انث

2 أنّثهُ ذ , inf. n. تَأْنِيثٌ, He made it (namely, a noun [&c.], S and Msb) feminine; (S, M, L, Msb;) he attached to it, or to that which was syntactically dependent upon it, the sign of the feminine gender. (Msb.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He, or it, rendered him effeminate. (KL.) [See the pass. part. n., below.] -A2- أنّث لَهُ, inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He acted gently, [or effeminately ] towards him; as also له ↓ تأنّث. (K, TA.) And أنّث فِى أَمْرِهِ, inf. n. as above, (T, A,) (tropical:) He acted gently in his affair: (A:) or he applied himself gently to his affair: (T:) and some say, فى امره ↓ تأنّث, meaning he acted effeminately in his affair. (T, TA.)