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حُلْوٌ حلو Sweet; contr. of مُرٌّ; (S, K;) i. e., in the mouth: and in like manner, in the eye [meaning pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful: see 1]: (TA:) applied also to a saying, and to an action: (K:) fem. with ة. (Msb.) And الحُلْوُ الحَلَالُ (assumed tropical:) Language in which is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion: (K and TA in art. حل:) and the man in whom is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion. (TA in the present art.) And حُلْوٌ, also, applied to a man, (assumed tropical:) One who is excited to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, (يُسْتَخَفٌّ,) and is esteemed pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ حَلُوٌّ : (IAar, K:) the fem. is حُلْوَةٌ: the pl. masc. حُلْوُونَ, and pl. fem. حِلْوٌ: (K:) there is no broken pl., masc. or fem. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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