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الفَلَاةَ

Root: فلى

Form: 8

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الفَلَاةَVIII , or المَكَانَ, They depasture the herbage of the فلاة [or desert, or waterless desert, &c.], or of the place, and seek for the portions of herbage that are beginning to dry up therein; like as [is done when] the head is searched for lice (كَمَا يُفْتَلَى الرَّأْسُ or كما يُفْلَى الرأس accord. to two transcripts from the T). (T in arts. فلو and فلى of the TT.) [This meaning of the verb is expl. in art. فلو, to which it does not belong.]
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