Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سِهّلهُ

Root: سهل

Form: 2

Full Definition

سِهّلهُII , Verbal.Noun تَسْهِيلٌ, i. q. صَيَّرَهُ سَهْلًا [which may mean He rendered it smooth or soft, plain or level, or smooth and soft; namely, a place &c.: or what next follows].
2 He made it easy; he facilitated it; namely, a thing; said of God [and of a man].
3 One says, سَهَّلَ سَبِيلَ المَآءِ [He smoothed, made easy, or prepared, the way, course, passage, or channel, of the water], (S and K in art. اتى,) in order that it might pass forth to a place. And سهّل مَسِيلًا لِمَآءٍ [He smoothed, made easy, or prepared, a channel for water].
4 And سهّل ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ الأَمْرَ, and لَكَ, a form of prayer, meaning May God [make easy, or facilitate, to thee the affair; or] take upon Himself, for thee, the burden of the affair; and lighten [it] to thee. [And in like manner سهّل ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ is often said with الأَمْرَ or أَمْرَكَ understood.]
5 [And أَهَّلَ بِهِ وَسَهَّلَ, or أَهَّلَهُ وَسَهَّلَهُ, inf. ns. تَأْهِيلٌ and تَسْهِيلٌ, He said to him أَهْلًا , meaning (as expl. in the Msb in art. اهل) أَتَيْتَ قَوْمًا أَهْلًا وَمَوْضِعًا سَهْلًا, i. e. Thou hast come to a people who are like kinsfolk, and to a place that is smooth, plain, or not rugged: see أَهَّلَ and أَهْلٌ: and see also Ham p. 184.]


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