مَآلٌ
Root: اول
Full Definition
2 [Hence, مَآلُهُ إِلَى كَذَا His, or its, return, or course, or transition, is to such a state or condition.]
def.2 Also, [as a noun of place &c.,] i. q. مَرْجِعٌ [as signifying A place, and a state, or condition, to which a person, or thing, returns; and, to which he, or it, ultimately, or eventually, comes]. (TA, [where this is given as a signification not mentioned in the K; so that مرجع is not here used as an Verbal.Noun: it is, moreover, a signification well known.]) See also 2, last sentence.
2 A refuge: applied in this sense to God.
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