Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَيْلَةٌ

Root: عيل

Full Definition

عَيْلَةٌ [mentioned above as an Verbal.Noun, and also said in the K to be a subst.,] Poverty, and want; thus in the Kur ix. 28; as also عَالَةٌ ; and عَائِلَةٌ , and thus accord. to one reading in the Kur ix. 28; and accord. to IAar, عِيلٌ , with kesr, is syn. with عَيْلَةٌ.

def.2 It is also a pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of عَائِلٌ q. v.

def.3 طَالَ عَيْلَتِى إِيَّاكَ means Long has continued my feeding, nourishing, or sustaining, thee. (O, K. [But this app. belongs to art. عول: see the first sentence in that art.])


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