فَطِنٌ
Root: فطن
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فَطِنٌ
and
فَطُنٌ and
فَطْنٌ and
فَطِينٌ and
فَطُونٌ and
فَاطِنٌ are epithets applied to a man, signifying Intelligent, understanding, knowing, sagacious, or skilful; the first expl. by Lth as signifying possessing
فِطْنَة
respecting things: and it signifies one of whom
فِطْنَة
has become a
سَجِيَّة [meaning faculty, or quality, firmly rooted in the mind]: the pl. [of this] is فُطْنٌ, or فُزُنٌ, with two dammehs, or both: and the fem. is فَطِنَةٌ. فَطِنٌ بِخُصُومَتِهِ means A man knowing in the various modes of his disputation, or litigation, and skilful therein.
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