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تَضَآءَلَ

Root: ضأل

Form: 6

Full Definition

تَضَآءَلَVI : see 1. In a verse of Aboo-Khirásh, تَضَالَ لَهَا جِسْمِى [meaning My body became lean, or spare, by reason of it,] occurs for تَضَآءَلَ: or, as AA relates it, he said تَضَأءَل لَّهَا, with idghám.
2 Also He became small, or thin; he shrank, or became contracted; by reason of abasement, or from fear: he hid his person, sitting, and shrank, or became contracted. And It shrank, became contracted, or drew itself together. AHn has used it [in this sense] in relation to a herb, or leguminous plant.
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