تَفْئِيلٌ
Root: فأل
Form: 2
Full Definition
تَفْئِيلٌII
is of the measure تَفْعِيلٌ from الفَأْلُ: [and is app. syn. with
تَفَأُّلٌ, signifying The auguring, &c.; or it may signify the auguring, &c., much: accord. to the TK, فَأَّلَهُ بِهِ means جَعَلَهُ يَتَفَأَّلُ بِهِ
he made him to augur, &c., by it; but this, as is very often the case in the TK, is app. said only on the ground of conjecture: the only ex. that I have found, to show its true meaning, is that which here follows:] Ru-beh says,
[which seems evidently to mean, The auguring, &c., or auguring, &c., much, and the divining, will not have any effect upon us; nor the enemies' noisy reviling or reproaching]: but AA has related it otherwise, substituting التَّأْفِيكُ [lit. the lying] for التفئيل; and has explained it as meaning the enchanting; because it is a turning of a thing from its proper way, or mode.لَا يَأْخُذُ التَّفْئِيلُ وَالتَّحَزِّى فِينَا وَلَا قَذْفُ العِدَى ذُو الأَزِّ
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