ضَلَلْتُ
Root: ضل
Form: 1
Full Definition
ضَلَلْتُI
, third pers. ضَلَّ, Present.T
ضَلِلَ
Verbal.Noun ضَلَالٌ and ضَلَالَةٌ; and ضَلِلْتُ, third pers. as above; the former of the dial. of Nejd, and the more chaste; the latter of the dial. of the people of El-'Áliyeh, and of El- Hijáz, and Kr has mentioned ضِلِلْتُ for ضَلِلْتُ as heard from the tribe of Temeem; I erred, strayed, or went astray; deviated from the right way or course, or from that which was right; missed, or lost, the right way; or lost my way;
ضَلَالٌ and ضَلَالَةٌ signifying the contr. of
رَشَادٌ, and هُدًى. [See ضَلَالٌ below.] Hence, in the Kur [xxxiv. 49], قُلْ إِنْ ضَلَلْتُ فِإِنَّمَا أَضِلُّ عَلَى نَفْسِى [Say thou, If I err, I shall err only against myself, i. e., to my own hurt]. One says also, ضَلَّ ضَلَالُهُ [app. His error became error indeed; a phrase similar to جَدَّ جِدُّهُ, q. v.: or his erring passed away; see 4, latter part]. And ضَلَّ عَنِ القَصْدِ
He deviated from the right way or course. And the verb is trans. as well as intrans.: you say, ضَلَّ الطَّرِيقَ, and ضَلَّ عَنْهُ, Present.T
ضَلِلَ
and
ضَلَلَ
inf. ns. as above, meaning He erred, strayed, or went astray, from the road, or way; he did not find the way to the road: and of anything stationary, if you miss the place thereof, you say ضَلَلْتُهُ and ضَلِلْتُهُ: or you say, ضَلِلْتُ الطَّرِيقَ, or ضَلِلْتُ المَسْجِدَ, and الدَّارَ, [I missed, or lost, the right way to the road, or the mosque, and the house,] when you know not the place thereof: and in like manner, anything stationary, to which one does not find the way: and AA says the like: but that one says of a thing that falls from his hand, and a thing that quits its place, , which means I lost it, and knew not its place; meaning, for instance, a horse, or she-camel, or the like: [thus] one says, أَضْلَلْتُ بِعِيرِى [I lost my camel, and knew not his place,] when his shank has been tied up to his arm and one does not find the way to him, and when he has been left loose and has gone away whither one knows not: but Yoo differs from others respecting this case; for, accord. to him, one says, اضلّ
فُلَانٌ بَعِيرَهُ and also ضَلَّهُ, in the same sense; and the like is said in the K: and it is also said in the Bári' that when you seek an animal and miss its place and find not the way to it, it is regarded as in the category of stationary things, and therefore you say ضَلِلْتُهُ.
2 ضَلَّ signifies also He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course.
3 Also, Present.Tضَلِلَ
and
ضَلَلَ
the pret. being like زَلَّ and مَلَّ, Verbal.Noun ضَلَال, It became lost; [as though it went astray;] it perished, came to nought, or passed away. Thus in the phrase ضَلَّ عَنِّى كَذَا
Such a thing became lost from me. One says to him from whom pieces of money have dropped, قَدْ ضَلَّتْ عَنْكَ [They have become lost from thee]. And to him who has done a deed from which no profit has resulted, you say, قَد ضَلَّ سَعْيُكَ
4 And
5 And
6 ضَلِلْتُ الشَّىْءَ also signifies
7 And one says, ضَلَّنِى فُلَانٌ, or ضَلَّنِى فُلَانٌ فَلَمْ أَقْدَرْ عَلَيْهِ, meaning Such a one went away from me, and I was unable to compass him [or to find him]: so in the Bári'.
def.2 ضُلَّ, as a verb of wonder: see ضُلٌّ.
2 ضَلَّ signifies also He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course.
3 Also, Present.T
4 And
5 And
6 ضَلِلْتُ الشَّىْءَ also signifies
7 And one says, ضَلَّنِى فُلَانٌ, or ضَلَّنِى فُلَانٌ فَلَمْ أَقْدَرْ عَلَيْهِ, meaning Such a one went away from me, and I was unable to compass him [or to find him]: so in the Bári'.
def.2 ضُلَّ, as a verb of wonder: see ضُلٌّ.
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