حَذَفَهُ

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حَذَفَهُI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun حَذْفٌ, He cut it off: or he cut it [so as to lessen it] at its extremity; he cut off somewhat from the extremity of it; he curtailed it; as, for instance, the tail of a beast: and he made it to fall; dropped it; rejected it. One says, حَذَفْتُ مِنْ شَعَرِى, or من شَعَرِهِ, and من ذَنَبِ الدَّابَّةِ, [شَيْئًا being understood,] I took, or cut off, [somewhat] from my hair, [or his hair,] and from the tail of the beast; I clipped it. And حَذَفَ الشَّعَرَ [He clipped the hair]: said of a cupper. And الثَّوْبَ He cut off a piece from the garment, or cloth. And حَذَفْتُ رَأْسَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ I cut off a portion of his head with the sword: I struck his head with the sword and cut off a portion of it.
2 Also, Verbal.Noun as above, He elided it, struck it off or out, or rejected it; namely, a letter, [and a syllable,] from a word: he omitted it. [ He suppressed it; namely, a word of a proposition or sentence.] And حَذَفَ السَّلَامَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He made the salutation to be light [of utterance], and concise; i. e., the salutation in prayer. And حَذَفَ فِى قَوْلِهِ, and فى الأَذَانِ, and القِرَآءَةِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He was concise, and quick, in his saying, and in the call to prayer, and the recitation, or reading.
3 حَذَفَهُ بِالعَصَا He struck him, or beat him, with the staff, or stick: and he cast, or threw, at him the staff, or stick. It is said in a prov. of the Arabs, mentioned by Sb, إِيَّاكُمْ وَ أَنْ يَحْذِفَ أَحَدُكُمُ الأَرْنَبَ, i. e. [Beware ye] lest any one of you cast at, or shoot, the hare: because this animal is of evil omen. (TA. [But the reading there given is ايّاى: an evident mistranscription.]) Or حَذَفَهُ, Verbal.Noun as above, signifies He struck, or he cast at, or shot, him, or it, from one side.
4 [Hence,] حَذَفَ فُلَانًا بِجَائِزَةٍ He gave such a one a gift.
5 And حَذَفَ بِهَا He broke wind.
6 حَذَفَ فِى مَشْيَتِهِ He moved about his side and his hinder parts in his gait: and he went with short steps.

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