فَضْلَةٌ
Root: فضل
Full Definition
فَضْلَةٌ
: see فَضْلٌ, former half, in two places.
2 [Hence, as used by grammarians,] A dispensable member of a proposition; such as the objective complement of a verb, when the suppression thereof is not detrimental [to the meaning]; contr. of عُمْدَةٌ. [The pl. is فَضَلَاتٌ.]
3 And The clothes that are used for sleeping [therein]: [so called] because they are an addition over and above the clothes that are used on various [other] occasions.
4 And Wine; and so فِضَالٌ [which see also in what here follows]: الفَضْلَةُ is mentioned by A'Obeyd as a name for wine: or it signifies, accord. to AHn, the wine that alters [or has become altered] in colour after oldness; and ISd says that it is so called because the choice, or best, or most excellent, part thereof [for لأنّ حميمها in my original I read لِأَنَّ صَمِيمَهَا ] is what remains: the pl. is فَضَلَاتٌ and فِضَالٌ [the latter word mentioned above as a syn. of فَضْلَةٌ].
2 [Hence, as used by grammarians,] A dispensable member of a proposition; such as the objective complement of a verb, when the suppression thereof is not detrimental [to the meaning]; contr. of عُمْدَةٌ. [The pl. is فَضَلَاتٌ.]
3 And The clothes that are used for sleeping [therein]: [so called] because they are an addition over and above the clothes that are used on various [other] occasions.
4 And Wine; and so فِضَالٌ [which see also in what here follows]: الفَضْلَةُ is mentioned by A'Obeyd as a name for wine: or it signifies, accord. to AHn, the wine that alters [or has become altered] in colour after oldness; and ISd says that it is so called because the choice, or best, or most excellent, part thereof [for لأنّ حميمها in my original I read لِأَنَّ صَمِيمَهَا ] is what remains: the pl. is فَضَلَاتٌ and فِضَالٌ [the latter word mentioned above as a syn. of فَضْلَةٌ].
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