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إِبَالَةٌ

Root: ابل

Full Definition

إِبَالَةٌ : see إِبَّوْلٌ.

def.2 Also A bundle of firewood; and so إِبَّالَةٌ : or a great bundle of firewood; and so and بُلَةٌ and إِبَّالَةٌ : or a bundle of dry herbage; and so إِبَّالَةٌ and أَبِيلٌ and أَبِيلَةٌ and , (K, [in the CK اَيْبَالَة,]) with one of the two ب s changed into ى, and mentioned by Az, but it is said in the S and O that this is not allowable, because this change may not be made in a word of the measure فِعَّالَةٌ, with ة, but only in one without ة, as in the cases of دِينَارٌ and قِيرَاطٌ; and وَبِيلَةٌ signifies the same, belonging to art. وبل. Hence the prov., صِغْثٌ عَلَى إِبَالَةٍ and , but the former is the more common, and , which is allowed by Az but disallowed by J; [lit. A handful of herbage, or the like, upon a bundle, or great bundle, of firewood, or a bundle of dry herbage;] meaning a trial, or trying event, upon another that had happened before: or plenty (خِصْبٌ) upon plenty; as though bearing two contr. significations.
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