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8 احتمل احتمل أحتمل ٱحتمل He raised a thing upon his back. (Har p. 41.) ― -b2- See also 1, in five places: and see 5, in three places. ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) He bore, endured, or sustained. (KL.) You say, اِحْتَمَلْتُ مَا كَانَ مِنْهُ (assumed tropical:) [I bore, or endured, what proceeded from him, or what he did or said, or] I forgave what proceeded from him, and feigned myself neglectful of it. (Msb.) And إِِدْلَالَهُ ↓ حَمَلْتُ and اِحْتَمَلْتُ (assumed tropical:) [I bore, or endured, his presumptuousness occasioned by his confiding in my love]. (S.) And احتملهُ (assumed tropical:) [He bore with, endured, suffered, or tolerated, him; or] he bore, or endured, his annoyance, or molestation, (احتمل أَذَاهُ,) and feigned himself neglectful of what proceeded from him, and did not reprove him. (Har p. 41.) And احتمل (assumed tropical:) He was forbearing, or clement; he acted with forbearance, or clemency; he treated with forbearance, or clemency, him who reviled him: (TA:) he forgave an offence; as also ↓ تحمّل : (Har p. 637:) and عَنْهُ ↓ حَمَلَ (tropical:) he treated him with forbearance, or clemency. (K, TA.) [And احتمل النِّعْمَة (assumed tropical:) He bore wealth; or he had, or exercised, the quality of doing so; generally meaning, in a becoming, or proper, manner; but also absolutely, as is shown by the phrase] سُوْءُ احْتِمَالِ النِّعْمَةِ (assumed tropical:) [The bearing of wealth ill, or in an evil manner]. (Er-Rághib voce بَطَرٌ.) And احتمل الصَّنِيعَةَ (assumed tropical:) He bore the benefit as a badge, and was thankful, or grateful, for it. (ISd, K.) ― -b4- [In lexicology, said of a word or phrase or sentence, (assumed tropical:) It bore, admitted, or was susceptible of, a meaning, a sense, or an interpretation: and, elliptically, (assumed tropical:) it bore, admitted, or was susceptible of, two, or more, different meanings, senses, or interpretations; it was equivocal.] In the conventional language of the lawyers, and the Muslim theologians [and men of science in general], (Msb,) it is used, (Kull,) or may be used, (Msb,) as importing supposition, and admissibleness, or allowableness; and thus used, it is intrans.: and also as importing necessary implication, and inclusion; and thus used, it is trans.: you say, يَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يَكُونَ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [It is supposable, or admissible, or allowable, that it may be thus; or simply it may be thus; as also يُحْتَمَلُ, which is often used in this sense]: and اِحْتَمَلَ الحَالُ وُجُوهًا كَثِيرَةً (assumed tropical:) [The case necessarily implied, or included, many (possible) modes, or manners of being; or admitted of being put, or explained, or understood, in many ways; or bore many kinds of interpretation]. (Msb, Kull.) ― -b5- احتملهُ الغَضَبُ (assumed tropical:) Anger disquieted, or flurried, him. (Mj, TA.) And اُحْتُمِلَ [alone] (assumed tropical:) He was disquieted, or flurried, by anger: (T, TA:) or, accord. to the Mj and M and O; but accord. to the K, followed by لَوْنُهُ; (TA;) (assumed tropical:) he was angry, and his colour changed. (K, TA.) ― -b6- [اِحْتَمَلَتْ She (a woman) used a drug, or the like, in the manner of a suppository in the ragina: so in the present day: and so in the K, on the words قُنَّبِيطٌ and نِفْطٌ &c.] ― -b7- احتمل He bought what is termed حَمِيل, i. e. a thing [in the CK للسَّبْىِ is put for لِلشَّىْءِ] carried from one country or town to another (K, TA) among a party of captives. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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