Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

ثَخُنَ, (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَثْخُنُ}; (Ḳ;) and ثَخَنَ, (El-Aḥmar, ISd, Mṣb, TA,) aor. ـُ {يَثْخُنُ}; (TA;) inf. n. ثَخَانَةٌ (T, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ, &c.) and ثُخُونَةٌ (ISd, Mṣb, Ḳ) and ثِخَنٌ (Z, Mṣb, Ḳ) and ثُخْنٌ; (TA;) It (a thing, Ṣ, Mṣb) was, or became, thick, big, gross, or coarse; and hard, firm, stiff, tough, or strong: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) it was, or became, thick, dense, or compact: (M, TA:) [it (a garment, or piece of cloth,) was thick, or close, in texture: (see ثَخِينٌ:)] it [a semiliquid of any kind] was, or became, thick, so that it did not flow, nor continue in its passing away. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

اثخنهُ [in its primary sense, He, or it, rendered it ثَخِين, i. e. thick,, &c.]

[And hence,] ‡ He, or it, (a man, JK, T, Mgh, Mṣb, and a wound, Ṣ, Mgh, and disease, Bḍ in viii. 68,) rendered him heavy: (JK, T, Bḍ ubi suprà, TA:) or weakened him, rendered him languid, or enervated him. (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA.) You say, اثخنهُ ضَرْبًا † He rendered him heavy by beating: (JK:) or he beat him much, or vehemently, or excessively. (TA.) And أَثْخَنْتُهُ بِالجِراحَةِ † I weakened him, rendered him languid, or enervated him, by the wound, or wounds. (Mṣb.)

إِذَا أَثْخَنْتُمُوهُمْ, in the Ḳur xlvii. 4, means † When ye have made much slaughter among them: (Jel:) or when ye have made a great and vehement slaughter of them: (Bḍ:) or when ye have overcome them, and wounded them much, or inflicted many wounds upon them, (Abu-l-ʼAbbás, Ḳ, TA,) so that they give with their hands. (Abu-l-ʼAbbás, TA.)

اثخن فِى العَدُوِّ ‡ He made a great, or vehement, slaughter, (A,) or a great, or vehement, wounding, (Ḳ,) among the enemy. (A, Ḳ.)

اثخن فِى الأَرْضِ, † He made much slaughter in the earth, or land: (Bḍ in viii. 68, Mgh, TA: in the Ṣ, اثخن فِى الأَرْضِ قَتْلًا, which means the same: TA:) or he went against the enemy, and made a wide, or large, slaughter of them [in the land]: (Mṣb:) or he fought vehemently in the earth, or land. (Jel in viii. 68.)

اثخن فِى الأَمْرِ † He exceeded the usual, or the just, bounds, or degree, in the affair; strove, or exerted himself, vigorously, or strenuously, therein; or did his utmost therein. (TA.)

اثخنهُ قُوْلُهُ † His saying took, or had, an effect upon him; or distressed, or afflicted, him. (TA.)

أَثْخَنْتُ فُلَانًا مَعْرِفَةً ‡ I knew such a one, or was acquainted with him, thoroughly, or very well. (TA.)

اثّخن, in the saying of El-Asshà,

* تَمَهَّلَ فِى الحَرْبِ حَتَّى ٱثَّخَنَ *

[He acted deliberately in war until he became heavy, or weakened, or languid, or enervated, by wounds], is contracted by idghám from اثْتَخَنَ. (Ṣ, TA.)

استثخن مِنْهُ النَّوْمُ ‡ Sleep overcame him. (JK, Ḳ, TA.) استثخن بَيْنَ المَرَضِ وَالإِعْيَآءِ ‡ He became overcome by [lit. between] disease and fatigue. (A, TA.)

ثُخْنٌ an inf. n. of ثَخُنَ: [commonly used as a simple subst., meaning Thickness,, &c.:] one says ثُوْبٌ لَهُ ثُخْنٌ [A garment, or piece of cloth, having thickness, or closeness, of texture]. (TA.)

ثَخَنٌ i. q. نقلة [app. a mistranscription for ثَقْلَةٌ or ثَقَلَةٌ, meaning † A heaviness in the chest or body, or a heaviness and langour, or a heaviness on the heart]; as alsoثَخَنَةٌ↓: El-ʼAjjáj says,

* حَتَّى يَعِجَّ ثَخَنًا مَنْ عَجْعَجَا *

[app. meaning So that he who cries out cries out by reason of heaviness,, &c.]: (TA: [this saying is also cited in the Ṣ, in art. عج; but there, in one copy, I find ثَخِنًا; and in another, ثِخَنًا; and in both, مِنْ instead of مَنْ:]) and hence he received the surname of العَجَّاج: (Ṣ and TA in art. عج:) so says IDrd. (TA in that art.) [Golius explains ثَخَنٌ as meaning “crassities, spissitudo;” on the anthority of Ibn-Maạroof and Ibn-Beytár; but I suspect that he found ثَخَنٌ in their works written for ثُخْنٌ or ثِخَنٌ, both inf. ns. of ثَخُنَ.]

ثَخِينٌ part. n. of ثَخُنَ; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) Thick, big, coarse, or gross; and hard, firm, stiff, tough, or strong: (Ṣ:) [thick, dense, or compact:, &c.: see 1: pl. ثِخَانٌ.] You say ثَوْبٌ ثَخِينٌ A garment, or piece of cloth, thick, or close, or full, in texture, and, as Az adds, in warp. (TA.)

Applied to a man, Completely armed: (KL:) or ثَخِينُ السِّلَاحِ has this meaning. (Ṣ.)

Also (JK, TA) ‡ Forbearing, clement, grave, sedate, or calm: (JK, Ḳ,* TA: [in some copies of the Ḳ, الحَكِيمُ is erroneously put for الحَلِيمُ:]) in the M, heavy in his sitting-place. (TA.)

[مُثْخَنٌ pass. part. n. of 4, q. v.]. You say, تَرَكْتُهُ مُثْخَنًا وَقِيذًا [I left him weakened, languid, enervated, or much wounded; beaten until he was at the point of death]. (TA.)

† Forbearing, clement, grave, sedate, or calm, in mind, or intellect. (TA.) [See also ثَخِينٌ.]

Metonymically applied by the people of Syria to ‡ One who causes laughter; who is quick, brisk, or lively, in his motions. (TA.)

مُثْخِنٌ † One who exceeds the usual, or the just, bounds, or who does his utmost, in narration, and in the rehearsal of sayings. (TA.)

And, with ة {مُثْخِنَةٌ}, ‡ A large, corpulent, fleshy, woman. (JK, A, Ḳ.)