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تذبّل

Root: ذبل

Form: 5

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تذبّلV It became twisted, wreathed, or contorted. One says, تذبّلت النَّاقَةُ بِذَنَبِهَا The she-camel twisted, or contorted, her tail.
2 [It occurs in the K, in art. رأد, said of a branch, or twig, app. as meaning It inclined limberly from side to side: but in the M and L, I there find in its place تذيّل.]
3 تذبّلت She , being thin, or slender, walked in the manner of men: or she walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side.

def.2 Also He threw off [all] his garments, except one.
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