عَجُولٌ
Root: عجل
Full Definition
2 Also A she camel distracted, or confounded, or perplexed, having lost her young one; because of her quickness in her motions, i. e. in her coming and going, by reason of impatience: and a woman bereft of her child: pl. عُجُلٌ, and, accord. to the K, عَجَائِلُ, but correctly مَعَاجِلُ , as in the L, an anomalous pl.
3 And العَجُولُ signifies Death, or the decree of death; syn. المَنِيَّةُ: because it [often] hurries him whom it befalls so as to prevent him from reaching his family.
4 See also عُجَّالٌ: and see a phrase in the latter half of the second paragraph of this art.
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