اختلط

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اختلطVIII It was, or became, mixed, mingled, commingled, incorporated or blended together, or put together. [And hence, It was, or became, confused, confounded, indiscriminate, promiscuous, without order, disordered, or perplexed.]
2 اختلط اللَّيْلُ بِالتُّرَابِ [The night became confused, or confounded, with the dust, or earth]: and الحَابِلُ بِالنَّابِلِ the setter of the snare with the shooter of arrows; or the warp with the woof: and المَرْعَى بِالهَمَلِ [the place of pasturage with the camels left to pasture by themselves]: and الخَاثِرُ بِالزُّبَادِ the thick milk with the butter that had become bad, or spoiled, in the churning; or, as some say, with the thin milk; or بِالزَّبَّادِ with the herb [so called], which, when it falls into the رَائِب [or milk that is thick, and fit for churning, &c.], is with difficulty separated from it: [but see art. زبد:] proverbs, alluding to the dubiousness and confusedness of an affair or a case: or the first, to the dubiousness of an affair or case; and the second, to its confusedness; and the third is applied when a people's affair or case is confused or perplexed to them; and the last relates to the confusedness of truth with falsity; and to a people whose affair or case is dubious to them, so that they do not decide upon anything.
3 [اختلط الظَّلَامُ The darkness, or the beginning of night, became confused, is a phrase of frequent occurrence. And so اِخْتِلَاطُ الظَّلَامِ The confusedness of the darkness, &c.]
4 اختلط عَلَيْهِمْ أَمْرُهُمْ [Their affair, or case, became confused, or perplexed, to them].
5 See also 3, in four places, near the end of the paragraph: and see 6.
6 Said of a camel, He became fat; his fat and flesh becoming mixed together.
7 Said of a horse: see 4, last sentence.

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