رهن

رَهَنَ

To remain, endure, subsist, or become fixed and established.

Also used of remaining, staying, or dwelling in a place; the place-staying use is a related extension of the basic continuance meaning.

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رَهَنَ

To become lean or emaciated, and to become fatigued or weary.

Recorded of a person, camel, or other beast; the lexical meaning is the resulting condition, not a restriction to any one type of subject.

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رَهَنَ

To pledge or deposit a person or thing as security, in lieu of an obligation or another pledged item, or to place it in custody.

Used transitively with a thing pledged for a debt or in place of another; the figurative branch includes making someone or something a stake or keeping something restrained. أَرْهَنَ is also recorded by some authorities as a variant in this pledge sense.

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رَهْن

Bound or responsible for something; a surety or person held to an obligation.

Conventional expressions such as هو رهن بكذا and أنا رهن بكذا express being pledged, responsible, or a surety; related idioms describe being subject to death, fate, or another controlling condition.

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رَهِينَة

Something by which another thing is held, restricted, or appropriated; a thing retained as security.

This is the broader substantive use of رَهِينَة, distinct from its Quranic application to a soul held for its deeds.

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رِهَان

A wager or stake, including property deposited as the stake in a contest.

As a noun, رِهَان can denote a pledge generally and is specially used for a stake or wager in wagering contexts.

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أَرْهَنَ

To make something continue, endure, or remain fixed; or to find it to be enduring.

The causative use may be applied to food, drink, property, or other things whose continuance is maintained or recognized.

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أَرْهَنَ

To make a person or thing a stake or pledge, or to consign it to a resulting condition such as death or burial.

Recorded in expressions for staking one’s property or children, resigning someone to death, and depositing a dead body in a grave as a figurative pledge.

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أَرْهَنَ

To pay in advance for a commodity, or to pay an excessive price for it; in another explanation, to give the commodity in advance as security for completing its price.

The lexical authorities differ between the meanings of overpaying, advancing payment, and giving a commodity as security; all are recorded for the construction أَرْهَنَ فِي السِّلْعَةِ.

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أَرْهَنَ

To weaken someone or make someone lean or emaciated.

A causative extension parallel to the intransitive lean/emaciate meaning; it is also glossed by the synonym أَوْهَنَ.

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رَاهَنَ

To lay a bet, wager, or stake with another person, especially in a race.

The stake is taken by the person who outstrips or defeats the others; the same branch covers competing to outstrip in a race.

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تَرَاهَنَ

To wager mutually with one another or to compete with reciprocal stakes.

Used when each participant lays a bet or stake and the winner takes the whole.

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اِرْتَهَنَ

To take or receive something as a pledge.

The construction may specify the person from whom the pledge is received. A further reported use has the subject hold someone or something as a pledge, with the passive form meaning to be given as a pledge.

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اِسْتَرْهَنَ

To ask or desire someone to pledge or deposit a thing as security.

The expected response may be the actual pledging or depositing of the requested object.

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رِهْنُ مَالٍ

A manager, tender, or good shepherd of cattle, camels, or similar livestock.

This is a specialized expression and is distinct from the pledge noun despite the shared written root.

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رَاهِن

Continuing, subsisting, lasting, or remaining fixed and established.

Used of such things as food, wine, bounty, or a state that continues or remains current; it can also mean remaining or dwelling in a place.

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رَاهِن

Prepared or ready for someone.

A distinct adjectival use in expressions such as this thing is prepared for you.

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رَاهِن

Lean, emaciated, fatigued, or weary.

Applied to a person, camel, or other beast, including emaciation caused by riding, illness, or another circumstance.

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رَاهِنَة

Of camels, not grazing on the plants called حَمْض.

A specialized camel-related usage recorded separately from the general meanings of continuance and emaciation.

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رَاهِنَة

The navel together with what surrounds it on the outer belly of a horse.

A specialized anatomical term.

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إِرْهَان

A thong or strap bound around the middle of the yoke joining two bulls drawing a plough.

A specialized agricultural implement term.

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أُرْهُون

A girl or young woman who is menstruating.

This meaning is reported on a single recorded authority and is rare.

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مَرْهُون

Pledged, deposited as security, or restricted and held in custody for a debt.

The normal construction is مَرْهُونٌ بِالدَّيْنِ; the term may also describe matters guaranteed or bound to their appointed times.

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مُرْتَهِن

One who takes or receives a pledge.

This is the agent noun for the recipient or holder of the pledged object.

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