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تأجّل

Root: اجل

Form: 5

Full Definition

تأجّلV i. q. ; i. e. He asked, or requested, that a term, or period, should be assigned, appointed, or specified, for him. It is said in a trad. of Mek-hool, كُنَّا مَرَابِطِينَ بِا لسَّاحِلِ فَتَأَجَّلَ مُتَأَجِّلٌ [We were keeping post on the frontier of the enemy, in the tract on the sea-coast, and] a person asked, or requested, that a term, or period, should be assigned, or appointed, or specified, for him, and that permission should be granted him to return to his family.
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