Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

غَازَلَهَا

Root: غزل

Form: 3

Full Definition

غَازَلَهَاIII , Verbal.Noun مُغَازَلَةٌ, He talked with her, and acted in an amatory and enticing manner with her; and in like manner one says of a woman with a man: or he played, or sported, [or dallied, or wantoned,] and held amorous talk, with her.
2 [Hence,] one says, أَطْيَبُ مِنْ أَنْفَاسِ الصَّبَا إِذَا غَازَلَتْ رِيَاضَ الربا [More pleasant, or delightful, than the breaths of the east wind when it has wantoned with the meadows of الربا, (app. الرُّبَا, the name of a place, mentioned in the K in art. ربو, there written الرُّبَى, and in the TA in that art. said to occur in poetry,) so as to have brought with it the odours of flowers]. And هُوَ يُغَازِلُ رَغَدًا مِنَ العَيْشِ [app. meaning He plays the wanton with ampleness and easiness and pleasantness of the means of subsistence].
3 And غازل الأَرْبَعِينَ He approached [the age of] forty [years].


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