ارهن
Root: رهن
Form: 4
Full Definition
ارهنIV
He made to continue, subsist, last, endure, remain, or remain fixed or stationary; to be, or become, permanent, can stant, firm, steady, steadfast, stable, fixed, fast, settled, or established; and so
رَهَنَ ; but the former is the more ap proved: and also he found it to be so. You say, ارهن لَهُمُ الطَّعَامَ, and الشَّرَابَ, and المَالَ,
2 [Hence ارهنهُ as used by some in another sense of رَهَنَهُ:] see 1, in six places. [That it is allowable to use it thus may be inferred from phrases here following.]
3 You say, أَرْهَنْتُ مَالِى I staked my property. And أَرْهَنُوا بَيْنَهُمْ خَطَرًا They gave, of their own free will, what the party approved, whatever were its amount, to be to them a stake at a race. And أَرْهَنْتُ بِهِ وَلَدِى Verbal.Noun إِرْهَانٌ,
4 Accord. to AZ, أَرْهَنْتُ فِى السِّلْعَةِ signifies I bought the commodity for a dear, or an excessive, price; gave largely for it until I obtained it: accord. to ISk, I paid in advance for the commodity; syn. أَسْلَفْتُ; and in the T it is said, [and in like manner in the JK,] that ارهن فِى كَذَا وَ كَذَا signifies اسلف فِيهِ: [in the K it is said that أَرْهَنَهُ signifies أَسْلَفَهُ, as though it meant he lent him a sum of money &c.:] accord. to Er-Rághib, the proper meaning [of إِرْهَانٌ] is one's giving a com modity before [the full payment of] the price, and so making it to be pledged for the completion of its price.
def.2 ارهنهُ also signifies He, or it, weakened him: [like أَوْهَنَهُ:] and rendered him lean, or emaciated. And ارهن ٱللّٰهُ قُوَّتَهُ God weakened him; syn. أَوْهَنَهُ.
2 [Hence ارهنهُ as used by some in another sense of رَهَنَهُ:] see 1, in six places. [That it is allowable to use it thus may be inferred from phrases here following.]
3 You say, أَرْهَنْتُ مَالِى I staked my property. And أَرْهَنُوا بَيْنَهُمْ خَطَرًا They gave, of their own free will, what the party approved, whatever were its amount, to be to them a stake at a race. And أَرْهَنْتُ بِهِ وَلَدِى Verbal.Noun إِرْهَانٌ,
4 Accord. to AZ, أَرْهَنْتُ فِى السِّلْعَةِ signifies I bought the commodity for a dear, or an excessive, price; gave largely for it until I obtained it: accord. to ISk, I paid in advance for the commodity; syn. أَسْلَفْتُ; and in the T it is said, [and in like manner in the JK,] that ارهن فِى كَذَا وَ كَذَا signifies اسلف فِيهِ: [in the K it is said that أَرْهَنَهُ signifies أَسْلَفَهُ, as though it meant he lent him a sum of money &c.:] accord. to Er-Rághib, the proper meaning [of إِرْهَانٌ] is one's giving a com modity before [the full payment of] the price, and so making it to be pledged for the completion of its price.
def.2 ارهنهُ also signifies He, or it, weakened him: [like أَوْهَنَهُ:] and rendered him lean, or emaciated. And ارهن ٱللّٰهُ قُوَّتَهُ God weakened him; syn. أَوْهَنَهُ.
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