بَخِيلٌ
Root: بخل
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بَخِيلٌ
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بَاخِلٌ Niggardly, tenacious, stingy, penurious, or avaricious; i. e. ذُو بُخْلٍ; epithets from 1: or one from whom niggardliness is experienced much or often: and so
بَخَلٌ , in Verbal.Noun used as an epithet [and therefore implying more than the possession of the simple attribute of niggardliness &c., being a kind of personification]; and
بَخَّالٌ and
بَخَالٌ and
مُبَخَّلٌ i. e. شَدِيدُ البُخْلِ [very, or vehemently, niggardly &c.]: pl. of the first, بُخَلَآءُ; and of the second, بُخَّلٌ and بُخَّالٌ.
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