خَدْلٌ
Root: خدل
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خَدْلٌ
Full [or plump]: and large, big, or bulky: or large, and full [or plump], in the shank and fore arm: or, as some say, large, big, or bulky. TA.) You say اِمْرَأَةٌ خَدْلَةٌ and
خَدِلَةٌ (K, TA, [in the CK, by an omission, the latter is made to be خِدْلَةٌ,]) A woman thick and round in the shank: pl. خِدَالٌ: [in the CK, erroneously, اَخْدَالٌ:] or full of flesh in the limbs, with slenderness of the bones; as also
خَدْلَآءُ and
خِدْلِمٌ : or these two, in the latter of which the م is augmentative, a woman full [or plump] in the shanks and fore arms. And خَدْلَةٌ السَّاقِ A woman round in the shank. And مَخَلْخَلُهَا خَدْلٌ
Her place of the anklet [i. e. her ankle] is large, or big. And سَاقٌ خَدْلَةٌ
A full [or plump] shank: or a round shank: pl. خِدَالٌ.
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