أَلَيَانٌ

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أَلَيَانٌ and أَلْيَانُ and آلَى , of the measure أَفْعَلُ, and آلٌ , or أَلًى , or أَلْىٌ , or , and آلٍ , applied to a ram, Large in the أَلْيَة, q. v.: and so, applied to a ewe, أَلَيَانَةٌ, (T, M, K, [in the CK اَلْيَانَةٌ,]) fem. of أَلَيَانٌ; and , fem. of آلَى: and in like manner these epithets [masc. and fem. respectively, آلَى, however, being omitted in the M,] are applied to a man and to a woman; or, accord. to Aboo-Is-hák, آلَى is applied to a man, and عَجْزَآءُ to a woman, but not أَلْيَآءُ, though [it is asserted that] some say this, Yz saying so, accord. to A 'Obeyd, but A 'Obeyd has erred in this matter: the pl. is أُلْىٌ, (T, S, M, K, [in the CK erroneously written with fet-h to the ا,]) pl. of آلَى, or of آلٍ; of the former because an epithet of this kind is generally of the measure أَفْعَلُ, or of the latter after the manner of بُزْلٌ as pl. of بَازِلٌ, and عُودٌ as pl. of عَائِدٌ; applied to rams and to ewes, and to men and to women; and أَلَيَانَاتٌ, (S, M, K, [in the CK اَلْيانات,]) pl. of أَلَيَانَةٌ, [but] applied to rams [as well as ewes], or to women, and, also applied to women, إِلَآءٌ, (M, and so in a copy of the K, [in the CK اَلآء,]) or آلَآءٌ, with medd, pl. of أَلًى, and أَلَايَا, pl. of أَلْيَانُ.

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