بَلٌّ
Root: بل
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بَلٌّ[
Moist, or containing moisture: or rather moistened; being, app., an Verbal.Noun used in the sense of a pass. part. n. ; like خَلْقٌ in the sense of مَخْلُوقٌ. Hence,] رِيحٌ بَلَّةٌ and ↓بَلِيلٌ and ↓بَلِيلَةٌ
A wind in which is moisture: or the last, a wind mixed with feeble rain: and the second, a wind cold with moisture; or the same, a wind cold with rain; the north wind, as though it sprinkled water by reason of its coldness: and
بَلَلٌ also signifies a cold north wind: بَلِيلٌ is used alike as sing. and pl. : it has no pl.
def.2 بَلٌّ بِشَىْءٍ A man devoted, or attached, to a thing, and keeping to it constantly. (M, K. [In the CK and in my MS. copy of the K, اللَّهْجُ is erroneously put for اللَّهِجُ.])
2 And بَلٌّ, alone, Much given to the deferring of payment to his creditors, by repeated promises; withholding, by swearing, what he possesses of things that are the rightful property of others. See also أَبَلٌّ, in two places.
def.2 بَلٌّ بِشَىْءٍ A man devoted, or attached, to a thing, and keeping to it constantly. (M, K. [In the CK and in my MS. copy of the K, اللَّهْجُ is erroneously put for اللَّهِجُ.])
2 And بَلٌّ, alone, Much given to the deferring of payment to his creditors, by repeated promises; withholding, by swearing, what he possesses of things that are the rightful property of others. See also أَبَلٌّ, in two places.
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