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1 ذَهِنَ ذ , (MA, TA,) aor. ذَهَنَ , (TA,) inf. n. ذِهْنٌ and ذَهَنٌ, (MA, KL,) He was, or became, intelligent, possessed of understanding, sagacious, acute, skilful, knowing, (MA, KL, PS, TA,) and endowed with a retentive mind. (KL, PS.) You say, اِذْهَنْ إِِلَى مَا أَقُولُ Understand thou what I say. (TA.) And هُوَ لَا يَذْهَنُ شَيْئًا He does not understand anything. (TA.) And ذَهِنْتُ كَذَا وَ كَذَا I understood such and such things. (TA) And ذَهِنْتُ عَنْ كَذَا I understood from such a thing. (TA.) -A2- ذَاهَنَنِى فَذَهَنْتُهُ: see 3. ― -b2- ذَهَنَنِى عَنْهُ, and ↓ أَذْهَنَنِى , and ↓ اِسْتَذْهَنَنِى , He, or it, made me to forget it; diverted me from remembering it: (K, * TA:) [like ذَهَلَنِى عَنْهُ, and أَذْهَلَنِى.] And ذُهِنَ Memory, or understanding, escaped him, or left him. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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