آهِلٌ

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آهِلٌ , [said by those unacquainted with the verb أَهَلَ in the first of the senses explained in this art. to be] a kind of rel. n., and , A place peopled, or inhabited: or a place having people: or the former has this signification; and the latter signifies having its people in it: or the former has this last signification: pl. of the latter مَآهِلُ, occurring in a poem of Ru-beh [app. by poetic licence for مَآهِيلُ]. You say قَرْيَةٌ آهِلَةٌ A peopled, or inhabited, town or village. And أَمْسَتْ نِيرَانُهُمْ آهِلَةٌ Their fires became in the evening attended by many people.

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