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1 طَحَنَ البُرَّ ذ , aor. طَحَنَ , inf. n. طَحْنٌ, (S, Msb, K,) said of a man, (S,) He ground the wheat; i. e. he made the wheat into دَقِيق [i. e. flour]; and so [but app. in an intensive sense] ↓ طحّنهُ . (K.) ― -b2- [Hence] one says, طَحَنَهُمْ فَأَهْلَكَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) [He crushed them and destroyed them]. (T and M and K in art. دم.) And حَرْبٌ تَطْحَنُ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) [A war that crushes every thing]. (TA. [See also طَحُونٌ.]) And طَحَنَتْهُمُ المَنُونُ (assumed tropical:) [Time, or death, reduced them to dust]. (TA.) ― -b3- And one says also, طَحَنَتِ الرَّحَى [The mill-stone ground; or revolved]. (S.) ― -b4- And [hence,] طَحَنَتِ الأَفْعَى The viper turned round about; or coiled itself. (S, K. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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