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مَحِْتدٌ

Root: حتد

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مَحِْتدٌ Origin; syn. أَصْلٌ; app. in respect of race, or lineage, only, as several of the lexicologists have expressly asserted; as also مَحْفِدٌ and مَحْقِدٌ and مَحْكِدٌ: pl. مَحَاتِدُ. You say, فُلَانٌ مِنْ مَحْتِدِ صِدْقٍ, or فِى مَحْتِدِ صِدْقٍ, [Such a one is of a good, or an excellent, origin.] And هُوَ كَرِيمُ المَحْتِدِ [He is generous in respect of origin].
2 Also Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or the like. You say, of a man who has done an act of kindness and reverted from it, رَجَعَ إِلَى مَحْتِدِهِ He returned to his natural disposition.


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