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عَضَلَهَا

Root: عضل

Form: 1

Full Definition

عَضَلَهَاI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ; or it is مُثَلَّثَة, i. e. the Present.T is ـُ and - There is no diacritic in the original text. and ـَ the first of which is the most chaste and most known, and the second is mentioned by such as IKtt and ISd, whereas the last is unknown and there is no reason for it; or the author of the K may mean by this that the verb is like نَصَرَ and ضَرَبَ and عَلِمَ, not مَنَعَ as one might understand it to mean at first sight; (TA; [but I do not find that any one has mentioned عَضِلَهَا;]) Verbal.Noun عَضْلٌ and عِضْلٌ and عِضْلَانٌ; and عضّلها , Verbal.Noun تَعْضِيلٌ; He prevented, withheld, or debarred, her from marrying, (As, S, O, Msb, K, [الزَّوْجُ in the CK being a mistake for الزَّوْجَ,]) wrongfully; i. e., a woman, or his husbandless woman, or a woman highly esteemed by him. The primary signification of العَضْلُ is The act of straitening; or preventing, withholding, or debarring; and straitening.
2 عَضَلَ عَلَيْهِ: see 2.
3 عَضَلَ بِهِ: see 4.

def.2 عَضَلْتُهُ, Verbal.Noun عَضْلٌ, I struck his عَضَلَة [i. e. muscle].

def.3 عَضِلَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun عَضَلٌ, said of a man, [He was, or became, muscular, musculous, or brawny;] he had many عَضَلَات or عَضَل [i. e. muscles]: or he was large in the عَضَلَة [or muscle] of his shank.
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