أَصُلَ
Root: اصل
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 [Hence,] أَصُلَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He was, or became, firm, or sound, of judgment; intelligent. (M: [and so, probably, in correct copies of the K; but in a MS. copy of the K and in the CK; and TA, instead of عَاقِل, the reading in the M, I find عَاقِب.])
3 Also, Verbal.Noun as above, It was, or became, firm, or sound, or good.
4 And, Verbal.Noun as above, It was, or became, eminent, noble, or honourable.
def.2 أَصَلَهُ, [Present.T and Verbal.Noun as in what follows next after this sentence,] He hit, or struck, its root, or foundation; that by being which it was what it was, or in being which it consisted; or its ultimate constituent.
2 And hence, أَصَلَهُ عِلْمًا, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun أَصْلٌ: or [with medd, and without علما];
3 أَصَلَتْهُ الأَصَلَةُ, Verbal.Noun أَصْلٌ, The [serpent called] اصلة sprang upon him and slew him.
def.3 أَصِلَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَصَلٌ, said of water, i. q. أَسِنَ; i. e. It became altered for the worse in its taste and odour, from fetid black mud therein: so says Ibn-'Abbád: and said of flesh-meat, it became altered in like manner.
def.4 أَصِلَ فُلَانٌ يَفْعَلُ كَذَا وَ كَذَا Such a one set about, or commenced, doing thus and thus, or such and such things.
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