احتال
Root: حول
Form: 8
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احتالVIII
[meaning He was referred, or turned over, to him for the payment of the debt] is from الحَوَالَةُ. You say, احتال زَيْدٌ بِمَا كَانَ لَهُ عَلَىَّ عَلَى رَجُلٍ
Zeyd was referred, or turned over, for the payment of what was due to him from me, to a certain man, to whom the responsibility for the debt was transferred.
2 احتال said of a year; see 1.
3 احتال and تحوّل and تحيّل signify the same, from الحِيلَةُ [q. v.]; and حَالَ , inf n. مَحَالٌ and حِيلَةٌ, also signifies the same as احتال; which means He practised حِيلَة [i. e. an evasion or elusion, a shift, a wile, an artifice, or an artful contrivance or device, a machination, a trick, a plot, a stratagem, or an expedient, &c.]: or he exercised art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or shill, and excellence of consideration or deliberation, and ability to manage according to his own free mill, with subtilty: or he sought الحِيلَة i. e. [means of evading, or eluding, a thing, or of effecting an object, by] the exercise of art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs; by the turning over, or revolving, thoughts, ideas, schemes, or contrivances, in his mind, so as to find a way of attaining his object. You say, احتال فِى الأَمْرِ and تحوّل [&c., He practised an evasion or elusion, &c., in the affair]. [And احتال عَلَيْهِ He practised an artifice, or an artful contrivance or device, &c., against him. And احتال لِعِيَالِهِ He exercised art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs, for his family, or household.]
def.2 اِحْتَوَلُوهُ They encompassed, or surrounded, him; or made him to be in the midst of them.
2 احتال said of a year; see 1.
3 احتال and تحوّل and تحيّل signify the same, from الحِيلَةُ [q. v.]; and حَالَ , inf n. مَحَالٌ and حِيلَةٌ, also signifies the same as احتال; which means He practised حِيلَة [i. e. an evasion or elusion, a shift, a wile, an artifice, or an artful contrivance or device, a machination, a trick, a plot, a stratagem, or an expedient, &c.]: or he exercised art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or shill, and excellence of consideration or deliberation, and ability to manage according to his own free mill, with subtilty: or he sought الحِيلَة i. e. [means of evading, or eluding, a thing, or of effecting an object, by] the exercise of art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs; by the turning over, or revolving, thoughts, ideas, schemes, or contrivances, in his mind, so as to find a way of attaining his object. You say, احتال فِى الأَمْرِ and تحوّل [&c., He practised an evasion or elusion, &c., in the affair]. [And احتال عَلَيْهِ He practised an artifice, or an artful contrivance or device, &c., against him. And احتال لِعِيَالِهِ He exercised art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs, for his family, or household.]
def.2 اِحْتَوَلُوهُ They encompassed, or surrounded, him; or made him to be in the midst of them.
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