أَزَلَ
Root: ازل
Form: 1
Full Definition
def.2 أَزَلَهُ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He confined, restricted, restrained, withheld, debarred, hindered, or prevented, him; and straitened him; in consequence of distress, or adversity, and fear.
2 He shortened his rope, [or tether,] and then left him to pasture at pleasure (Lth, K, [in the CK, شَيَّبَهُ is put for سَيَّبَهُ,]) in the place of pasturage.
3 أَزَلُوا مَالَهُمْ, or أَمْوَالَهُمْ, Present.T as above, They confined, restricted, or debarred, their cattle from the place of pasturage, or did not take, or send, them forth thereto, in consequence of fear, or dearth or drought or sterility.
4 It is said in a trad. respecting Ed-Dejjál, and his besieging the Muslims in Beytel-Makdis, [or Jerusalem,] فَيُؤْزَلُونَ أَزْلًا شَدِيدًا And they will be straitened with a vehement straitening. And أُزِلَ النَّاسُ signifies The people suffered, or were afflicted with, drought, or want of rain.
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