عَضِهَ
Root: عضه
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 And عَضِهَ العِضَاهَ; as also عَضَهَهَا; or عَضَهَ العِضَاهَ, like مَنَعَ [in form], Verbal.Noun عَضْهٌ; as also , Verbal.Noun تَعْضِيهٌ; He cut the trees called عِضَاه: accord. to AHn, signifies the cutting of the عِضَاه, and the collecting firewood thereof.
def.2 عَضَهَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun عَضْهٌ and عَضَةٌ and عَضِيهَةٌ and عِضْهَةٌ, He lied. And He excited discord, or dissension, and made known discourse in a mischievous manner, or embellished speech with falsehood; or he calumniated; syn. نَمَّ; or بَهَتَ: whence the saying, in a trad., أَتَدْرُونَ مَا العَضْهُ i. e. [Know ye what is] the reporting of conversation, or of what has been said, from one person to another, to make mischief between them? [or,] accord. to IAth, the calumnious speech between men? or, accord. to As, the evil, or foul, speaking? And the same verb, or عَضِهَ, He uttered falsehood and calumny; as also : [whence] one says, قَدْ يَا رَجُلُ Thou hast uttered calumny, O man.
2 And عَضَهَ فُلَانًا, [in some copies of the K عَضِهَ, but it is] like مَنَعَ, [in form], Verbal.Noun عَضْهٌ and عَضِيهَةٌ, He calumniated such a one, and said that there was in him what was not.
3 And عَضَهَهُ, Verbal.Noun عَضْهٌ, He reviled him, or vilified him, plainly [or in coarse language, as is shown by an explanation of it in the R].
4 And عَضَهَ, Verbal.Noun عَضْهٌ and عَضَهٌ and عَضِيهَةٌ and عِضْهَةٌ, He enchanted: because enchantment is a lying, and a causing to imagine that which has no reality: and he divined.
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