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فَسْلٌ

Root: فسل

Full Definition

فَسْلٌ and مَفْسُولٌ , as epithets applied to a man, Low, base, ignoble, vile, or mean; such as has no manliness, or manly virtue, and no hardiness: pl. [of pauc.] أَفْسَالٌ, or أَفْسُلٌ, or both, and [of mult.] فِسَالٌ and فُسُولٌ and فُسُولَةٌ and فُسْلٌ and فُسَلآءُ, which last is anomalous, as though they imagined it to have as its sing. فَسِيلٌ.
2 Also, the former, Anything bad, corrupt, vile, base, abominable, or disapproved. [The pl.] فُسُولٌ, applied to dirhems, or pieces of money, means Bad; or such as are termed زُيُوف.

def.2 And فَسْلٌ signifies also Cuttings from grape-vines, for planting.
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