Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مِخْلَطٌ

Root: خلط

Full Definition

مِخْلَطٌ One who renders things confused, or dubious, to the hearers and beholders.
2 One who mixes in, or enters into, (يُخَالِطُ,) affairs, and relinquishes them; (TA; [but this addition seems rather to apply to مِزْيَلٌ in what follows;]) as also مِخْلَاطٌ : or this latter signifies one who mixes much with men. [See also خَلِيطٌ.] You say, هُوَ مِخْلَطٌ مِزْيَلٌ [He is one who mixes in, or enters into, affairs; (and, accord. to an explanation of مِزْيَلٌ in the TA, in art. زيل, on the authority of IAth,) one who is vehement in altercation, or litigation, relinquishing one plea, or argument, and taking to another]; like as you say, هُوَ رَاتِقٌ فَاتِقٌ.


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