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هدء

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

هُوَ أَهْدَأُ مِمَّا كَانَ ذ (tropical:) He is more quiet, or more at rest, than he was: i. e., he is dead. From a trad. Said by Umm-Suleym to Aboo-Talhah, respecting her son, to comfort the heart of his father. (TA.) -A2- أَهْدَأُ i. q. أَجْنَأُ, Having a curving back, &c.: (K:) humpbacked: (S:) or a person having the shoulders depressed, and even, and inclining towards the breast; not erect or elevated: fem. هَدْاآءُ: you also say مَنْكِبٌ أَهْدَأُ a shoulder such as is described immediately above: and أَهْدَأُ a crooked man: (Lth, and others:) also a shoulder of which the upper part is swollen, or filled with fat and flesh, and its strength relaxed. (K: in some copies of which we read استرخى حيله: in others, حمله: [the former is the reading that I adopt].) ― -b2- هَدْاآءُ (so in the CK and a MS. copy: in the TA, ↓ هَدْأَةٌ, [which seems to be an error];) A she-camel having her hump bent by much lading, (K,) and the soft hair (وَبَر) sticking upon it, without its being wounded. (TA.)

Derived headwords

هُوَ أَهْدَأُ مِمَّا كَانَ
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مَنْكِبٌ أَهْدَأُ