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10 استطعمهُ ذ He asked him to feed him. (S, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] اِسْتَطْعَمَتُهُ الحَدِيثَ (assumed tropical:) I asked him to relate to me the narrative, or tradition: or to make me to taste the savour of his discourse. (TA.) ― -b3- And إِِذَا ا@سْتَطْعَمَكُمُ الإِِمَامُ ↓ فَأَطْعِمُوهُ (tropical:) When the امام [or leader in prayer] desires you to tell him what he should say, (S, Mgh, K, TA,) being unable to proceed (Mgh, TA) in reciting the prayer, (TA,) do ye tell him what he should say, (S, Mgh, K, TA,) and prompt him, as though putting the recitation into his mouth like as food is put in: (TA:) a saying of 'Alee. (K.) ― -b4- And اِسْتَطْعَمْتُ الفَرَسَ (assumed tropical:) I desired the horse's running. (TA.) ― -b5- See also 1, first sentence.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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