عَلُ
Root: علو
Full Definition
[Like the thin pellicle of eggs, which the shell covers above], the و [in عَلُو] is augmentative, being added to render the rhyme unrestricted: and in the instance of مِنْ عَلُهْ, likewise ending a verse, the ه is that of pausation: for if عَلُ were [really] a prefixed noun, it would not be thus indecl.كَغِرْقِئِ بَيْضٍ كَنَّهُ القَيْضُ مِنْ عَلُو
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