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احنذ

Root: حنذ

Form: 4

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احنذIV He cooked flesh-meat thoroughly.
2 [See also 1]
3 Also, Verbal.Noun إِحْنَاذٌ, He put much mixture [of water] into the beverage or wine (شَرَاب): or, as some say, the contr., i. e. he put little thereof: accord. to Fr, i. q. أَعْرَقَ and أَخْفَسَ: AHeyth disallows its being syn. with these two verbs: but in the M it is said that لَهُ, Present.T ـِ means he made the water for him little, and the beverage, or wine, much; as also اخفس: accord. to Fr, إِذَا سَقَيْتُ فَأَحْنِذْ means أَخْفِسْ, i. e. [when thou givest to drink,] make the water little, and the نَبِيذ much; or this phrase means عَرِّقْ شَرَابَكَ, i. e. pour into thy beverage, or wine, a little water: in the A it is said that إِذَا سَقَيْتُهُ فَأَحْنِذْ لَهُ means [when thou givest him to drink,] give him to drink pure [wine] that shall burn his inside.
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