حلو1 حَلَا, aor. ـُ (S, Msb, K;) and حَلِىَ, aor. ـَ and حَلُوَ, aor. ـُ (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. ـُ 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. ـَ (S, Msb, K;) and حَلَا, aor. ـُ (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. ـَ inf. n. حُلْوَانٌ; (Lth, TA;) and حَلَا فى فَمِى, (Lth, As, S, K, *) aor. ـُ 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. ـَ inf. n. حَلَاوَةٌ; and حَلَتْ, aor. ـُ 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. ـَ (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. ـَ (TA;) and حَلَا, (K,) aor. ـُ (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. ـُ (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:  Yousay 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.) 2 حلّاهُ, (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.) 3 حَالَيْتُهُ, (inf. n. مُحَالَاةٌ, TK,) (tropical:)  I jested, or joked, with him. (S, K, TA.) 4 أَحْلَوَ 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.) 5 تحلّاهُ: see 1.6 تَحَالَتْ She (a woman) affected, or made a show of, sweetness, and self-conceitedness. (S.) 8 احتلى لِينَفَقَةِ امْرَأَتِهِ, 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.) 10 إِسْتَحْلَوَ see 1, in two places. b2:  استحلاهُ also signifies He sought [to elicit] its, or his, sweetness. (TA.) 12 احلولى: see 1, first sentence. b2:  [Hence,] said of a man, He was, or became, sweet in disposition. (IAar.) A2:  احلولاهُ: see 1.حَلًا A medicine mixed, or moistened, with water or the like. (K.) حُلْوٌ 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.) حُلْوٌ 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.) حَلْوَى: see حَلْوَآءُ.حُلْوَى: see أَحْلَى.حَلْوَآءُ and ↓ حَلْوَى, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) the latter mentioned by As, of the fem. gender, (TA,) [Sweetmeat; as also ↓ حَلَاوَةٌ; (see حَلَّآءٌ, below;) this last and حَلْوَى used in this sense in the present day;] an eatable, (T, S, M, Msb,) well  known, (K,) prepared with sweetness; (T, M, Msb;) said to be peculiarly applied to such as is prepared with art [as distinguished from such as in naturally sweet]: (TA:) the حلواء mentioned in a trad. is said to be that which is termed مَجِيع [made of dates kneaded with milk]: (MF, TA:) the pl. of حَلْوَى is حَلَاوَى, with fet-h to the و. (Msb.) b2:  The former is also applied by some to Fruit: syn. فَاكِهَةٌ: (T, TA:) or both, (K,) or the former, (TA,) to sweet fruit. (K, TA.) A2:  See also حُلَاوَة.حُلْوَانٌ is a subst. [as well as an inf. n.], signifying A gift: (Msb:) [a gratuity: so in the present day:] the hire, or pay, of a broker; (Lh, K;) and of a diviner, (As, S, * Msb, * K,)  for divination, (As,) which is forbidden in a trad.: (S, Msb:) and a requital; see 1. (IAar, K.) Also The dowry, or nuptial gift, of a woman: (Msb, K:) [or a portion thereof which the father or guardian of the bride used, in some cases, to take for himself; see 1:] or a gift to a woman in consideration of having her as a wife during a certain fixed period; (K;) according to a practice obtaining in Mekkeh: (TA:) or a gift of the nature of a bride. (K.) حَلُوٌّ: see حُلْوٌ. b2:  نَاقَةٌ حَلُوَّةٌ: see the next paragraph.قَوْلٌ حَلِىٌّ A saying sweet in the mouth. (K.) b2:  نَاقَةٌ حَلِيَّةٌ (Lh, M, K) and ↓ حَلُوَّةٌ, (K,) the latter is the original form [but app. obsolete], (Lh, M,) A she-camel eminent, (Lh, M,) or perfect, (K,) in pleasingness, or goodliness, or beauty: (Lh, M, K:) or pleasing in appearance and pace. (TA in art. علو.) حُلَآءَةُ القَفَا: see حُلَاوَة.حَلَاوَةٌ Sweetness; contr. of مَرَارَةٌ. (TA.) [See 1, of which it is an inf. n.] b2:  See also حَلْوَآءُ.A2:  أَرْضٌ حَلَاوَةٌ Land that produces herbs, or leguminous plants, of the kind termed ذُكُور [q. v.]. (K.) A3:  See also what next follows.حُلَاوَةُ القَفَا (T, S, Msb, K) and القفا ↓ حَلَاوَةُ, (IAth, K,) but this is said by Ks to be unknown, (TA,) and القفا ↓ حِلَاوَةُ (IAth) and القفا ↓ حُلَآءَةُ, (K, TA,) with damm, mentioned by Lh, (TA, [in the CK حَلاءَة,]) and القفا ↓ حَلْوَآءُ (Sgh, K) and القفا ↓ حُلَاوَى and القفا ↓ حَلَاوَآءُ, (S, K,) The middle of the back of the neck: (T, S, Msb, K:) or, as some say, the [small protuberance termed]فَأْس of [or rather above] the back of the neck. (T.) A2:  حُلَاوَةٌ is also said to signify the same as حُلَآءَةٌ, i. e. What is rubbed between two stones, to be used as a collyrium. (TA. [See the latter of these two words in art. حلأ.]) حِلَاوَةُ القَفَا: see the next preceding paragraph.حُلَاوَى A certain plant: (S:) or a certain small tree, (K,) of the kind termed جَنْبَة, evergreen: (TA:) and, (K,) or, as some say, (TA,) a certain thorny plant, (K,) having a yellow flower, and small round leaves like those of the سَذَاب [or rue]: (TA:) a species of plant found in the desert: (T, TA:) pl. حُلَاوَى, (K,) like the sing., (TA,) and, (K,) or, as some say, (TA,) حُلَاوَيَاتٌ. (K.) It has been said that the sing. is حَلَاوِيَةٌ, like رَبَاعِيَةٌ: but Az says that this was not known by him: As mentions, as of the measure فُعَالَى, the words خُزَامَى and رُخَامَى and حُلَاوَى: each the name of a plant. (TA.) A2: حُلَاوَى القَفَا: see حُلَاوَة.حَلَاوَآءُ القَفَا: see حُلَاوَة.حَلَّآءٌ A maker and seller of حَلَاوَة [or sweetmeat]. (TA.) أَحْلَى More, and most, sweet, both properly and metaphorically:] ↓ حُلْوَى is [its fem.,] the contr. of مُرَّى: you say, خُذِ الحُلْوَى وَأَعْطِهِ المُرَّى[Take thou the sweeter, or sweetest, and give to him the bitterer, or bitterest]. (S.) مَا أُحَيْلَاهُ: see 4, last sentence.