أَفَأْتُهُ

I made it to return. (O.) See also 2.

[Hence,] one says, أَفَاءَ اللّٰهُ عَلَى المُسْلِمِينَ مَالَ الكُفَّارِ [God restored to the Muslims, as though it were theirs by right, or gave to them as spoil, the property, or wealth, of the unbelievers]; (S, O;) verbal noun إِفَاءَةٌ. (S.) And أَفَاءَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِمُ الغَنَايءِمَ [God restored, or gave, to them the spoils]. And أَفَاءَ عَلَى قَوْمٍ فَيْيءًا He took for a party the spoil of another party and brought it to them: and he took for a party spoil that had been taken from them. (T, TA.)

And أَفَأْتُ كَذَا I made such a thing to be a فَىْء [or spoil]. (TA.)

And أَفَأْتُ فُلَانًا عَلَى الأَمْرِ I turned him to the thing, or affair, when he had desired another thing, or affair. (AZ, T.)