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خون

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تخوّنهُ تخون تخونه تخوننه تخونة وخى خان خون : see 1, last sentence, in two places. You say also, تَخَوَّنَهُمْ meaning He sought [ to discover, or show, ] their خِيَانَة [i. e. treachery, perfidy, or unfaithfulness ], and their slip, lapse, or wrong action; and suspected them, or accused them. (TA.) ― -b2- Also He, or it, diminished it, wasted it, impaired it, or took from it; and so ↓ خوّنهُ, and خوّن مِنْهُ: (K:) or diminished it, wasted it, impaired it, or took from it, by little and little; syn. تَنَقَّصَهُ. (JK, * S, Msb.) You say, تَخَوَنَنِى فُلَانٌ حَقِّى Such a one took from me by little and little of my right, or due. (S, TA.) And Dhu-r-Rummeh says, لَا بَلْ هُوَ الشَّوْقُ مِنْ دَارٍ تَخَوَّنَهَا مَرًّا سَحَابٌ وَمَرًّا بَارِحٌ تَرِبُ [ No, but it is, or was, yearning of the soul arising from a place of abode from which some times raining clouds, and sometimes a hot wind carrying with it dust, took away by little and little, so as gradually to efface the traces thereof]. (S, TA.) And Lebeed says, (S, TA,) describing a she-camel, (TA,) تَخَوَّنَهَا نُزُولِى وَا@رْتِحَالِى [ Which my alighting and my journeying had wasted by little and little; ] i. e. whose flesh and fat my alighting and my journeying had diminished by little and little. (S, TA.) -A2- Also He paid frequent attention to him, or it; or he, or it, returned to him, or it, time after time; syn. تَعَهَّدَهُ; (JK, S, K;) and so ↓ خوّنهُ: (K:) in this sense, the former verb is [said to be] from تخوّلهُ, by the substitution of ن for ل (TA.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, [describing a young gazelle,] لَا يَنْعَشُ الطَّرْفَ اـِلَّا مَا تَخَوَّنَهُ دَاعٍ يُنَادِيهِ بِا@سْمِ المَاآءِ مَبْغُومُ (S,) [ He raises not his eye, or eyes, except when a caller calling him by the sound of مَاآءِ returns to him time after time, addressed by the cry termed بُغَام:] i. e. except when he hears the بُغَام of his mother calling him by the cry مَاآءِ مَاآءِ: (TA in art. بغم: [it is there added, that the pass. part. n. مَبْغُوم is used in this instance for the act. part. n.; but for this I see no sufficient reason:]) he says that the young gazelle is slum bering, not raising his eye, or eyes, unless his mother comes to him time after time: or, as some say, unless his mother's call to him takes by little and little from his sleep. (S in the present art.) One says also الحُمَّىتَخَوَّنُهُ [for تَتَخَوَّنُهُ] The fever returns to him time after time: (S:) or in its time. (TA.)

Derived headwords

تخوّنهُverb
  1. 1.
خوّن مِنْهُ
تَخَوَنَنِى فُلَانٌ حَقِّى
لَا بَلْ هُوَ الشَّوْقُ مِنْ دَارٍ تَخَوَّنَهَا
مَرًّا سَحَابٌ وَمَرًّا بَارِحٌ تَرِبُ
تَخَوَّنَهَا نُزُولِى وَا@رْتِحَالِى
لَا يَنْعَشُ الطَّرْفَ اـِلَّا مَا تَخَوَّنَهُ
دَاعٍ يُنَادِيهِ بِا@سْمِ المَاآءِ مَبْغُومُ
مَاآءِ مَاآءِ