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غَسِيلٌ

Root: غسل

Full Definition

غَسِيلٌ i. q. مَغْسُولٌ [i. e. Washed]; applied to a thing, and to a dead body; and the former is also applied as an epithet to a fem. n., as is also غَسِيلَةٌ; or this last is used after the manner of substs., like نَطِيحَةٌ and ذَبِيحَةٌ; not as is said in the S [and O] after the manner of epithets: the pl. of غَسِيلٌ is غَسْلِى and غُسَلَآءُ; and the pl. of غَسِيلَةٌ [and app. of غَسِيلٌ used a fem. epithet] is غَسَالَى or غُسَالَى. Han- dhaleh Ibn-er-Ráhib was called غَسِيلُ المَلَائِكَةِ [The washed of the angels], because he died a martyr on the day of Ohod, and the angels washed him, accord. to the Prophet, who said that he saw them washing him.
2 See also غُسَلَةٌ.
3 [It is now used as meaning Clothes, or the like, put together to be washed.]
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