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5 تَخَوَّضَ see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- تخوّض also signifies He constrained himself to wade, or ford, in, or through, water. (K, * TA.) This is the primary signification: and hence, ― -b3- تخوّض فِى الأَمْرِ (tropical:) He employed, or occupied, himself in the affair: and he used art or artifice or cunning, or his own judgment or discretion, in the affair, or in the disposal or management thereof: and so in the phrase تخوّض فى المَالِ: or, accord. to some, this means he acted wrongly in acquiring the property in an improper manner, in whatsoever way it was possible. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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