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أَزْلٌ

Root: ازل

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أَزْلٌ Straitness; distress; difficulty; and drought, or want of rain.
2 Vehemence of might, or of strength, in war, or fight; of courage, valour, or prowess: or of war, or fight: or of fear: or of punishment: syn. شِدَّةُ بَأْسٍ.

def.2 It is also used as an epithet, meaning Strait; narrow; confined.
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