ثَقْلٌ [Verbal.Noun of ].
2 [Hence, He made it heavy, or not easy, of utterance; or heavy to the ear: and particularly a word by uttering hemzeh with its true, or proper, sound, which is commonly termed تَحْقِيقُ الهَمْزَةِ, and opposed to تَخْفِيفُهَا; and by making a single consonant double; and by making a quiescent consonant movent: often occurring in these senses in lexicons and grammars: opposed to خَفَّفَهُ.]


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