أَفْلَوَ
Root: فلو
Form: 4
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أَفْلَوَIV
see 1, first sentence, in three places.
2 افلت said of a mare, and of a she-ass, means She was one whose colt had attained to the age for his being weaned, And the phrase قَدْ أَفْلَيْنَ أَمْهَارَا, ending a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, and referring to wild animals, means, as expl. by AHn, that had become in the state in which their young ones were full-grown and in no need of their mothers.
def.2 And افلى القَوْمُ The people, or party, came to the فَلَاة [or desert, &c.]: or, as Z says, entered it; which is nearly the same as the former explanation.
2 افلت said of a mare, and of a she-ass, means She was one whose colt had attained to the age for his being weaned, And the phrase قَدْ أَفْلَيْنَ أَمْهَارَا, ending a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, and referring to wild animals, means, as expl. by AHn, that had become in the state in which their young ones were full-grown and in no need of their mothers.
def.2 And افلى القَوْمُ The people, or party, came to the فَلَاة [or desert, &c.]: or, as Z says, entered it; which is nearly the same as the former explanation.
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