ذَهِنَ
1.
, (MA, TA,) aorist
ذَهَنَ
, (TA,) verbal noun 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 إِلَى مَا أَقُولُ
Understand thou what I say. (TA.) And هُوَ لَا يَذْهَنُ شَيْيءًا
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.)
2.
ذَاهَنَنِى فَذَهَنْتُهُ: see 3.
3.
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.)