Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَبِيلٌ

Root: ابل

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أَبِيلٌ A Christian monk; so called because of his abstaining (لِتَأَبُلِهِ) from women: or the chief monk: or a derotee: or an old man, or elder: or the chief, or head-man, of the Christians: or the man who calls them to prayer by means of the ...


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