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2 سخّرهُ ذ , inf. n. تَسْخِيرٌ, He constrained him, or compelled him, (JK, S, K,) namely, a servant, or a beast, to do what he [the latter] did not desire, (JK, TA,) or to work, without recompense, or hire, or wages, (S, K,) and without price; (TA;) as also ↓ تسخّرهُ : (S, Mgh, * K:) and [in like manner,] ↓ سَخَرَهُ , aor. سَخَرَ , inf. n. سِخْرِىٌّ and سُخْرِىٌّ, he constrained him to do what he did not desire; compelled him: (K:) or سخّرهُ, he made use of him without compensation, (A, Msb,) فِى العَمَلِ [in work]. (Msb.) You say, ↓ تَسَخَّرْتُ دَابَّةً لِفُلَانٍ I rode a beast belonging to such a one without recompense. (TA.) ― -b2- He brought him under, or into subjection; rendered him subservient, submissive, tractable, or manageable. (S, K.) You say, سخّر ا@للّٰهُ الإِِبِلَ God hath made the camels subservient, or submissive, and manageable. (Msb.) And in the Kur [xiv. 37], it is said, وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ ا@لشَّمْسَ وَا@لْقَمَرَ (assumed tropical:) And He hath made subservient to you, or submissive for you, the sun and the moon [to run their appointed courses]. (TA.) سُخِّرَ لَهُ [as also له ↓ تُسُخِّرَ ] signifies (assumed tropical:) It (anything) was rendered submissive or manageable or practicable, to him, or prepared or disposed for him agreeably with his desire. (TA.) You say also, سخّر ا@للّٰهُ السَّفِينَةَ, inf. n. تَسْخِيرٌ, (tropical:) God made the ship to obey and to run its course; to have a good wind and voyage. (TA.) سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ, in the Kur lxix. 7, means (assumed tropical:) He sent it upon them by force; namely, the wind: (Jel:) or made it to prevail against them by his power. (Bd.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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