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5 تشنّع القَوْمَ ذ He showed, or declared, the case of the people, or party, to be bad, evil, abominable, foul, or unseemly, by reason of their disagreement, and the unsound, or unsettled, state of their opinion. (TA.) -A2- And تشنّع He (a man) purposed to do a bad, an evil, an abominable, a foul, or an unseemly, thing or affair. (TA.) ― -b2- See also 2, last sentence, in two places. ― -b3- Hence, (IAar, TA,) He prepared himself for fight: (IAar, K, TA:) or, said of a party of men, they prepared themselves for fight: (O:) and accord. to AA, تشنّع لِلشَّرِّ He prepared himself for evil, or mischief. (O, TA.) ― -b4- And It ( a garment, or piece of cloth,) became rent, or slit. (O, K.) -A3- تشنّع الغَارَةَ He spread, or dispersed, the horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, upon an enemy. (AA, S, O, K, TA.) ― -b2- And تشنّع الفَرَسَ He mounted the horse. (S, O, K.) ― -b3- And تشنّع السِّلَاحَ He put on the weapon, or weapons. (S, O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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