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أَصِيلٌ

Root: اصل

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أَصِيلٌ [Having root, or a foundation; and consequently, having rootedness, fixedness, immobility, stability, or permanence; rooted, fixed, immoveable, stable, or permanent]. You say, إِنَّ النَّخْلَ فِى أَرْضِنَا لَأَصِيلٌ Verily the palm-trees in our land remain permanently, not perishing.
2 A man having أَصْل, i. e., lincage, or pedigree: or established in his أَصْل: or noble, or generous.
3 A man firm of judgment, and intelligent. (M, K.* [Accord. to the copies of the latter, the signification is عَاقِبٌ ثَابِتُ الرَّأْىِ: but I think that the right reading of the first word is عَاقِلٌ, as in the M, in which this word occupies the last place in the explanation.]) And أَصِيلُ الرَّأْىِ A man firm, or sound, of judgment. And رَأْىٌ أَصِيلٌ Judgment having أَصْل [i. e. firmness]. And مَجْدٌ أَصِيلٌ Glory, honour, dignity, or nobility, having a firm root or foundation. And شَرٌّ أَصِيلٌ Vehement evil or mischief.

def.2 See also أَصِلٌ, in two places.
2 [Hence, app.,] الأَصِيلُ Destruction: and death: as also, in both senses, .

def.3 [The evening; or] i. q. عَشِىٌّ; i. e. the time from the عَصْر, from the prayer of the عصر, to sunset; as also : the pl. is أُصُلٌ, or ↓ this is a sing., or it may be a sing., for it is used as such, and أُصْلَانٌ, and آصَالٌ, [a pl. of pauc.,] or, accord. to Es- Saláh Es-Safadee, this is a pl. of أُصُلٌ, the sing., not the pl., or it is pl. of أُصُلٌ, which may be a pl. or a sing., and أَصَائِلُ, as though pl. of أَصِيلَةٌ, or it is pl. of this last word. You say, لَقِيتُهُ أَصِيلًا and , i. e. [I met him in the evening,] عَشِيًّا. From the pl. أُصْلَانُ is formed the dim. أُصَيْلَانٌ , which is extr., because the dim. of a pl. is [regularly] formed only from a pl. of pauc., which اصلان is not; or, if اصلان be a sing., like رُمَّانٌ and قُرْبَانٌ, this dim. is regular: sometimes, one says also , substituting ل for the [final] ن You say, ↓لَقِيتُهُ أُصَيْلَانًا and , meaning, as above, عَشِيًّا: and Lh mentions لقيته .
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