عَيَلٌ
Root: عيل
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عَيَلٌ
The propounding of one's narration, and talk, to him who does not desire it and whom it does not concern; [and so, app., عِيَالٌ ; for it is said that] this is what is meant in the saying of the Prophet, إِنَّ مِنَ القَوْلِ عَيَلًا, or, as some relate it, عِيَالًا: [whence it seems that both
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