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ضايفهُ

Root: ضيف

Form: 3

Full Definition

ضايفهُIII [app. signifies He straitened him: or, perhaps, he became his guest; like ضَافَهُ, &c].
2 [Hence one says,] ضايفهُ الهَمُّ [Anxiety straitened him: or, perhaps, befell him; like ضَافَهُ].
3 [And ضايفهُ, Verbal.Noun مُضَايَفَةٌ, signifies also It was, or became, correlative to it; as, for instance, fathership to sonship. See also the next paragraph.]
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