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قرّدهُ

Root: قرد

Form: 2

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قرّدهُII , Verbal.Noun تَقْرِيدٌ, He plucked off his قِرْدَان [or ticks]: it lighted upon him , and picked off his قِرْدَان [or ticks].
2 [Hence,] He rendered him submissive, or tractable: because a camel, when he is freed from his ticks (قِرْدَان), becomes quiet. [And, of a camel it is said,] قرّد, he became submissive, and tractable. [And] قرّدهُ, and نَزَعَ , [signify] He beguiled him and wheedled, or cajoled, him; because a man, when he desires to take a refractory camel, first plucks off his ticks (يُقَرِّدُهُ). See also قَرِدَ.
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