تَسَاهُلٌ
Root: سهل
Form: 6
Full Definition
تَسَاهُلٌVI
is syn. with
تَسَامُحٌ. You say تساهلوا meaning They acted in an easy, or a facile, manner, one with another; (MA, TA in art. يسر;) or gently; syn. تَيَاسَرُوا.
2 See also 3.
3 [In the present day it is used as meaning The being negligent, or careless, فِى أَمْرٍ in an affair.]
4 [As a conventional term in lexicology, or in relation to language, it means A careless mode of expression occasioning] a deficiency in the language of a [writer or] speaker without reliance upon the understanding of [the reader or] the person addressed: or it means [sometimes such a mode of expression] that a phrase is not correct if held to be used according to the proper meaning, but is correct if held to be used according to a tropical meaning: or the mention of the whole when meaning a part. [See also تَسَامُحٌ, for which it is often used.]
2 See also 3.
3 [In the present day it is used as meaning The being negligent, or careless, فِى أَمْرٍ in an affair.]
4 [As a conventional term in lexicology, or in relation to language, it means A careless mode of expression occasioning] a deficiency in the language of a [writer or] speaker without reliance upon the understanding of [the reader or] the person addressed: or it means [sometimes such a mode of expression] that a phrase is not correct if held to be used according to the proper meaning, but is correct if held to be used according to a tropical meaning: or the mention of the whole when meaning a part. [See also تَسَامُحٌ, for which it is often used.]
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