Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

حَلَا, aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) and حَلِىَ, aor. ـَ {يَحْلَوُ}; and حَلُوَ, aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}; (Ḳ;) inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) and حَلْوٌ and حُلْوَانٌ; (Ḳ;) It (a thing, Ṣ, Mṣb) was, or became, sweet; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoاحلولى↓; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) or this latter signifies it was, or became, very sweet. (TA.) And in like manner, حَلَالِى [It was, or became, sweet to me]. (Mṣb.) And حَلُوَتِ الفَاكِهَةُ, aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}, inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ, [The fruit was, or became, sweet.] (TA.)

حَلِىَ بِعَيْنِى (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) and فِى عَيْنِى (Ṣ) and بِصَدْرِى (Ṣ, Mṣb) and فِى صَدْرِى (Ṣ) and بِقَلْبِى, (Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَحْلَوُ}; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) and حَلَا, aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) and حُلْوَانٌ; (Ḳ;) He, (Ṣ,) or it, (Mṣb,) pleased me, or excited my admiration; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) was goodly, or beautiful, in my estimation: (Mṣb:) or one says, حَلِىَ فِى عَيْنِى (Lth, Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ *) or فِى صَدْرِى, (Aṣ, TA,) aor. ـَ {يَحْلَوُ}, inf. n. حُلْوَانٌ; (Lth, TA;) and حَلَا فى فَمِى, (Lth, Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ,*) aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}, inf. n. حَلْوٌ (Lth, TA) and حَلَاوَةٌ. (TA.) تَحْلَى بِهِ العَيْنُ is an inverted phrase, used by a poet, for يَحْلَى بِالْعَيْنِ. (Ṣ.) It has been said that حَلِىَ فِى عَيْنِى (ISd, and Ḳ in art. حلى) and فِى صَدْرى (ISd) is from الحَلْىُ, (ISd, Ḳ,) meaning the thing that is worn, because it signifies It was beautiful in my eye, like the حَلْى; not from حَلَاوَةٌ; (ISd, and TA in art. حلى;) but this saying is not valid, nor approved. (TA in the present art.) Accord. to Lḥ, one says, حَلِيَتِ المَرْأَةُ بِعَيْنِى and فِى عَيْنِى, and بِقَلْبِى and فِى قَلْبِى, aor. ـَ {يَحْلَوُ}, inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; and حَلَتْ, aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}, inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; [The woman was pleasing in my eye, and in my mind, or heart.] (TA.)

مَايَمُرُّ وَمَا يَحْلُو ‡ He is not bitter at one time, and he is not sweet at another. (IAạr, Ḳ, TA. [In some copies of the Ḳ, وَلَا يَحْلُو.]) And أَمَرُّ وَأَحْلُو and أَمُرُّ وَأَحْلُو ‡ I am bitter at one time, and I am sweet at one time. (IAạr, M in art. مر.) [See also 4.]

حَلِىَ الشَّىْءَ, aor. ـَ {يَحْلَوُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; (TḲ;) andاستحلاهُ↓, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) from الحَلَاوَةُ, like استجادهُ from الجَوْدَةُ, (Ṣ,) [the most common form,] andتحلّاهُ↓, (Ḳ,) andاحلولاهُ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) which is the only trans. verb of its measure except one other, in the phrase اِعْرَوْرَيْتُ الفَرَسَ; (Ṣ;) all signify the same; (Ḳ;) He esteemed the thing sweet [both properly and metaphorically as is indicated in the TA]: (Mṣb in explanation of the second of these verbs, and TḲ in explanation of all of them:) and [in like manner] أَحْلَيْتُهُ↓ I found it to be sweet: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or this signifies I made it sweet: (Ḳ:) or it has both of these significations: (Ṣ:) you say, أَحْلَيْتُ هٰذَا المَكَانَ, meaningاِسْتَحْلَيْتُهُ↓ [I esteemed, or found, this place to be sweet, or pleasant]. (TA.) And حَلِيَتْهُ العَيْنُ [The eye esteemed, or found, him, or it, to be pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful]. (IAạr, TA in art. حلى.)

حَلِىَ مِنْهُ بِخَيْرٍ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَحْلَوُ}; (TA;) and حَلَا, (Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}; (TA;) He found, or experienced, or he got, or obtained, from him, or it, good. (Ḳ.) [See also 1 in art. حلى.]

حَلَاهُ الشَّىْءَ, (Mṣb,* Ḳ,) or حَلَاهُ كَذَا مَالًا, (Ṣ,) aor. ـُ {يَحْلُوُ}, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) inf. n. حَلْوٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ [in the CK حُلْو]) and حُلْوَانٌ, (Ṣ,) He gave him (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) the thing, (Ḳ,) or such a piece of property, [as a gratuity,] for something that he had done; not as hire, or pay, or wages. (Ṣ.)

