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علث

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تعلّث ذ He, or it, clung, clave, or held fast, (O, K, TA,) بِهِ to it [or him ]. (TK. [See also 5 in art. غلث.]) -A2- Also He made, or did, [a thing] faultily, or unsoundly. (O, K.) [Accord. to the TK, one says, تعلّث السَّهْمَ, meaning He made the arrow faultily, or unsoundly: but this is perhaps a mistake: see 8.] ― -b2- And i. q. تَمَحَّلَ: (K:) Fr says, تَعَلَّثْتُ لَهُ الذُّنُوبَ is like تَمَحَّلْتُ [app. meaning I laboured, and exercised art or management, in seeking to do to him misdeeds: see art. محل]. (O.)

Derived headwords

تعلّثverb
  1. 1.
تعلّث السَّهْمَ
تَعَلَّثْتُ لَهُ الذُّنُوبَ