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طِوَلٌ

Root: طول

Full Definition

طِوَلٌ , for which طِوَلٌّ occurs in poetry, and طِيَلٌ , for which also طِيَلٌّ occurs in poetry, and طَوِيلَةٌ , but this is disapproved by Az, and تِطْوَلٌ , A tether; i. e. the rope that is extended for a horse or similar beast, and attached to which he pastures: a rope with which the leg of such a beast is bound: a long rope thus used: or with which one binds him, holding its extremity, and letting the beast pasture: or of which one of the two ends is bound to a stake, and the other to the fore leg of a horse, in order that he may go round about bound thereby, and pasture, and not go away at random. An ex. of the first of these words occurs in a verse of Tarafeh cited voce ثِنْىٌ. And it is said in a trad. that when a man of an army alights in a place, he may debar others from the extent of the طِوَل of his horse.
2 أَرْخَى لَهُ الطِّوَلَ [lit. meaning He relaxed, or slackened, to him the tether] means [also] he left him to his own affair. (A and TA in art. رخو.)
3 And one says, طَالَ طِوَلُكَ and and and and and and and meaning Thy life [has become long; or may thy life become long]: (ISk, S, O, K: [see also طِيلَةٌ:]) or thine absence: or thy tarrying, and thy flagging in an affair. Tufeyl says, أَتَانَا فَلَمْ نَدْفَعْهُ إِذْ جَآءَ طَارِقًا وَقُلْنَا لَهُ طَالَ فَٱنْزِلِ meaning [He came to us, and we did not repel him since he came as a nightly visiter, and we said to him,] Thy case in respect of the length of the journey and the endurance of travel [has been long, therefore alight thou: or the right reading may be , which is better known]: or, as some relate it, . [It is also said that] طِوَلٌ is a pl. [or rather a coll. gen. n.] of which the sing. [or n. un.] is طِوَلَةٌ ; and in like manner, طِيَلٌ , of طِيَلَةٌ .
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