تحتّم

He made a thing to be necessary, or unavoidable. (K, * TA.)

[Hence, perhaps,] تحتّم لِفُلَانٍ بِخَيْرٍ He wished such a one good: or he augured good for him. (K.)

See also 7.

-A2- [It (a thing that was eaten) was soft, yielding, crummy, or easily broken.] It is said in the S that التَّحَتُّمُ signifies الهَشَاشَةُ: but in a marginal note it is stated that there is an omission in this explanation, the right rendering being هشاشة الشَّىْءِ المأْكُولِ. (TA.) One says, هُوَ ذُو تَحَتُّمٍ [It is soft, yielding, crummy, or easily broken: explained in the K by هَشَاشٌ, which is evidently a mistranscription for هَشَاشٌ, synonym with هَشٌّ]. (S, K.) And هُوَ غَضُّ المُتَحَتَّمِ [It is fresh, juicy, sappy, or moist, in its soft, yielding, crummy, or crumbling, nature; مُتَحَتَّمٌ being a regular verbal noun] (S, K.)

It (a ثُوءْلُول [or wart] when it had become dry) crumbled, or broke into small bits. (TA.) And It (a glass vessel) broke in pieces, one part upon another. (TA.)

He ate a thing that was soft, yielding, crummy, or easily broken, in his mouth. (Lth, K.)

He ate the حُتَامَة, i. e., the food that remained upon the table, or what fell from it during eating, (K, TA,) of the crumbs of bread &c. (TA.) It is said in a tradition that he who eats and does this will enter Paradise. (TA.)

-A3- تحتّم لِكَذَا He was, or became, cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly, by reason of such a thing. (K.)