عَامِلٌ

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عَامِلٌ [Working; labouring; serving, or doing service: doing, acting, or performing: and doing, making, working, manufacturing, or constructing, a thing:] act. part. n. of عَمِلَ: pl. عَامِلُونَ and عُمَّالٌ and عَمَلَةٌ, which last signifies [particularly] workers with their hands, (Mgh in art. فعل, K, TA,) in various sorts of work, in clay or building or digging &c.; like فَعَلَةٌ [a pl. of فَاعِلٌ]: and عَوَامِلُ, as pl. of [the fem.] عَامِلَةٌ, [and likewise in this case of عَامِلٌ,] signifies oxen that plough, and that tread the corn, and upon which water is drawn, and that are employed in other labours; and in like manner applied to camels: and it is said in a trad. that in the case of such animals no poorrate is required.
2 Also [An administrator of public affairs; and particularly a governor of a province; and] a collector of the poor-rates [and the like]: and an agent who manages the affairs and property of another.

def.2 عَامِلُ الرُّمْحِ and The part, of the spear, that is next to the head, exclusive of the ثَعْلَب [or portion that enters into the head]: or the صَدْر [or fore part] of the spear, exclusive of the head, accord. to A'Obeyd two cubits in length: or, as some say, the spear-head itself is called عَامِلٌ: pl. عَوَامِلُ. See also ذِرَاعٌ, last sentence.

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