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تَنَاوَلَ

Root: نول

Form: 6

Full Definition

تَنَاوَلَVI [He reached, and drank of, the water of the drinking-trough]: said of a camel. (S, art. نوش.)
2 تَنَاوَلَ مِنْ يَدِهِ شَيْئًا He took from his hand a thing; took it with his hand from his hand; syn. تَعَاطَاهُ.
3 [تَنَاوَلَ شَيْئًا He reached a thing; took it with his hand; handed it to himself;] he took a thing with the extended hand; or simply he took a thing; took it with his hand, took hold of it; syn. أَخَذَهُ: best rendered, he took, or reached, or reached and took, a thing, absolutely, or with the hand, or with the extended hand; and in like manner, with the mouth, as in an instance voce رَمَّ, &c.; he helped himself to it .
4 تَنَاوَلَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ He reached, or hit him, with the sword: see نَفَحَهُ: and see تَشَاوَلُوا, and أَطَفَّ.
5 هُوَ قَرِيبُ المُتَنَاوَلِ and سَهْلُ المَتَنَاوَلِ [app. He is one from whom it is easy to take, or receive, gifts, &c.].
6 تَنَاوَلُوا الرِّمَاحَ: see 6 in art. ذوق.
7 تَنَاوَلَهُ بِمَا يَسُوؤُهُ [He carped at him by saying, or taxed or charged him with, that which would grieve him].
8 تناوله بما لَيْسَ فِيهِ [He carped at him by saying, or taxed or charged him with, what was not in him]. (TA, voce اِغْتَابَهُ.)
9 تَنَاوَلَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ He carped at him with his tongue: as also . (TA, art. هلب.)
10 تناول شَيْئًا It applied to a thing.
11 تَنَاوَلَ It comprehended, or comprised: post-classical in this sense, but commonly used.
12 تَنَاوَلَهُ بِمَا يُكُرَهُ He taxed or charged him with, or accused him of a thing disliked, or hated. See also art. نيل; see an explanation of اِغْتَابَهُ, and see ظَهْرٌ.
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