Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَعْجَلُ

Root: عجل

Full Definition

أَعْجَلُ [More, and most, hasty, speedy, quick, or expeditious: and more, and most, fleeting, or short-lived]. They say, in relation to the affecting of hardiness, or strength, and endurance, and to soundness of body, لَيْتَنِى وَفُلَانًا يُفْعَلُ بِنَا كَذَا حَتَّى يَمُوتَ الأَعْجَلُ [Would that such a thing might be done to me and such a one until the more short-lived die].


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