حُلْوٌ

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حُلْوٌ Sweet; contr. of مُرٌّ; i. e., in the mouth: and in like manner, in the eye [meaning pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful: see 1]: applied also to a saying, and to an action: fem. with ة. And الحُلْوُ الحَلَالُ Language in which is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion: (K and TA in art. حل:) and the man in whom is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion. And حُلْوٌ, also, applied to a man, One who is excited to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, (يُسْتَخَفٌّ,) and is esteemed pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye; as also حَلُوٌّ : the fem. is حُلْوَةٌ: the pl. masc. حُلْوُونَ, and pl. fem. حِلْوٌ: there is no broken pl., masc. or fem.

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