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بِلَّةٌ

Root: بل

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بِلَّةٌ : see بَلَلٌ, in two places.
2 Also Good, good fortune, prosperity, or wealth: and sustenance, or means of subsistence.
3 Health; soundness; or freedom from disease.
4 A repast prepared on the occasion of a wedding, or on any occasion.
5 The tongue's fluency, and chasteness of speech: or its readiness of diction or expression, and facility; and [so in the M, but in the K “ or, ”] its falling upon the [right] places of utterance of the letters, and its regular and uniform continuance of speech, and its facility. You say, مَا أَحْسَنٌ بِلَّةَ لِسَانِهِ [How good is the fluency, &c., of his tongue!].
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