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حسن

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

10 استحسنهُ أستحسنه استحسنه استحسنة ٱستحسن ٱستحسنه ٱستحسننه He counted, accounted, reckoned, or esteemed, him, or it, حَسَن [i. e. good, goodly, beautiful, comely, pleasing, &c.; he approved, thought well of, or liked, him, or it ]; (S, K;) as also ↓ حسّنهُ, inf. n. تَحْسِينٌ. (Har p. 594.) Hence the saying, صَرْفُ هٰذَا ا@سْتِحْسَانٌ وَ المَنْعُ قِيَاسٌ [ The making this word perfectly declinable is approvable, but the making it imperfectly declinable is agreeable with analogy ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

استحسنهُverb
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صَرْفُ هٰذَا ا@سْتِحْسَانٌ وَ المَنْعُ قِيَاسٌ