دُلْدُلٌ
Root: دل
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دُلْدُلٌ
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دَلْدَالٌ A people, or party, wavering, vacillating, or hanging in suspense, between two affairs, and not pursuing a direct course. You say also, جَاوُوا دُلْدُلًا, meaning They came wavering; not inclining to these nor to those.
def.2 دُلْدُلٌ also signifies A case, or an affair, of great magnitude or moment, difficult, or formidable. You say, وَقَعَ القَوْمُ فِى الدَّلْدُلِ [The people, or party, fell into that which was a case of great magnitude &c.]. [See also a similar phrase in the next paragraph.])
def.3 Also, and دُلْدُولٌ , The قُنْفُذ [or hedge-hog]: or a species of قنفذ having long prickles: or a large قنفذ: or the male قنفذ: or an animal like the قنفذ; it is a certain beast that shakes, and shoots forth prickles like arrows: the difference between it and the قنفذ is like that between فِئَرَة and جِرْذَانْ, and the ox-kind and buffaloes, and Arabian camels and those called بَخَاتِىّ: or a certain large thing, larger than the قنفذ, having long prickles.
2 Also, the former, without the article ال incorrectly written in the K with that article, the name of A certain mule, of a colour in which whiteness predominated over blackness, belonging to the Prophet.
def.2 دُلْدُلٌ also signifies A case, or an affair, of great magnitude or moment, difficult, or formidable. You say, وَقَعَ القَوْمُ فِى الدَّلْدُلِ [The people, or party, fell into that which was a case of great magnitude &c.]. [See also a similar phrase in the next paragraph.])
def.3 Also, and دُلْدُولٌ , The قُنْفُذ [or hedge-hog]: or a species of قنفذ having long prickles: or a large قنفذ: or the male قنفذ: or an animal like the قنفذ; it is a certain beast that shakes, and shoots forth prickles like arrows: the difference between it and the قنفذ is like that between فِئَرَة and جِرْذَانْ, and the ox-kind and buffaloes, and Arabian camels and those called بَخَاتِىّ: or a certain large thing, larger than the قنفذ, having long prickles.
2 Also, the former, without the article ال incorrectly written in the K with that article, the name of A certain mule, of a colour in which whiteness predominated over blackness, belonging to the Prophet.
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