ابال
Root: بول
Form: 4
Full Definition
ابالIV
, and
, [He, or it, made, or caused, the horses to stale: or] he stopped the horses for the purpose of [their] staling. One says, لَنُبِيلَنَّ الخَيْلَ فِى
عرَصَاتِكُمْ [We will assuredly make the horses to stale in your courts]. And it is said in a prov., بَالَ حِمَارٌ أَحْمِرَةٌ
An ass staled, and caused some asses to stale: applied to a case in which people help one another to do what is disagreeable.
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