اسو
Root: الى
Full Definition
[And verily they who know thee, of them]: which shows what has been said above, respecting the change of meaning. Ziyád El-Aajam uses the former of the two words without ال, saying,وَإَنَّ الإُلَآءِ يَعْلَمُونَكَ مِنْهُمُ
[For ye are they who came with the herbs, or leguminous plants, and the young locusts, and they have gone away, while these, yourselves, are not going away]: he means that their nobility is recent. (Ham p. 678; where, instead of فأنتم and اولى, we find وَأَنْتُمُ and أُلَا.)فَأَنْتُمْ أُولَى جِئْتُمْ مَعَ البَقْلِ وَالدَّبَى فَطَارَ وَهذَا شَخْصُكُمْ غَيْرُ طَائِرِ
2 In the phrase العَرَبُ الأُولَى, or الأُلَى, الاولى or الالى may also signify الَّذِينَ, the verb سَلَفُوا being suppressed after it, because understood; [so that the meaning is, The Arabs who have preceded, or passed away;] so says Ibn-EshShejeree: or it is formed by transposition from الأُوَلُ, being pl. of أُولَى [fem. of أَوَّلُ], like as أُخَرُ is pl. of آخَ: and it is thus in the phrase, ذَهَبَتِ العَرَبُ الأُولَى or الأُلَى [The first Arabs have passed away]. 'Obeyd Ibn-ElAbras uses the phrase, نَحْنُ الأُلَى [as meaning We are the first].
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