سُولٌ

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سُولٌ i. q. مَسْأَلَةٌ [as signifying A petition; or a request; meaning a thing that is, or has been, asked, or begged; see سُؤْلٌ]; as also سُولَةٌ ; each, a dial. var. of the word with ء: (K, TA: [but it is also said in the latter that سُؤْلٌ is the original of سُولٌ because the readers of the Kur-án read the word with ء in chap. xx. verse 36:]) or an object of desire or wish (أُمْنِيَّةٌ), which one asks; or an object of want, which the soul eagerly desires: or an object of a man's desire (أُمْنِيَّةٌ), which embellishes to the seeker thereof that which is false, or vain, and other things of the deceptions of the present world: but there is a difference between سُولٌ and سُولَةٌ on the one hand and أُمْنِيَّةٌ on the other hand, in that the former relate to what is sought, or demanded, and امنيّة relates to what is meditated (قُدِّرَ); [for] this last primarily signifies “ a thing that a man meditates (يُقَدِّرُهُ) in his mind, ” from مَنَى signifying قَدَّرَ; so that the seems to be after the أُمْنِيَّة: سُولٌ may be from سَوَّلَتْ لَهُ نَفْسُهُ كَذَا in the first of the senses assigned to it above, and [from] سَوَّلَ said of the Devil in the last of the senses assigned to it above. [See also سُوَالٌ, below.]

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