الاِسْتِفْحَالُ
Root: فحل
Form: 10
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الاِسْتِفْحَالُX
signifies The practice of persons' giving to a man of big make, and comely appearance, free access to their women, in order that he may beget among them the like of himself; which the unbelievers (عُلُوج, O, or أَعْلَاج, K) of Kábul do [or used to do] when seeing such a man, of the Arabs: so Lth was told, and thus he has expl. the word, after saying that he errs who says اِسْتَفْحَلْنَا
فَحْلًا لِدَوَابِّنَا [app. meaning We sought, or demanded, a stallion for our beasts].
2 استفحلت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree became a فُحَّال [or tree of which the spadix might be used for the purpose of fecundation].
3 And استفحل الأَمْرُ
2 استفحلت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree became a فُحَّال [or tree of which the spadix might be used for the purpose of fecundation].
3 And استفحل الأَمْرُ
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