مَضَلَّةٌ
Root: ضل
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مَضَلَّةٌ
a subst. like مَجْبَنَةٌ and مَبْخَلَةٌ [i. e., as such, signifying A cause of erring, straying, going astray, or deviating from the right way or course or from that which is right, &c.]: [and used in the manner of an epithet:] one says أَرْضٌ مَضَلَّةٌ
A land that causes one to err, &c.: or, as also
مَضِلَّةٌ , (S, O, Msb, K, TA, [in the CK مِضَلَّةٌ,]) and
ضُلَضِلَةٌ , a land in which one errs, or strays, from the [right] way; in which one does not find the right way: and خَرْقٌ مضلّةٌ [A desert, or farextending desert, &c., in which one errs, &c.]: it is used alike as masc. and fem. and pl.: but one says also أَرَضُونَ مضلّاتٌ.
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