أَحْلَى
Root: حلو
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أَحْلَى[
More, and most, sweet, both properly and metaphorically:]
حُلْوَى is [its fem.,] the contr. of
مُرَّى: you say, خُذِ الحُلْوَى وَأَعْطِهِ المُرَّى [Take thou the sweeter, or sweetest, and give to him the bitterer, or bitterest].
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