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اولج

Root: ولج

Form: 4

Full Definition

اولجIV , Verbal.Noun إِيلَاجٌ; and , as in the CK and in several MS. copies of the K) or أَتْلَجَ, (as in the L, and all the copies of the K consulted by SM, in this art., and in art. تلج,) in which ت is substituted for و, and this is the correct reading; He, or it, caused to enter; introduced; inserted.
2 The expression in the Kur. [xxii. 60; and other chapters,] يُولِجُ ٱللَّيلَ فِى النَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِى ٱللَّيْلِ signifies He maketh the night, by increasing it, to enter into, [or encroach upon,] the day, and maketh the day, in like manner, to enter into, [or encroach upon,] the night: or He increaseth the night with a part of the day, by taking from the latter and adding to the former, and in like manner increaseth the day with a part of the night.
3 [اولج is often used for اولج ذكره; and hence as meaning Inivit.]


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