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خُضُلَّةٌ

Root: خضل

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خُضُلَّةٌ A plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft or delicate, state of life. (K, TA. [In the CK, النِّعْمَةُ is erroneously put for النَّعْمَةُ.]) You say, هُمْ فِى خُضُلَّةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ They are in a plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft or delicate, state of life. And يَوْمُ خُضُلَّةٍ A day of plenty, and pleasure or ease, and softness or delicacy; or a day of plenty; or of abundance of herbage, or of the goods or conveniences or comforts of life; and of pleasantness and easiness of life. And نَزَلْنَا فِى خُضُلَّةٍ مِنَ العُشْبِ We alighted among green, soft or tender, fresh herbage.
2 Also A wife: or a name for a woman: and a soft, or tender, woman.
3 And The rainbow. And A halo round the moon.
4 One says also, دَعْنِى مِنْ خُضُلَّاتِكَ, meaning Let me alone, and cease from thy vain, or false, sayings or actions.


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