دَبِيلٌ
Root: دبل
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دَبِيلٌ
دِبْلٌ and
دِبْلٌ are intensive expressions meaning A severe, or heavy, calamity or misfortune: (K, * TA: [in the CK, دَبْلٌ, which is said in the TA to be incorrect:]) or a severe, or heavy, bereavement. And one says, sometimes, دَبِيلًا and
in the accus. case as an imprecation [meaning May God send upon such a one a severe, or heavy, calamity or bereavement]. As used to say ذبل ذابل, meaning “ [deep] abasement or ignominy: ” and Aboo-' Amr Esh-Sheybanee, ذبلًا ذبيلًا: others pronounced with د.
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