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دَخْلٌ

Root: دخل

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دَخْلٌ Income, or revenue, or profit, that comes in, or accrues, to a man from his immovable property, such as land and houses and palm-trees &c., and from his merchandise; contr. of خَرْجٌ; as also مَدْخُولٌ [for مَدْخُولٌ بِهِ]: the former is originally an Verbal.Noun, of which the verb is دَخَلَ, Present.T ـُ. You say, دَخْلُهُ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ خَرْجِهِ [His income is more than his outgoings, or expenditure].

def.2 See also دُخْلَةٌ.
2 A disease; as also دَخَلٌ : a vice, fault, defect, or blemish; and particularly in one's grounds of pretension to respect, as also, thus restricted, دَخَلٌ : and a thing that induces doubt, or suspicion, or evil opinion; as also دَخَلٌ [app. in all the senses explained in this sentence: each originally an Verbal.Noun: see دُخِلَ and دَخِلَ]. Hence the saying, of ـُ Athmeh Bint-Matrood, وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ بِالدَّخْلِ تَرَى الفِتْيَانَ كَالنَّخْلِ [Thou seest the youths, or young men, like palmtrees; but what will acquaint thee with the vice, &c., that is, or may be, in them]: applied in relation to him who is of pleasing aspect, but devoid of good. (O, TA. [See also another reading of this verse voce رَقْلَةٌ.])

def.3 See also دِخَالٌ:

def.4 and دَخِلٌ.
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