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8 اخترعهُ أخترعه اخترعه اخترعة ٱخترع ٱخترعه : see 1, first signification. ― -b2- He broke it off; namely a branch, or piece of wood, from a tree. (TA.) ― -b3- He cut it off for himself; or took it; namely, a man's property, &c. (TA.) ― -b4- He acted treacherously towards him, (Aboo-Sa'eed, K,) and took of his property; (K;) as also اختزعهُ, with ز (TA.) ― -b5- He expended it; exhausted it; caused it to pass away and come to an end, or to cease; or made an end of it. (ISh, K.) ― -b6- اخترع الدَّابَّةَ He made use of, or rode, the beast of another person for some days, and then restored it. (Ibn -' Abbád, K.) -A2- He did it, or produced it, without premeditation; syn. اِرْتَجَلَهُ: (TA:) or اِشْتَقَّهُ [app. here meaning he constructed it, or founded it, (بَنَاهُ) without premeditation; this meaning being one assigned to اشتقّه in its proper art. in the TA]: (S:) or he originated it; invented it; devised it; excogitated it; innovated it; made it, did it, produced it, caused it to be or exist, or brought it into existence, newly, for the first time, it not having been or existed before, and not after the similitude of anything preexisting; syn. أَنْشَأَهُ, (S, O, K,) and اِبْتَدَعَهُ, (S, O,) or اِبْتَدَأَهُ. (K.) You say, اخترع ا@للّٰهُ الأَشْيَآءَ God originated, brought into existence, or created, the things [that exist], without any means, or second cause. (TA.) And اخترع بَاطِلًا He forged a falsehood. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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