حلو

2 حلّاهُ حل حلا حلاه حلاة حلى حلية , (S, K, [erroneously written in the CK without the sheddeh,]) inf. n. تَحْلِيَةٌُ, (K,) He made it sweet; (S, K;) namely, food; (S;) or a thing; (K;) as also ↓ احلاهُ: (S:) and so حَلَّأَهُ, which is anomalous: (K:) sometimes they said, حَلَّأْتُ السَّوِيقَ [ I sweetened the meal of parched barley, or the mess made thereof ]; pronouncing with hemz that which is not [properly] with hemz: (S:) this is said by Lth to be a mistake on their part. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حَلَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ فِى عَيْنِ صَاحِبِهِ [ I made the thing to seem pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye of its possessor ]. (S.)