انطلق

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انطلقVII , Verbal.Noun اِنْطِلَاقٌ, of which the dim. is نُطَيْلِيقٌ , the conjunctive ا being rejected, so that it becomes نِطْلَاقٌ, [He was, or became, loosed from his bond: whence,] اِنْطِلَاقُ العِنَانِ [The rein's being let loose, or slackened,] is a phrase metonymically used to denote quickness in going along.
2 [Hence,] He went his way: or [simply] he went away, or departed: or he went removing from his place. Thus in the Kur [lxxvii. 29], اِنْطَلِقُوا إِلى مَا كُنْتُمْ بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ [Depart ye to that in which ye disbelieved]; meaning to the punishment: or, accord. to IAth, [it seems to mean go ye away quickly into the lowest depth of misery or affliction; for he says, app. in explanation of this verse of the Kur, that] الاِنْطِلَاقُ means سُرْعَةُ الذَّهَابِ فِى أَصْلِ المِحْنَةِ. And one says also, انطلق يَفْعَلُ كَذَا He went away doing, or to do, such a thing. وَٱنْطَلَقَ ٱلْمَلَأُ مِنْهُمْ أَنِ ٱمْشُوا [in the Kur xxxviii. 5 may be expl. in a similar manner; أَن being here used in the place of يَقُولُونَ: or this] means [And the chief persons of them] broke forth, or launched forth, with their tongues, [saying,] Go ye on, or continue ye, in your course of action &c. (Mughnee, voce أَنْ.) And one says, اُنْطُلِقَ بِهِ, meaning He, or it, was taken away; like as one says, اُنْقُطِعَ بِهِ.
3 [انطلق لِسَانُهُ means His tongue was, or became, free from impediment; and hence, eloquent, or chaste in speech. See an ex. in the Kur xxvi. 12: and see also طَلُقَ لِسَانُهُ.]
4 انطلق said of the face: see 1, latter half, in two places.

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