confectioner, pastry cook

, aor. ; (S, Msb, K;) and حَلِىَ, aor. ; and حَلُوَ, aor. ; (K;) inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and حَلْوٌ and حُلْوَانٌ; (K;) It (a thing, S, Msb) was, or became, sweet; (S, K;) as also ↓ احلولى; (S, K;) or this latter signifies it was, or became, very sweet. (TA.) And in like manner, حَلَالِى [It was, or became, sweet to me]. (Msb.) And حَلُوَتِ الفَاكِهَةُ, aor. , inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ, [The fruit was, or became, sweet.] (TA.) ― -b2- حَلِىَ بِعَيْنِى (S, Msb, K) and فِى عَيْنِى (S) and بِصَدْرِى (S, Msb) and فِى صَدْرِى (S) and بِقَلْبِى, (K,) aor. ; (S, Msb, K;) and حَلَا, aor. ; (S, K;) inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and حُلْوَانٌ; (K;) He, (S,) or it, (Msb,) pleased me, or excited my admiration; (S, Msb;) was goodly, or beautiful, in my estimation: (Msb:) or one says, حَلِىَ فِى عَيْنِى (Lth, As, S, K *) or فِى صَدْرِى, (As, TA,) aor. , inf. n. حُلْوَانٌ; (Lth, TA;) and حَلَا فى فَمِى, (Lth, As, S, K, *) aor. , inf. n. حَلْوٌ (Lth, TA) and حَلَاوَةٌ. (TA.) تَحْلَى بِهِ العَيْنُ is an inverted phrase, used by a poet, for يَحْلَى بِالْعَيْنِ. (S.) It has been said that حَلِىَ فِى عَيْنِى (ISd, and K in art. حلى) and فِى صَدْرى (ISd) is from الحَلْىُ, (ISd, K,) meaning the thing that is worn, because it signifies It was beautiful in my eye, like the حَلْى; not from حَلَاوَةٌ; (ISd, and TA in art. حلى;) but this saying is not valid, nor approved. (TA in the present art.) Accord. to Lh, one says, حَلِيَتِ المَرْأَةُ بِعَيْنِى and فِى عَيْنِى, and بِقَلْبِى and فِى قَلْبِى, aor. , inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; and حَلَتْ, aor. , inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; [The woman was pleasing in my eye, and in my mind, or heart.] (TA.) ― -b3- مَايَمُرُّ وَمَا يَحْلُو (tropical:) He is not bitter at one time, and he is not sweet at another. (IAar, K, TA. [In some copies of the K, وَلَا يَحْلُو.]) And أَمَرُّ وَأَحْلُو and أَمُرُّ وَأَحْلُو (tropical:) I am bitter at one time, and I am sweet at one time. (IAar, M in art. مر.) [See also 4.] -A2- حَلِىَ الشَّىْءَ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; (TK;) and ↓ استحلاهُ, (S, Msb, K,) from الحَلَاوَةُ, like استجادهُ from الجَوْدَةُ, (S,) [the most common form,] and ↓ تحلّاهُ, (K,) and ↓ احلولاهُ, (S, K,) which is the only trans. verb of its measure except one other, in the phrase اِعْرَوْرَيْتُ الفَرَسَ; (S;) all signify the same; (K;) He esteemed the thing sweet [both properly and metaphorically as is indicated in the TA]: (Msb in explanation of the second of these verbs, and TK in explanation of all of them:) and [in like manner] ↓ أَحْلَيْتُهُ I found it to be sweet: (S, K:) or this signifies I made it sweet: (K:) or it has both of these significations: (S:) you say, أَحْلَيْتُ هٰذَا المَكَانَ, meaning ↓ اِسْتَحْلَيْتُهُ [I esteemed, or found, this place to be sweet, or pleasant]. (TA.) And حَلِيَتْهُ العَيْنُ [The eye esteemed, or found, him, or it, to be pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful]. (IAar, TA in art. حلى.) ― -b2- حَلِىَ مِنْهُ بِخَيْرٍ, (K,) aor. ; (TA;) and حَلَا, (K,) aor. ; (TA;) He found, or experienced, or he got, or obtained, from him, or it, good. (K.) [See also 1 in art. حلى.] -A3- حَلَاهُ الشَّىْءَ, (Msb, * K,) or حَلَاهُ كَذَا مَالًا, (S,) aor. , (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَلْوٌ (S, K [in the CK حُلْو]) and حُلْوَانٌ, (S,) He gave him (S, Msb, K) the thing, (K,) or such a piece of property, [as a gratuity,] for something that he had done; not as hire, or pay, or wages. (S.) ― -b2- You say also حَلَوْتُ meaning I bribed another; gave him a bribe. (TA.) ― -b3- And ↓ لَأَحْلُوَنَّكَ حُلْوَانَكَ I will assuredly give thee thy requital. (IAar, K.) ― -b4- حُلْوَانٌ also signifies A man's taking for himself a portion of the dowry of his daughter: an act for which the Arabs used to reproach him who did it. (S, Msb.) You say, حَلَاهُ, inf. n. حَلْوٌ [in the CK حُلْوٌ, and حُلُوٌّ also,] and حُلْوَانٌ, He gave him in marriage his daughter, or his sister, (K, TA,) or any woman, (TA,) for a certain dowry, on the condition that he should assign to him a certain portion of it. (K, TA.) -A4- حَلَوْتُ المَرْأَةَ i. q. حَلَيْتُهَا, i. e. I assigned, or gave, to the woman حُلِىّ [or ornaments]. (S.)

