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دَسَعَهُ

Root: دسع

Form: 1

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دَسَعَهُI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَسْعٌ and دَسِيعَةٌ, He impelled it, pushed it, thrust it, or drove it; and particularly so as to remove it from its place; propelled it, repelled it; pushed it, thrust it, or drove it, away, or back.
2 Hence, دَسَعَ البَعِيرُ بِجِرَّتِهِ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَسْعٌ and دُسُوعٌ, The camel propelled his cud so as to make it pass forth from his inside to his mouth; drew it forth from his stomach and cast it into his mouth. And دَسَعَ فُلَانٌ بَقِيْئِهِ Such a one cast forth his vomit. And دَسَعَ alone, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَسْعٌ, He vomited: or he vomited as much as filled his mouth. And دَسَعَ البَحْرُ بِالعَنْبَرِ The sea collected together the ambergris like foam, or scum, and then cast it aside.
3 [Hence, also, (as appears from an explanation of دَسِيعَةٌ, q. v. infrà,)] دَسَعَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَسْعٌ, He gave a large gift. It is said in a trad., that God will ask the son of Adam on the day of resurrection, أَلَمْ أَجْعَلْكَ تَرْبَعُ وَ تَدْسَعُ Did I not make thee to take the fourth part of the spoil, and to give largely? and on his answering “ Yes, ” that God will ask, “ Then where is [thy] gratitude for that? ” for the doing thus is the act of the chief.
4 And دَسَعْتُ القَصْعَةَ, Verbal.Noun دَسْعٌ, I filled the bowl.
5 and دَسَعَ الجُحْرَ, Verbal.Noun دَسْعٌ, He stopped up the burrow at once with a stopper of rag, or some other thing of the size of the burrow.
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