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10 استخفّهُ أستخفه استخفه استخفة ٱستخف ٱستخفى ٱستخفه contr. of اِسْتَثْقَلَهُ; (S, K, TA;) He deemed it, or him, خَفِيف [i. e. light, properly and tropically]. (TA.) He found it light, or easy, to carry, (Bd in xvi. 82, and TA,) and to remove. (Bd ibid.) ― -b2- استخفّ بِهِ (assumed tropical:) He held him, or it, (namely, a man's right, or due, or just claim, Msb, TA,) in light, or little, estimation or account, or in contempt; he contemned, or despised, him, or it. (S, Msb, TA.) ― -b3- استخفّ الهَمْزَةَ (assumed tropical:) [He deemed the hemzeh light, or easy, of utterance]. (TA.) ― -b4- استخفّهُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) He demanded, or desired, his خِفَّة [i. e. briskness, or promptness]; as also مِنْهُ ↓ تَخَفَّفَ : (TA:) and (assumed tropical:) it (a thing) incited him, or excited him, to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness; syn. اِسْتَهَشَّهُ; (JK and K and TA in art. هش;) and أَطْرَبَهُ: (Har p. 139:) and (assumed tropical:) he incited him, or excited him, to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness, so as to induce him to follow him in his error: (TA:) [and simply] (tropical:) he excited him to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness; (Ksh and Bd and Jel in the Kur xxx. last verse;) flurried him, or disquieted him: (Ksh and Bd ibid.:) and (tropical:) it flurried him, so that he became unsteady; said of impatience; and of a lively emotion of the heart or mind; (TA;) and of fear; (MA;) and of anger: (T in art. حمل:) and ↓ اخفّهُ (assumed tropical:) he angered him, (TA,) and deprived him of his forbearance, moderation, patience, staidness, or calmness, and incited him, or excited him, to levity, or unsteadiness. (K, * TA.) فَا@سْتَخَفَّ قَوْمَهُ, in the Kur xliii. 54, means (assumed tropical:) And he demanded, or desired, of his people, briskness, or promptness, in obeying him: or فاستخفّ أَحْلَامَهُمْ [and he held in light estimation their qualities of forbearance, moderation, patience, or staidness]: (Bd:) or he incited, or excited, his people to be promptly obedient and submissive (أَنْ يَخِفُّوا) to him and to that which he desired of them; like اِسْتَفَزَّ: (Ksh:) or he incited, or excited, his people to levity, or unsteadiness, (الخِفَّة,) and ignorance, foolishness, or wrong conduct. (Msb.) And you say, استخفّ فُلَانًا عَنْ رَأْيِهِ (assumed tropical:) He incited, or excited, such a one to ignorance, foolishness, or wrong conduct, and levity, or unsteadiness, so as to make him swerve from his right sentiment, opinion, or judgment; (Az, K, TA;) as also استفزّهُ عن رأيه. (Az, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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