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خضع

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 اخضع أخضع اخضع خضع , intrans.: see 1, in two places. -A2- اخضعهُ It (poverty) lowered, humbled, or abased, him; (Msb;) [as also ↓ خضّعهُ; for its inf. n.] تَخْضيعٌ signifies the rendering lowly, humble, or submissive; in Persian, فَرُوتَنْ كَرْدَانِيدَنْ. (KL. [But Golius, from the same source, explains the verb as signifying “ Submissum humilemque se commonstravit. ”]) [Hence,] أَخْضَعَتَنِى اـِلَيْكَ الحَاجَةُ (Zj, S, TA) Want, or need, [ made me lowly, humble, or submissive, to thee; or ] constrained me to have recourse to thee, and to require thine aid. (TA.) ― -b2- See also 1, near the end of the paragraph.

Derived headwords

اخضعverb
  1. 1.
فَرُوتَنْ كَرْدَانِيدَنْ
أَخْضَعَتَنِى اـِلَيْكَ