تخوّفهُ
Root: خوف
Form: 5
Full Definition
def.2 Also He took by little and little from it, or from its sides; as also تحوّفهُ: (S and K * in arts. حوف and حيف:) or he took from its extremities; so in the A; in which it is said to be tropical: accord. to IF, it is originally [تخوّن,] with ن [in the place of the ف]. Dhu-rRummeh says, or not he, but some other poet, for it is ascribed to several different authors,
[Her saddle abraded from a long and high, compact hump, like as when the piece of skin used for smoothing arrows has abraded from the back of a rod of the tree called نبعة]. (S. [See also 5 in art. حوف, where another reading of this verse is given. In the TA, in the present art., in the places of الرحل and ظهر, I find السَّيْرُ and عُود.]) Hence, accord. to Fr, أَوْيَأَخَذِهِمْ عَلَى تَخَوُّفٍ, in the Kur [xvi. 49], which Az explains as meaning [Or are they secure from his destroying them] by causing them to suffer loss [by little and little] in their bodies and their possessions, or cattle, and their fruits: or, accord. to Zj, it may mean, after causing them to fear, by destroying a town, so that the one next to it shall fear. You say also, تخوّف مِنْ مَالِى He took by little and little from my property. And تَخَوَّفَنَا السَّنَةُ [The year of drought, or sterility, took from us by little and little]. And تَخَوّفَنِى حَقِّى [He diminished to me by little and little my right, or due]. And تَخَوَّفَهُ حمْقُهُتَخَوَّفَ الرَّحْلُ مِنْهَا تَامِكًا قَرِدًا كَمَا تَخَوَّفَ ظَهْرَ النَّبْعَةِ السَّفَنُ
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