فطّنهُ
Root: فطن
Form: 2
Full Definition
فطّنهُII
, Verbal.Noun تَفْطِينٌ, He made him to understand, or know, the affair: or he made him knowing in the various modes of the affair, and skilful therein. Hence the prov., لَا يُفَطِّنُ القَارَةَ إِلَّا
الحِجَارَة i. e. [Nothing will make] the she-bear [to understand, except stones]. And فطّنهُ
المُعَلِّمُ means The teacher rendered him
فَطِن [i. e. intelligent, &c.,] by the disciplining of his mind and the correcting him.
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