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هشّشهُ

Root: هش

Form: 2

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هشّشهُII , Verbal.Noun تَهْشِيشٌ, He deemed him, or reckoned him, weak, or feeble, and soft, or gentle.

def.2 He, or it, rendered him brisk, lively, or sprightly; and joyful, glad, or happy: and it incited him, or excited him, to briskness, liveliness or sprightliness; syn. إِسْتَخَفَّهُ. You say, فُلَانٌ مَا النَّعِيمُ [Such a one, weal, or welfare, does not excite him to briskness, &c.]
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