عَلٌّ
Root: عل
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عَلٌّ
: see عَلَلٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also [in the CK erroneously with damm to the ع in all the senses here following that are expl. in the K] An emaciated tick: or a big-bodied tick: or a small-bodied one: pl. عِلَالٌ.
2 And A man advanced in age, small in body, or slender, or spare; as being likened to the tick. And anything slender (دَقِيق, for رَقِيق in the K is a mistranscription, TA) in body, advanced in age. And A man whose skin is contracted by disease.
3 Also One in whom is no good: Esh-Shenfarà says, وَلَسْتُ بِعَلٍّ [And I am not one in whom is no good: but the context seems rather to require one of the other meanings mentioned above: and another reading (بِفِلٍّ) is mentioned by De Sacy, in his Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., ii. 359].
4 Also A man who visits women much, or often, and diverts himself with them.
5 And A big-bodied, large he-goat.
def.2 Also [in the CK erroneously with damm to the ع in all the senses here following that are expl. in the K] An emaciated tick: or a big-bodied tick: or a small-bodied one: pl. عِلَالٌ.
2 And A man advanced in age, small in body, or slender, or spare; as being likened to the tick. And anything slender (دَقِيق, for رَقِيق in the K is a mistranscription, TA) in body, advanced in age. And A man whose skin is contracted by disease.
3 Also One in whom is no good: Esh-Shenfarà says, وَلَسْتُ بِعَلٍّ [And I am not one in whom is no good: but the context seems rather to require one of the other meanings mentioned above: and another reading (بِفِلٍّ) is mentioned by De Sacy, in his Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., ii. 359].
4 Also A man who visits women much, or often, and diverts himself with them.
5 And A big-bodied, large he-goat.
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