Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

طَالٍ

Root: طلو

Full Definition

طَالٍ A water to which camels come to drink overspread with [the green substance called] طُحْلُب [and طُلَوَآء].
2 And A dark night: as though it smeared [with tar] the forms, or persons, of men, and obscured them.


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