, (S, K, [erroneously written in the CK without the sheddeh,]) inf. n. تَحْلِيَةٌُ, (K,) He made it sweet; (S, K;) namely, food; (S;) or a thing; (K;) as also ↓ احلاهُ: (S:) and so حَلَّأَهُ, which is anomalous: (K:) sometimes they said, حَلَّأْتُ السَّوِيقَ [I sweetened the meal of parched barley, or the mess made thereof]; pronouncing with hemz that which is not [properly] with hemz: (S:) this is said by Lth to be a mistake on their part. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حَلَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ فِى عَيْنِ صَاحِبِهِ [I made the thing to seem pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye of its possessor]. (S.)

, (inf. n. مُحَالَاةٌ, TK,) (tropical:) I jested, or joked, with him. (S, K, TA.)

see 2. ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) مَا أَمَرَّ وَمَاأَحُلَى (assumed tropical:) He said not anything: (S, TA:) or the meaning is similar to that of the phrase next following. (TA.) مَا يُمِرُّ وَمَا يُحْلِى (assumed tropical:) He says not a bitter thing nor a sweet thing: and he does not a bitter thing nor a sweet thing. (K.) [See a similar phrase near the middle of the first paragraph.] ― -b3- See also another signification in the first paragraph. ― -b4- مَا أَحْلَاهُ [How sweet, &c., is it!] is said by some to be an instance of a verb having a dim. form; so that you say, ↓ مَا أُحَيْلَاهُ [How very sweet, &c., is it!]; like مَا أُمَيْلِحَهُ [q. v.]. (TA in art. ملح.)

: see 1.

She (a woman) affected, or made a show of, sweetness, and self-conceitedness. (S.)

, and لِمَهْرِهَا, He exercised art, or ingenuity, for [the purpose of procuring] the expenses of his wife, and her dowry: one says, اِحْتَلِ فَتَزَوَّجْ [Exercise thou art, &c., and marry]. (TA.)

see 1, in two places. ― -b2- استحلاهُ also signifies He sought [to elicit] its, or his, sweetness. (TA.)

: see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- [Hence,] said of a man, He was, or became, sweet in disposition. (IAar.) -A2- احلولاهُ: see 1.

A medicine mixed, or moistened, with water or the like. (K.)

Sweet; contr. of مُرٌّ; (S, K;) i. e., in the mouth: and in like manner, in the eye [meaning pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful: see 1]: (TA:) applied also to a saying, and to an action: (K:) fem. with ة. (Msb.) And الحُلْوُ الحَلَالُ (assumed tropical:) Language in which is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion: (K and TA in art. حل:) and the man in whom is nothing that induces doubt, or suspicion. (TA in the present art.) And حُلْوٌ, also, applied to a man, (assumed tropical:) One who is excited to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, (يُسْتَخَفٌّ,) and is esteemed pleasing, or goodly, or beautiful, in the eye; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ حَلُوٌّ: (IAar, K:) the fem. is حُلْوَةٌ: the pl. masc. حُلْوُونَ, and pl. fem. حِلْوٌ: (K:) there is no broken pl., masc. or fem. (TA.)

A small حَفّ [q. v., in the CK, erroneously, خُفّ,] with which one weaves: (K, TA:) or the wooden thing which the weaver turns round: [app. meaning the yarn-beam, upon which the yarn is rolled; termed حَفَّةٌ:] the poet Shemmákh likens the tongue of a braying [wild] ass to a حِلْو that has slipped from the back of a loom. (TA.)