حلّاهُ
Root: حلو
Form: 2
Full Definition
حلّاهُII
, Verbal.Noun تَحْلِيَةٌُ, He made it sweet; namely, food; or a thing; as also
: and so حَلَّأَهُ, which is anomalous: sometimes they said, حَلَّأْتُ السَّوِيقَ [I sweetened the meal of parched barley, or the mess made thereof]; pronouncing with hemz that which is not [properly] with hemz: this is said by Lth to be a mistake on their part.
2 [Hence,] حَلَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ فِى عَيْنِ صَاحِبِهِ [I made the thing to seem pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye of its possessor].
2 [Hence,] حَلَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ فِى عَيْنِ صَاحِبِهِ [I made the thing to seem pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye of its possessor].
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