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رنّحهُ

Root: رنح

Form: 2

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رنّحهُII , [Verbal.Noun as below,] said of wine (شَرَاب), It made him to incline from side to side. [Also, as appears from what follows, It made him to incline and go round. It made him giddy in the head, and confused: it affected him with giddiness in the head like one in a swoon.] It deprived him of his strength by reason of its potency. [And, said of a beating, and app. of intoxication &c., It made him to swoon, or faint: for,] when you have beaten a person so that he swoons, or faints, you say, ضَرَبْتُهُ حَتَّى رَنَّحْتُهُ. [Hence, رُنِّحَ He was made to incline from side to side: رَنَّحَ is expl. in the TA in a similar sense, as said of a man &c.; but it is app. a mistranscription for رُنِّحَ]: see 5. He was made to incline and go round. It is said, by Imra-el-Keys, of a dog gored by a wild bull. He was giddy in the head, and confused: and رُنِّحَ بِهِ he was affected with giddiness in the head like one in a swoon. Also, and رُنِّحَ عَلَيْهِ Verbal.Noun تَرْنِيحٌ, He swooned, or fainted; or was affected by a weakness of the bones, and of the body; by reason of beating or fright or intoxication, and sometimes by reason of anxiety, and grief, or sorrow; and inclined from side to side.
2 رَنَّحَتِ الرِّيحُ الغُصْنَ The wind made the branch to incline from side to side.
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