Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَدَّالٌ

Root: بدل

Full Definition

بَدَّالٌ A seller of eatables of every kind: thus he is called by the Arabs; because he changes one sale for another; selling one thing to-day and another to-morrow: the vulgar say, بَقَّالٌ.
2 Also One who has no more property than is sufficient for his purchasing one thing, and who, when he sells this, buys another thing in exchange for it. (TA in art. جدل.) [Hence,] هٰذَا رَأْىُ الجَدَّالِينَ وَالبَدَّالِينَ is a phrase used as meaning This is flimsy opinion. (TA in the present art. and in art. جدل, [but in the latter without the و,] on the authority of AHeyth.)


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