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4 اغمض حَدَّ السَّيْفِ ذ : see 2. ― -b2- اغمض عَيْنَيْهِ, (Mgh,) or العَيْنَ, (Msb,) inf. n. إِِغْمَاضٌ; (S, Msb;) and ↓ غَمَّضَهُمَا , (Mgh,) or غَمَّضَهَا, (Msb,) inf. n. تَغْمِيضٌ; (S, Msb;) He shut, or closed, (Mgh, Msb,) [his eyes, or] his eyelids, (Mgh,) or [the eye, or] the eyelids. (Msb.) ― -b3- [Hence,] مَا أَغْمَضْتُ, (A, TA,) and ↓ مَا غَمَّضْتُ , (TA,) I have not slept; (TA;) and ↓ مَا ا@غْتَمَضْتُ [signifies the same]; (JK;) and so مَا ا@كْتَحَلْتُ إِِغْمَاضًا, (ISd, K,) and ↓ تَغْمَاضًا (S, Sgh, K) and تَغْمِيضًا, (S, K,) [two inf. ns. of 2,] and ↓ غَمَاضًا , and ↓ غِمَاضًا , and ↓ غُمْضًا with damm, (S, Sgh, K,) [and app. ↓ غُمَاضًا , and ↓ غُمُوضًا , and ↓ غَمْضًا , for] IB says that غَمْضٌ and غُمُوضٌ and غُمَاضٌ are inf. ns. of a verb not used: (TA:) and مَا ذُقْتُ ↓ غُمْضًا , [in a copy of the A ↓ غَمْضًا ,] and ↓ غَمَا ضًا , I have not tasted sleep. (JK.) [And hence,] البَرْقُ ↓ اغتمض (tropical:) The lightning ceased to gleam; as though sleeping. (TA.) ― -b4- You say also, اغمض طَرْفَهُ عَنِّى, and ↓ غمّضهُ , He shut, or closed, his eye, or eyes, at, or upon, or against, me: and اغمض عَلَيْهِ, and ↓ غمّض , he shut, or closed, his eyes at, or upon, or against, him, or it. (TA.) ― -b5- And [hence,] اغمض عَنْهُ, and عَلَيْهِ, (tropical:) [He shut his eyes at it, or upon it, or against it], namely a thing that he had heard: a metonymical phrase, denoting patience. (TA.) And اغمض عَنْهُ (tropical:) He connived at it; feigned himself neglectful of it; passed it by; (A, Mgh, Msb, TA;) as also عَنْهُ ↓ غمّض , inf. n. تَغْمِيضٌ; and ↓ غَمَضَ ; and ↓ اغتمض ; namely a thing that he had heard; and an evil action: (A, TA:) and عَيْنَيْهِ ↓ غمّض عَنْهُ he feigned himself blind to it. (TA.) And اغمض عَنْهُ فِى البَيْعِ, (S, K,) or الشِّرَآءِ, (S, TA,) (tropical:) He acted, or affected to act, in an easy, or a facile, manner towards him, (تَسَاهَلَ عَلَيْهِ,) in selling, (S, K,) or buying; (S;) as also ↓ غَمَضَ عَنْهُ, (S, K,) aor. غَمِضَ . (K.) And أَغْمِضْ لِى فِيمَا بِعْتَنِى, (S, A, K, TA,) in [some of] the copies of the K like اِضْرِبْ, [i. e. ↓ اِغْمِضْ ,] but the former is the right reading, (TA,) [though the latter is perhaps allowable, as will presently be seen,] meaning, (A, TA,) or as though it meant, (S, K, TA,) (tropical:) Give thou to me more of what thou hast sold to me, on account of its badness; or [so in the A, but in the S and K “ and, ”] lower thou to me the price thereof; (S, A, K, TA;) as also لِى فِيهِ ↓ غَمِّضْ . (K, TA.) And اغمض فِى البَيْعِ (tropical:) He demanded that another should give him more of the thing sold; and that he should lower the price [thereof]; and he complied with his demand. (IAth.) And اغمض فِى السِّلْعَةِ (tropical:) He demanded a lowering of the price of the commodity, on account of its badness. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [ii. 270], وَلَسْتُمْ بِآخِذِيهِ إِِلَّا أَنْ تُغْمِضُوا فِيهِ, (S, A, * K,) or, accord. to one reading, ↓ تَغْمِضُوا , (TA,) i. e. (tropical:) When ye do not take it unless ye lower the price; (Lth, Zj, * K;) meaning, عَلَى إِِغْمَاضٍ, or بِإِِغْمَاضٍ. (Fr.) ― -b6- [Hence also,] فُلَانٌ عَلَى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ ↓ غَمَّضَ (assumed tropical:) Such a one executed, performed, or accomplished, this affair: or kept, or applied himself, constantly, or perseveringly, to it; (مَضَى عَلَيْهِ;) [as though he shut his eyes at it;] knowing what was in it. (O, K.) And النَّاقَةُ ↓ غَمَّضَتِ , (S, A, K,) inf. n. تَغْمِيضٌ, (K,) The she-camel, being driven away (رُدَّتْ, as in the K, and in some copies of the S, or ذِيدَتْ, as in other copies of the S, and in the A, as is said in the TA,) from the watering-trough, (S, K,) rushed upon the driver, (الذَّائِد, [in the CK, erroneously, الزائِد,]) closing her eyes, and came to the water. (S, A, K.) ↓ تَغْمِيضٌ also signifies The embarking [in an affair], or undertaking [it], blindly. (TA.) ― -b7- [Hence also,] أَغْمَضَتِ المَفَازَةُ عَلَيْهِمْ (tropical:) [The desert concealed them;] they did not appear in the desert, (A, TA,) being concealed by the mirage, and in the depressed parts; (TA;) as though it closed its eyelids upon them. (A, TA.) ― -b8- اغمض النَّظَرَ (tropical:) He considered, or judged, well, and gave a good opinion: (M, TA:) and اغمض فِى النَّظَرِ (tropical:) he gave a right opinion: (A:) or (assumed tropical:) he considered, or judged, minutely. (IKtt.) ― -b9- أَغْمَضَتِ العَيْنُ فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:) The eye despised such a one: (K, TA:) or you say أَغْمَضَتْهُ عَيْنِى meaning I despised him: ― -b10- and likewise meaning I vied, or contended, in running with him, (حَاضَرْتُهُ,) and outstripped him, after he had outstripped me: (Ibn-'Abbád, O:) or اغمض فُلَانٌ فُلَانًا means Such a one vied, or contended, in running with such a one, (حَاضَرَهُ,) and outstripped him, after having been outstripped by him. (K.) ― -b11- اغمض المَيِّتَ, (A, Mgh, TA,) inf. n. إِِغْمَاضٌ; (TA;) and ↓ غَمَّضَهُ , (A, TA,) inf. n. as above; (TA;) He closed the eyelids of the dead man. (Mgh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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