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سُخَّلٌ

Root: سخل

Full Definition

سُخَّلٌ and سُخَّالٌ , applied to men, Weak; bad, vile, or base; or low, ignoble, mean, or sordid: a pl. having no sing.: or its sing. is سَخْلٌ : (K, TA: in the CK سُخَّلٌ [like the former pl.]:) so says Khálid.
2 Also سُخَّلٌ, or سَخْلٌ , [in the TA without any syll. signs,] Anything not completed.
3 Also the former, in the dial. of the people of El-Medeeneh, The sort of dates termed شِيص, i. e. of which the stones do not become hard: or, accord. to 'Eesà Ibn-'Omar, dates of which two or three grow together in one place, intermingling.
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