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مَكَرَ , aor.
مَكُرَ , (Msb, TA,) inf. n. مَكْرٌ; (S, A,
Msb, K;) and ↓ امكر; (Msb;) He practised
deceit, guile, or circumvention; or he practised
deceit, guile, or circumvention, desiring to do to
another a foul, an abominable, or an evil, action,
clandestinely, or without his knowing whence it
proceeded; syn. خَدَعَ; (Msb;) and of the inf. n.
خَدِيعَةٌ: (S, A, K:) he practised an evasion or
elusion, a shift, an artifice, or artful contrivance
or device, a machination, a trick, a plot, a
stratagem, or an expedient; he plotted; or he
exercised art, craft, cunning, or skill, in the
management or ordering of affairs, with excel-lent consideration or deliberation, and ability to
manage according to his own free will; syn. of the
inf. n. إِحْتِيَالٌ: (S, TA:) or to this explanation,
conveyed by احتيال as the syn. of the inf. n.,
should be added secretly, or privately: (Lth,
TA:) مَكْرٌ is praised or dispraised according to
the nature of its object. (El-Basáir.) [For further
explanation, see what follows.] ―
2-b2- It is trans.
by means of بِ: and also, accord. to Z, by
itself: (MF:) [but I know not any instance
of its being trans. by itself: except as meaning
he plotted a thing: see مَكْرَ السَّيِّئ in the Kur,
xxxv. 41, cited voce سَيِّئٌ:] you say مَكَرَ بِهِ,
(S, A, TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (S, TA,)
meaning, He deceived, beguiled, or circumvented,
him; or he deceived, beguiled, or circumvented,
him, and desired to do him a foul, an abominable,
or an evil, action, clandestinely, or without his
knowing whence it proceeded: &c.: (S, A, TA:)
syn. كَادَهُ: or it differs [somewhat] from كاده,
accord. to Aboo-Hilál El-'Askeree: (TA:) some
say, that مكر به signifies as above with the
addition of feigning the contrary of his real intentions; which كاده does not imply: or this
latter signifies “ he did him harm, ” or “ mischief; ” and the former, he did him harm, or
mischief, clandestinely. (MF, voce كاد.) See
art. خدع. ―
2-b3- مَكَرَ also signifies He managed
with thought, or consideration, or acted with
policy, and practised stratagem, in war. (TA.)
―
2-b4- مَكَرَ ٱللّٰهُ and ↓ أَمْكَرَ are syn., (IKtt, Msb,)
signifying, (tropical:) God recompensed, or requited, for
مَكْر [or the practising deceit, &c.]: (Lth, * Msb,
TA: *) or مَكْرُ ٱللّٰهِ signifies God's granting a
man respite or delay, and enabling him to accomplish his worldly aims [so as to bring upon himself the punishment due to his evil actions]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or, accord. to IAth, God's causing
his trials to befall his enemies, exclusively of his
friends: or his taking men by little and little, so
that they do not reckon upon it, bestowing upon
them renewed favours for acts of obedience which
are imagined to be accepted whereas they are
rejected. (TA.)