اعضل
Root: عضل
Form: 4
Full Definition
اعضلIV
It was, or became, hard, strait, or difficult, syn. اِشْتَدَّ; and as though it were closed against one syn. اِسْتَغْلَقَ. You say, اعضل بِهِ الأَمْرُ, and به, and عَضَّلَ به, and اعضلهُ, The affair was, or became, hard, strait, or difficult, to him, syn. اشتدّ; and as though it were closed against him, syn. استغلق.
2 And أَعْضَلَنِى فُلَانٌ, or اعضل بِى, Such a one's affair, or case, wearied me. Hence the phrase, in a trad. of 'Omar, أَعْضَلَ بِى أَهْلُ الكُوفَةِ, i. e. [The people of El-Koofeh have caused that] the means of effecting my object in their affair, or case, have become strait to me, and the treating them with gentleness has become difficult to me: from عُضَالٌ, as applied to a disease, or as meaning a “ hard, ” or “ difficult, ” affair, “ which one will not undertake, ” or “ [be able to] manage. ” One says of a disease [such as is termed عُضَال], اعضل الأَطِبَّآءَ, and تَعَضَّلَهُمْ , It overcame the physicians, and wearied them.
3 See also 2.
2 And أَعْضَلَنِى فُلَانٌ, or اعضل بِى, Such a one's affair, or case, wearied me. Hence the phrase, in a trad. of 'Omar, أَعْضَلَ بِى أَهْلُ الكُوفَةِ, i. e. [The people of El-Koofeh have caused that] the means of effecting my object in their affair, or case, have become strait to me, and the treating them with gentleness has become difficult to me: from عُضَالٌ, as applied to a disease, or as meaning a “ hard, ” or “ difficult, ” affair, “ which one will not undertake, ” or “ [be able to] manage. ” One says of a disease [such as is termed عُضَال], اعضل الأَطِبَّآءَ, and تَعَضَّلَهُمْ , It overcame the physicians, and wearied them.
3 See also 2.
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