مُعَطَّلٌ
Root: عطل
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مُعَطَّلٌ
[pass. part. n. of 2 ] is applied to Anything left untended, unminded, or neglected; as also
مُعْطَلٌ . [Thus] مُعَطَّلُونَ signifies People, or subjects, left without any one to govern them. And إِبِلٌ مُعَطَّلَةٌ
Camels [left] without a pastor. And المُعَطَّلُ
What has no owner, of which no use is made, and from which no advantage is derived, of land. And بِئْرٌ
مُعَطَّلَةٌ, and
accord. to one reading [in the Kur xxii. 44], A well from which water is not drawn, and of the water of which no use is made: or it is thus called because [it is one of which] its owners have perished: neglected by reason of the death of its owners.
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