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الفِئَالُ

Root: فأل

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الفِئَالُ A certain game of the boys of the desert-Arabs, with earth, or dust: they hide a thing in earth, or dust, and then divide it, and say, In which of them twain is it? [See also الفَيَالُ, in art. فيل.]
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