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ذِلَّةٌ

Root: ذل

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ذِلَّةٌ : see ذُلٌّ.
2 In the following verse, لِيَهْنِئْ تُرَاثِى لِٱمْرِئٍ غَيْرِ ذِلَّةٍ صَنَابِرُ أُحْدَانٌ لِهُنَّ حَفِيفُ [May my heritage give joy to a man not low, or base; slender arrows, singular of their kind, that have a whizzing sound], the meaning is, غَيْرِ ذَلِيلٍ, or غَيْرِ ذِى ذِلَّةٍ; and صنابر is put in the nom. case as a substitute for تراث.
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