You say also حَلَوْتُ meaning I bribed another; gave him a bribe. (TA.)

Andلَأَحْلُوَنَّكَ حُلْوَانَكَ↓ I will assuredly give thee thy requital. (IAạr, Ḳ.)

حُلْوَانٌ also signifies A man's taking for himself a portion of the dowry of his daughter: an act for which the Arabs used to reproach him who did it. (Ṣ, Mṣb.) You say, حَلَاهُ, inf. n. حَلْوٌ [in the CK حُلْوٌ, and حُلُوٌّ also,] and حُلْوَانٌ, He gave him in marriage his daughter, or his sister, (Ḳ, TA,) or any woman, (TA,) for a certain dowry, on the condition that he should assign to him a certain portion of it. (Ḳ, TA.)

حَلَوْتُ المَرْأَةَ i. q. حَلَيْتُهَا, i. e. I assigned, or gave, to the woman حُلِىّ [or ornaments]. (Ṣ.)

حلّاهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ, [erroneously written in the CK without the sheddeh,]) inf. n. تَحْلِيَةٌ, (Ḳ,) He made it sweet; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) namely, food; (Ṣ;) or a thing; (Ḳ;) as alsoاحلاهُ↓: (Ṣ:) and so حَلَّأَهُ, which is anomalous: (Ḳ:) 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: (Ṣ:) this is said by Lth to be a mistake on their part. (TA.)

[Hence,] حَلَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ فِى عَيْنِ صَاحِبِهِ [I made the thing to seem pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye of its possessor]. (Ṣ.)

حَالَيْتُهُ, (inf. n. مُحَالَاةٌ, TḲ,) ‡ I jested, or joked, with him. (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA.)

see 2.

Hence, (TA,) مَا أَمَرَّ وَمَاأَحُلَى † He said not anything: (Ṣ, TA:) or the meaning is similar to that of the phrase next following. (TA.) مَا يُمِرُّ وَمَا يُحْلِى † He says not a bitter thing nor a sweet thing: and he does not a bitter thing nor a sweet thing. (Ḳ.) [See a similar phrase near the middle of the first paragraph.]

See also another signification in the first paragraph.

مَا أَحْلَاهُ [How sweet,, &c., is it!] is said by some to be an instance of a verb having a dim. form; so that you say, مَا أُحَيْلَاهُ↓ [How very sweet,, &c., is it!]; like مَا أُمَيْلِحَهُ [q. v.]. (TA in art. ملح.)

تَحَالَتْ She (a woman) affected, or made a show of, sweetness, and self-conceitedness. (Ṣ.)

احتلى لِينَفَقَةِ ٱمْرَأَتِهِ, and لِمَهْرِهَا, He exercised art, or ingenuity, for [the purpose of procuring] the expenses of his wife, and her dowry: one says, اِحْتَلِ فَتَزَوَّجْ [Exercise thou art,, &c., and marry]. (TA.)

see 1, in two places.

استحلاهُ also signifies He sought [to elicit] its, or his, sweetness. (TA.)

احلولى: see 1, first sentence.

[Hence,] said of a man, He was, or became, sweet in disposition. (IAạr.)

احلولاهُ: see 1.

حَلًا A medicine mixed, or moistened, with water or the like. (Ḳ.)

حُلْوٌ Sweet; contr. of مُرٌّ; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) i. e., in the mouth: and in like manner, in the eye [meaning pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful: see 1]: (TA:) applied also to a saying, and to an action: (Ḳ:) fem. with ة {حُلْوَةٌ}. (Mṣb.) And الحُلْوُ الحَلَالُ † Language in which is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion: (Ḳ and TA in art. حل:) and the man in whom is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion. (TA in the present art.) And حُلْوٌ, also, applied to a man, † One who is excited to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, (يُسْتَخَفٌّ,) and is esteemed pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye; (Ḳ,* TA;) as alsoحَلُوٌّ↓: (IAạr, Ḳ:) the fem. is حُلْوَةٌ: the pl. masc. حُلْوُونَ, and pl. fem. حِلْوٌ: (Ḳ:) there is no broken pl., masc. or fem. (TA.)

حُلْوٌ A small حَفّ [q. v., in the CK, erroneously, خُفّ,] with which one weaves: (Ḳ, TA:) or the wooden thing which the weaver turns round: [app. meaning the yarn-beam, upon which the yarn is rolled; termed حَفَّةٌ:] the poet Shemmákh likens the tongue of a braying [wild] ass to a حِلْو that has slipped from the back of a loom. (TA.)

