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8 اختلط أختلط اختلط ٱختلط It was, or became, mixed, mingled, commingled, incorporated or blended together, (S, * Msb, K,) or put together. (Msb.) [And hence, (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, confused, confounded, indiscriminate, promiscuous, without order, disordered, or perplexed.] ― -b2- اختلط اللَّيْلُ بِالتُّرَابِ (assumed tropical:) [The night became confused, or confounded, with the dust, or earth]: (AZ, K:) and الحَابِلُ بِالنَّابِلِ (K) (assumed tropical:) the setter of the snare with the shooter of arrows; or the warp with the woof: (TA:) and المَرْعَى بِالهَمَلِ (assumed tropical:) [the place of pasturage with the camels left to pasture by themselves]: (AZ, K:) and الخَاثِرُ بِالزُّبَادِ (as in some copies of the K and in the TA) (assumed tropical:) the thick milk with the butter that had become bad, or spoiled, in the churning; or, as some say, with the thin milk; (TA;) or بِالزَّبَّادِ (as in other copies of the K and in the TA) with the herb [so called], which, when it falls into the رَائِب [or milk that is thick, and fit for churning, &c.], is with difficulty separated from it: (TA:) [but see art. زبد:] proverbs, alluding to the dubiousness and confusedness of an affair or a case: (K:) or the first, to the dubiousness of an affair or case; and the second, to its confusedness; and the third is applied when a people's affair or case is confused or perplexed to them; and the last relates to the confusedness of truth with falsity; and to a people whose affair or case is dubious to them, so that they do not decide upon anything. (TA.) ― -b3- [اختلط الظَّلَامُ (assumed tropical:) The darkness, or the beginning of night, became confused, is a phrase of frequent occurrence. And so اِخْتِلَاطُ الظَّلَامِ (assumed tropical:) The confusedness of the darkness, &c.] ― -b4- اختلط عَلَيْهِمْ أَمْرُهُمْ (assumed tropical:) [Their affair, or case, became confused, or perplexed, to them]. (S.) ― -b5- See also 3, in four places, near the end of the paragraph: and see 6. ― -b6- Said of a camel, (tropical:) He became fat; (ISh, K;) his fat and flesh becoming mixed together. (ISh.) ― -b7- Said of a horse: see 4, last sentence.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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