ضعّفهُ
Root: ضعف
Form: 2
Full Definition
2 Also He reckoned, or esteemed, him ضَعِيف [i. e. weak, &c.]; and so , and تضعّفهُ : or signifies he found him to be so; or he asserted him to be (جَعَلَهُ) so; or, as also تضعّفهُ , he [esteemed him to be so, and therefore] behaved proudly, haughtily, or insolently, towards him, in respect of worldly things, because of [his] poverty, and meanness of condition. غَلَبَنِى أَهْلُ الكُوفَةِ أَسْتَعْمِلُ عَلَيْهِمُ المُؤْمِنَ فَيُضَعَّفُ وَأَسْتَعْمِلُ عَلَيْهِمُ القَوِىَّ فَيُفَجَّرُ, [The people of El-Koofeh have overcome me: I employ as governor over them the believer, and he is esteemed weak; and I employ as governor over them the strong, and he is charged with unrighteousness:] is a saying mentioned in a trad. of 'Omar.
3 And He attributed, or ascribed, to him, i. e. a man, or
def.2 And He doubled it, or made it double, covering one part of it with another part.
2 See also the next paragraph, in two places.
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