Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَائِلٌ

Root: سأل

Full Definition

سَائِلٌ [i. e. Asking; meaning interrogating, questioning, or inquiring; and demanding, or begging;] has for its pl. سَأَلَةٌ and سُؤَّالٌ. See سُؤَلَةٌ.
2 It also means [A beggar; i. e.] a poor man asking, or begging, a thing. So it has been expl. as used in the Kur [xciii. 10], where it is said, وَأَمَّا ٱلسَّائِلَ فَلَا تَنْهَرْ [And as for the beggar, thou shalt not chide him, or address him with rough speech]: or, accord. to El-Hasan, it here means the seeker of knowledge.


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