كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ شَيْيءًا

1.
He tasked himself with a thing, as also تَكَلَّفَ شَييءًا.
2.
كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He tasked him to do a thing; imposed upon him the task of doing a thing.
3.
So تَكْلِيفٌ The imposition of a task or duty.
4.
A task; compulsory work; a duty imposed.
5.
كَلَّفَهُ الأَمْرَ He imposed upon him the thing, or affair; synonym حَمَّلَهُ إِيَّاهُ. (Msb.)
6.
كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ He put himself to trouble or inconvenience; like تَكَلَّفَ alone.
7.
كَلَّفَهُ كَذَا He imposed upon him the task of doing, or procuring, or bringing, such a thing.
8.
كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He imposed upon him a thing, or an affair, in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience: (Msb:) he ordered him to do a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: (S, K:) he made, required, or constrained, him to do a thing; exacted of him the doing a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient to him: (Kull, 123; and the Lexicons, passim.) See جَتَّمَهُ.
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تَكْلِيفٌ An imposition; a requisition: con straint, &c.

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