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جَهَدَ , (S, A, L, &c.,) aor.
جَهَدَ , (K,) inf. n. جَهْدٌ,
(TA,) He strove, laboured, or toiled; exerted
himself or his power or efforts or endeavours or
ability; employed himself vigorously, strenuously,
laboriously, diligently, studiously, sedulously, earnestly, or with energy; was diligent, or studious;
took pains, or extraordinary pains; (S, A, L, K;)
فِى كَذَا in such a thing; (S;) or فِى الأَمْرِ in the
affair; (A;) as also ↓ اجتهد; (A, K;) and so
↓ جاهد, with respect to speech and actions: (L:)
or جَهَدَ فِى الأَمْرِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, he did
his utmost, or used his utmost power or efforts or
endeavours or ability, in prosecuting the affair:
(Msb:) and ↓ اجتهد and ↓ تجاهد he exerted unsparingly his power, or ability: (S, A, K:) or
اجتهد ↓ فِى الأَمْرِ he exerted unsparingly his
power, or ability, in the prosecution of the affair,
so as to effect his utmost. (Msb.) You say also,
اِجْهَدْ جَهَدَكَ فِى هذَا الأَمْرِ (tropical:) Do thine utmost in
this affair: (Fr, S, K: *) but not جُهْدَكَ. (Fr, S.)
And اجتهد ↓ رَأْيَهُ (tropical:) He took pains, or put himself
to trouble or fatigue, to form a right judgment or
opinion. (MA.) And اِجْتَهَدْتُ ↓ رَأْيِى وَنَفْسِى حَتَّى
بَلَغْتُ مَجْهُودِى (assumed tropical:) I exerted my judgment and my
mind so that I attained the utmost of my power,
or ability. (T, L.) ―
2-b2- جَهَدَبِهِ He tried, proved,
or examined, him, (L, K,) عَنِ الخَيْرِ وَ غَيْرِهِ [respecting good qualities, &c.]. (L.) ＝
1-A2- جَهَدَهُ, (Mgh,
L, Msb,) aor.
جَهَدَ , (Mgh, L,) inf. n. جَهْدٌ, (L, Msb,)
It, (an affair, and a disease,) and he, (a man,)
affected him severely; harassed, embarrassed,
distressed, afflicted, troubled, inconvenienced,
fatigued, or wearied, him: (Msb:) it (disease,
L and K, and fatigue, and love, L) rendered
him lean; emaciated him: (L, K:) he burdened
him beyond his power; imposed upon him that
which was beyond his power; as also ↓ اجهدهُ:
(Mgh:) and, [as also ↓ اجهدهُ,] he importuned
him, harassed him, or plied him hard, in asking,
begging, or petitioning. (A.) [Hence,] جُهِدَ,
said of a man, He was severely affected, harassed,
embarrassed, distressed, afflicted, troubled, inconvenienced, fatigued, or wearied: (S, L:) or was
grieved, or made sorry or unhappy. (L.) And
أَصَابَهُمْ قُحُوطٌ مِنَ المَطَرِ فَجُهِدُوا جَهْدًا شَدِيدًا
Drought befell them, and they consequently became severely distressed. (S.) And جُهِدُوا They
were, or became, afflicted with drought, barrenness,
or dearth; or with drought, and dryness of the
earth. (L.) And رَجُلٌ يَجْهَدُ أَنْ يَحْمِلَ سِلَاحَهُ
مِنَ الضَّعْفِ, for يَجْهَدُ نَفْسَهُ, A man who imposes
upon himself a difficulty, or trouble, or fatigue, or
a difficult or severe task, or who strains, or strains
himself, in the carrying of his weapons, or arms,
by reason of weakness. (Mgh.) And جَهَدَ دَابَّتَهُ
and ↓ اجهدها He jaded, harassed, distressed,
fatigued, or wearied, his beast; i. q. ↓ بَلَغَ جَهْدَهَا:
(K:) or he tasked, or plied, his beast beyond his
power in journeying, or marching, or in respect
of pace. (S, Msb.) And أَجْهَدْتُهُ عَلَى أَنْ يَفْعَلَ
كَذَا وَ كَذَا [I importuned him, or harassed him,
to do such and such things]. (L.) ―
2-b2- Also, (S,
Msb,) aor. as above, (A,) and so the inf. n.,
(Msb,) (tropical:) He deprived it (namely, milk,) of its
butter, (S, A, K,) entirely: (S, K:) or churned
it so as to extract its butter and render it sweet
and pleasant: or mixed it with water: (Msb:)
or diluted it so that it consisted for the most part
of water: and in like man(???) is used in relation
to broth. (A.) ―
2-b3- Hence, (Msb,) جَهَدَهَا (assumed tropical:) He
lay with her; or compressed her: (L, Msb, from
a trad.:) or i. q. دَفَعَهَا, and حَفَزَهَا [which has a
similar meaning]. (L.) ―
2-b4- جَهَدَ الطَّعَامِ (assumed tropical:) He desired the food eagerly; longed for it; (S, K;) as
also ↓ اجهدهُ. (K.) And جُهِدَ الطَّعَامُ and ↓ أُجْهِدَ
(assumed tropical:) The food was eagerly desired, or longed for.
(S.) ―
2-b5- Also (tropical:) He ate much of the food: (S, K:)
he left nothing of it. (A.) You say also, هٰذَا
كَلَأٌ يَجْهَدُهُ المَالُ (assumed tropical:) This is herbage, or pasture, of
which the cattle eat perseveringly. (AA, TA.) ＝
1-A3- جَهِدَ It (a state of life) was, or became, hard,
difficult, strait, or distressful. (S, K.)