خاتنهُ

Form: 3

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خاتنهُIII He allied himself to him by marriage; syn. تَزَوَّجَ إِلَيْهِ. مُخَاتَنَةٌ is syn. with مُصَاهَرَةٌ [The becoming that kind of relation that is termed صِهْر]: as some say, مصاهرة on the side of the wife, and on the side of the husband: so that one says خَاتَنْتُهُمْ as meaning صَاهَرْتُهُمْ [I became a relation to them on the side of the wife, and on the side of the husband].

def.2 See also 1, last sentence.

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