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8 اقترح رَكِيَّةً ذ (A) or بِئْرًا, (K,) and ↓ قَرَحَهَا , (A, K,) He dug a well (A, K) in a place in which one had not been dug, (A,) or in a place wherein water was not [as yet] found. (K.) ― -b2- اُقْتُرِحَ and ↓ قُرِحَ , said of an arrow, (assumed tropical:) It was begun to be made. (TA.) ― -b3- اقترح الجَمَلَ (tropical:) He rode the camel before it had been ridden [by any other person]. (S, A, K. *) ― -b4- And اقترح (tropical:) He originated, invented, or excogitated, a thing; made it, did it, produced it, or caused it to be or exist, for the first time; (IAar, Msb, K, TA;) spontaneously, without his having heard it; (IAar, TA;) or without there having been any precedent. (Msb.) (assumed tropical:) He elicited a thing, without having heard it. (K.) And (tropical:) He uttered, or composed, a speech, or discourse, or the like, extemporaneously; without premeditation. (S, A, K, TA.) ― -b5- Also (tropical:) He chose for himself, took in preference, or selected. (IAar, L, K.) Hence one says, اقترح عَلَيْهِ صَوْتَ كَذَا وَكَذَا (assumed tropical:) He desired of him in preference such and such an air, or such and such a tune or song. (IAar, L.) And one says, أَنَا أَوَّلُ مَنِ ا@قْتَرَحَ مَوَدَّةَ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) I am the first [who has chosen for himself the love, or affection, of such a one, or] who has taken such a one as a friend. (A.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) He exercised his authority, or judgment, (K, TA,) عَلَيْهِ over him: (TA:) or he demanded some particular thing of some particular person by the exercise of his authority, or judgment, (El-Beyhakee, TA, and Har * p. 142,) and with ungentleness, roughness, or severity. (Har ibid.) And اقترح عَلَيْهِ بِكَذَا (tropical:) He exercised his authority, or judgment, over him, in such a thing, and asked without consideration. (TA.) And اقترح عَلَيْهِ شَيْئًا (tropical:) He asked of him a thing without consideration. (S, A.) -A2- See also 2, last sentence but one.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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