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تحمّض

Root: حمض

Form: 5

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تحمّضV [app. signifies, in its primary acceptation, He betook himself to the pasture termed حَمْض after eating for a time of that termed خُلَّة.
2 And hence,] He shifted from one thing to another thing.
3 [Hence also,] one says to a man when he comes threatening, أَنْتَ مُخْتَلَّ فَتَحَمَّضْ [Thou art disordered in temper, therefore sooth thyself]: from خُلَّةٌ and حَمْضٌ. [See also خُلِّىٌّ, in art. خل.]
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