بَتُولٌ
Root: بتل
Full Definition
2 A virgin, that is cut off from husbands: a woman that withholds herself from men, or that is cut off from men, having no desire for them, nor need of them; and, with the art. ال, applied to the Virgin Mary; as also بَتِيلٌ : with the art. ال, it is applied also to Fátimeh, the daughter of Mohammad, because she was separated from the [other] women of her age and nation by chasteness and excel-lence and religion and [other] grounds of pretension to respect: or it signifies, or signifies also, a woman detached from worldly things, and devoted to God; as also بَتِيلٌ and بَتِيلَةٌ .
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