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2 أنّثهُ ذ , inf. n. تَأْنِيثٌ, He made it (namely, a noun [&c.], S and Msb) feminine; (S, M, L, Msb;) he attached to it, or to that which was syntactically dependent upon it, the sign of the feminine gender. (Msb.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He, or it, rendered him effeminate. (KL.) [See the pass. part. n., below.] -A2- أنّث لَهُ, inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He acted gently, [or effeminately] towards him; as also له ↓ تأنّث . (K, TA.) And أنّث فِى أَمْرِهِ, inf. n. as above, (T, A,) (tropical:) He acted gently in his affair: (A:) or he applied himself gently to his affair: (T:) and some say, فى امره ↓ تأنّث , meaning he acted effeminately in his affair. (T, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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