ظَلِيلٌ
Root: ظل
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ظَلِيلٌ
A place having shade: or having constant shade. And hence ظِلٌّ ظَلِيلٌ Constant shade: or extensive shade: or in this case the latter word denotes intensiveness [meaning dense]; being like شَاعِرٌ in the phrase شِعْرٌ شَاعِرٌ. ظِلًّا ظَلِيلًا in the Kur iv. 60 is said by Er-Rághib to be an allusion to ease and pleasantness of life. One says also أَيْكَةٌ ظَلِيلَةٌ
A collection of trees tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense. In the saying of Uheyhah Ibn-El-Juláh, describing palm-trees, The final character of line one and the initial character of line two are unclear. [ISd says] in my opinion, he means الشَّىْءُ الظَّلِيلُ
حَقَّ الظَّلِيلِ; [so that the verse should be rendered They are the shade in the heat, the shady thing, the extremely shady, and the most goodly, the most beautiful, thing at which one looks; (see the phrase هٰذَا العَالِمُ حَقَّ العَالِمِ, voce حَقٌّ;)] the Verbal.Noun being put in the place of the subst. لَا ظَلِيلٍ in the Kur [lxxvii. 31] means Not profitable as the shade in protecting from the heat.
هِىَ الظِّلُّ فِى الحَرِّ حَقَّ الظَّلِ لِ وَالمَنْظَرُ الأَحْسَنُ الأَجْمَلُ
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