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10 استثقلهُ أستثقله استثقله استثقلة ٱستثقل ٱستثقله contr. of اِسْتَخَفَّهُ; (S and K and TA in art. خف;) He deemed it, or him, ثَقِيل [i. e. heavy, properly and tropically]. (TA in that art.) ― -b2- [Hence, (assumed tropical:) He deemed it (a word or a sound) heavy, or not easy, of utterance; or heavy to the ear: often occurring in this sense in lexicons and grammars.] ― -b3- اُسْتُثْقِلَ نَوْمًا (assumed tropical:) [He was overcome, and rendered heavy, by sleep: and in like manner, مَرَضًا, by sickness or disease: and لُؤْمًا, by meanness or sordidness: see its pass. part. n., below]. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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