دَلْدَالٌ
Root: دل
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دَلْدَالٌ
[Motion, or commotion, or a moving about, of a thing suspended, and of the head and limbs in walking;] a subst. from دَلْدَلَ in the first of the senses assigned to this verb above: agitation, convulsion, tumult, or disturbance. [Hence,] one says, وَقَعَ القَوْمُ
فِى دَلْدَالٌ
The people, or party, fell into an unsound, a corrupt, or a disordered, and an unsteady, or a fluctuating, state of affairs.
2 See also another signification in the next preceding paragraph.
2 See also another signification in the next preceding paragraph.
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