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فَخَّذَ

Root: فخذ

Form: 2

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فَخَّذَII see 5, in two places.
2 فخّذ عَشِيرَتَهُ He called his عشيرة [or kinsfolk] فَخِذ by فَخِذ [i. e. one small body of families after another], Verbal.Noun تَفْخِيذٌ: from a trad.
3 And فَخَّذَهُمْ, Verbal.Noun as above; or فخّذ بَيْنَهُمْ; He dispersed them, and abstained from aiding them; syn. فَرَّقَهُمْ وَخَذَلَهُمْ: and فخّذهم عَنْ فُلَانٍ, Verbal.Noun as above, signifies خذلهم, or خذّلهم عَنْهُ [which is evidently the right reading , and I believe it to be the right reading also in the explanation given immediately before from the L and K]: and فخّذ بَيْنَهُمْ he dispersed them.
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