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6 تحامل عَلَيْهِ تحامل عليه تحامل علية [He bore, bore his weight, pressed, or pressed heavily, upon it, or him]. You say, تَحَامَلَ عَلَى رَأْسِ رُمْحِهِ مُعْتَمِدًا عَلَيْهِ لِيَمُوتَ [He bore, bore his weight, pressed, or pressed heavily, upon the head of his spear, leaning upon it, in order that he might die]. (Mgh in art. ركز.) And تَحَامَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ كَالعَاصِرِ [I pressed, or pressed heavily, upon it, like the squeezer of fruit &c.]. (Msb in art. همز.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He wronged him; or treated him wrongfully, or unjustly. (S, Mgh, and Har p. 80.) And it is asserted that one says, تحامل الزَّمَانُ عَنْ فُلَانٍ meaning (assumed tropical:) Time, or fortune, turned from such a one, and took away his property: and تحامل إِِلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) It became favourable to him. (Har ibid.) ― -b3- [Also] (assumed tropical:) He imposed upon him, or tasked him with, that which he was not able to bear, or to do. (M, O, K.) And تحامل عَلَى نَفْسِهِ, (S, O,) or تحامل فِى الأَمْرِ and بِالأَمْرِ, (M, K,) (assumed tropical:) He imposed upon himself, or tasked himself with, or constrained himself to do, the thing, or affair, notwithstanding difficulty, or trouble, or inconvenience, (S, M, O, K,) and fatigue. (M, TA.) And تَحَامَلْتُ فِى المَشْىِ (assumed tropical:) I constrained myself to walk, notwithstanding difficulty, or trouble, or inconvenience, and fatigue: whence, رُبَّمَا يَتَحَامَلُ الصَّيْدُ وَيَطِيرُ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) Sometimes the game will constrain itself to fly, notwithstanding difficulty, &c., and will fly. (Mgh.) [See also two similar phrases in the first paragraph.] ― -b4- ↓ مُتَحَامَلٌ is used as its inf. n., and also as a noun of place: using it as an inf. n., you say, مَافِى فُلَانٍ مُتَحَامَلٌ i. e. تَحَامُلٌ (assumed tropical:) [There is not, in such a one, wrongdoing, &c.]: and using it of a place, هٰذَا مُتَحَامَلُنَا (assumed tropical:) [This is our place of wrong-doing, or wrongtreatment, &c.]. (S, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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