مُعَقَّلَةٌ
Root: عقل
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مُعَقَّلَةٌ
is applied to camels (إِبِلٌ) as meaning Bound with the rope called
عِقَال. And also to a she-camel bound therewith on the occasion of her being covered: and hence the epithet مُعَقَّلَاتٌ is applied by a poet, metonymically, to women, in a similar sense.
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