Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

التَّعَظُّلُ

Root: عظل

Form: 5

Full Definition

التَّعَظُّلُV is a dial. var. of التَّعَاظُلُ.
2 تعظّلوا عَلَيْهِ They collected themselves together against him; as also عظّلوا , Verbal.Noun تَعْظِيلٌ: or they bore, or pressed, or crowded, as though mounting one another, upon him, to beat him.
3 And one says, ظَلَّ يَتَعَظَّلُ فِى أَثَرِهِ مُنْذُ اليُوْمِ He passed the time pursuing hard after it during the day; meaning a thing that had escaped him.


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