حَلْوَآءُ andحَلْوَى↓, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ, &c.,) the latter mentioned by Aṣ, of the fem. gender, (TA,) [Sweetmeat; as alsoحَلَاوَةٌ↓; (see حَلَّآءٌ, below;) this last and حَلْوَى used in this sense in the present day;] an eatable, (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb,) well known, (Ḳ,) prepared with sweetness; (T, M, Mṣb;) said to be peculiarly applied to such as is prepared with art [as distinguished from such as in naturally sweet]: (TA:) the حلواء mentioned in a trad. is said to be that which is termed مَجِيع [made of dates kneaded with milk]: (MF, TA:) the pl. of حَلْوَى is حَلَاوَى, with fet-ḥ to the و. (Mṣb.)

The former is also applied by some to Fruit: syn. فَاكِهَةٌ: (T, TA:) or both, (Ḳ,) or the former, (TA,) to sweet fruit. (Ḳ, TA.)

See also حُلَاوَة.

حُلْوَانٌ is a subst. [as well as an inf. n.], signifying A gift: (Mṣb:) [a gratuity: so in the present day:] the hire, or pay, of a broker; (Lḥ, Ḳ;) and of a diviner, (Aṣ, Ṣ,* Mṣb,* Ḳ,) for divination, (Aṣ,) which is forbidden in a trad.: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) and a requital; see 1. (IAạr, Ḳ.) Also The dowry, or nuptial gift, of a woman: (Mṣb, Ḳ:) [or a portion thereof which the father or guardian of the bride used, in some cases, to take for himself; see 1:] or a gift to a woman in consideration of having her as a wife during a certain fixed period; (Ḳ;) according to a practice obtaining in Mekkeh: (TA:) or a gift of the nature of a bride. (Ḳ.)

قَوْلٌ حَلِىٌّ A saying sweet in the mouth. (Ḳ.)

نَاقَةٌ حَلِيَّةٌ (Lḥ, M, Ḳ) andحَلُوَّةٌ↓, (Ḳ,) the latter is the original form [but app. obsolete], (Lḥ, M,) A she-camel eminent, (Lḥ, M,) or perfect, (Ḳ,) in pleasingness, or goodliness, or beauty: (Lḥ, M, Ḳ:) or pleasing in appearance and pace. (TA in art. علو.)

حَلَاوَةٌ Sweetness; contr. of مَرَارَةٌ. (TA.) [See 1, of which it is an inf. n.]

See also حَلْوَآءُ.

أَرْضٌ حَلَاوَةٌ Land that produces herbs, or leguminous plants, of the kind termed ذُكُور [q. v.]. (Ḳ.)

See also what next follows.

حُلَاوَةُ القَفَا (T, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) andحَلَاوَةُ↓ القفا, (IAth, Ḳ,) but this is said by Ks to be unknown, (TA,) andحِلَاوَةُ↓ القفا (IAth) andحُلَآءَةُ↓ القفا, (Ḳ, TA,) with damm, mentioned by Lḥ, (TA, [in the CK حَلاءَة,]) andحَلْوَآءُ↓ القفا (Ṣgh, Ḳ) andحُلَاوَى↓ القفا andحَلَاوَآءُ↓ القفا, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) The middle of the back of the neck: (T, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or, as some say, the [small protuberance termed] فَأْس of [or rather above] the back of the neck. (T.)

حُلَاوَةٌ is also said to signify the same as حُلَآءَةٌ, i. e. What is rubbed between two stones, to be used as a collyrium. (TA. [See the latter of these two words in art. حلأ.])

حُلَاوَى A certain plant: (Ṣ:) or a certain small tree, (Ḳ,) of the kind termed جَنْبَة, evergreen: (TA:) and, (Ḳ,) or, as some say, (TA,) a certain thorny plant, (Ḳ,) having a yellow flower, and small round leaves like those of the سَذَاب [or rue]: (TA:) a species of plant found in the desert: (T, TA:) pl. حُلَاوَى, (Ḳ,) like the sing., (TA,) and, (Ḳ,) or, as some say, (TA,) حُلَاوَيَاتٌ. (Ḳ.) It has been said that the sing. is حَلَاوِيَةٌ, like رَبَاعِيَةٌ: but Az says that this was not known by him: Aṣ mentions, as of the measure فُعَالَى, the words خُزَامَى and رُخَامَى and حُلَاوَى: each the name of a plant. (TA.)

حُلَاوَى القَفَا: see حُلَاوَة.

حَلَاوَآءُ القَفَا: see حُلَاوَة.

حَلَّآءٌ A maker and seller of حَلَاوَة [or sweetmeat]. (TA.)

[أَحْلَى More, and most, sweet, both properly and metaphorically:] حُلْوَى↓ is [its fem.,] the contr. of مُرَّى: you say, خُذِ الحُلْوَى وَأَعْطِهِ المُرَّى [Take thou the sweeter, or sweetest, and give to him the bitterer, or bitterest]. (Ṣ.)