ادهن
1.
, verbal noun إِدْهَانٌ: see 1, first sentence: and see 3, in six places. [See also its act. particle n., below.]
2.
الإِدْهَانُ is also synonym with
الإِبْقَاءُ, which, according to IAmb, is the primary signification: in the copies of the K erroneously written الإِنْقَاءُ. (TA.) One says, لَا تُدْهِنْ عَلَيْهِ, meaning لَا تُبْقِ عَلَيْهِ [Show not thou mercy to him; or pity not him; or pardon not him]. (IAmb, TA.) And مَا أَدْهَنْتَ إِلَّا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ, i. e. مَا أَبْقَيْتَ [Thou didst not show, or hast not shown, mercy, save to thyself]. (Lh, TA.)
3.
One says also, أَدْهَنْتُ فِى أَمْرِهِ, meaning I fell short in his affair, or case. (JK.)
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