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حَقَنَهُ

Root: حقن

Form: 1

Full Definition

حَقَنَهُI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun حَقْنٌ, i. q. حَبَسَهُ [as meaning He confined it; kept it in; prevented it from escape; retained, restrained, or withheld, it]; as also , or ; but see, in what follows, what is said of this last in the S.
2 حَقَنَ اللَّبَنَ فِى السِّقَآءِ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun as above, He collected the milk in the skin, and poured fresh milk upon that which was curdled, or thick, or upon that which was churned: or he poured the milk into the skin, [and kept it therein] that its butter might come forth. And حَقَنَ المَآءَ فِى السِّقَآءِ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun as above, He collected the water in the skin.
3 حَقَنَ البَوْلَ, or بَوْلَهُ, He kept in, or retained, and collected, the urine, or his urine: one should not say ; nor should one say [of the urine] حَقَنَنِى هُوَ.
4 حَقَنَ دَمَهُ, and حَقَنَ لَهُ دَمَهُ, He prevented or forbade, the shedding of his blood, and the slaying him; [he spared his blood, or forbore to shed it;] i. e., he saved him from slaughter when it had become lawful to slay him; from حَقَنَ اللَّبَنَ; contr. of هَدَرَهُ; as though he collected his blood in him, and did not pour it forth.
5 حَقَنَ مَآءَ وَجْهِهِ He preserved [the lustre of his face; meaning his honour, or reputation].
6 حَقَنَ المَرِيضَ He administered to the sick person what is termed حُقْنَة, i. e. [a clyster,] a medicine put into a مِحْقَنَة; he conveyed medicine into the inside of the sick person by his anus (مِنْ مَخْرَجِهِ) with the مِحْقَنَة. See also 8.
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