دَخَلٌ
Root: دخل
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دَخَلٌ
primarily signifies A thing that enters into another thing and is not of it. See دَخْلٌ, in three places. Also Badness, corruptness, or unsoundness; or a bad, a corrupt, or an unsound, state or quality; (S in art. دغل, and K;) in intellect or in body [&c.]. You say, فِى عَقْلِهِ دَخَلٌ [In his intellect is an unsoundness]. And هٰذَاالأَمْرُ فِيهِ دَخَلٌ and دَغَلٌ [This affair, or case, in it is an unsoundness]: both signify the same.
2 Rottenness in a palm-tree.
3 Leanness, or emaciation.
4 Perfidiousness, faithlessness, or treachery: deceit, guile, or circumvention. Hence, in the Kur [xvi. 96], وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوا أَيْمَانَكُمْ دَخَلًا بَيْنَكُمْ [And make ye not your oaths to be a means of] deceit, or guile, or circumvention, between you.
def.2 Also People, or persons, who assert their relationship to those of whom they are not: in this sense thought by ISd to be a quasi-pl. n. [app. of دَخِيلٌ , like as شَرَفٌ is of شَرِيفٌ]. You say, هُمْ دَخَلٌ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ They are, among the sons of such a one, persons who assert their relationship to them not being of them. [But Freytag asserts, though without naming any authority, evidently taking it from the TK, in which I find it, that one says, هم دخل لهم, and also هو; thus applying it to a single person as well as to a plurality.]
2 And Tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees; as also دَغَلٌ.
2 Rottenness in a palm-tree.
3 Leanness, or emaciation.
4 Perfidiousness, faithlessness, or treachery: deceit, guile, or circumvention. Hence, in the Kur [xvi. 96], وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوا أَيْمَانَكُمْ دَخَلًا بَيْنَكُمْ [And make ye not your oaths to be a means of] deceit, or guile, or circumvention, between you.
def.2 Also People, or persons, who assert their relationship to those of whom they are not: in this sense thought by ISd to be a quasi-pl. n. [app. of دَخِيلٌ , like as شَرَفٌ is of شَرِيفٌ]. You say, هُمْ دَخَلٌ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ They are, among the sons of such a one, persons who assert their relationship to them not being of them. [But Freytag asserts, though without naming any authority, evidently taking it from the TK, in which I find it, that one says, هم دخل لهم, and also هو; thus applying it to a single person as well as to a plurality.]
2 And Tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees; as also دَغَلٌ.
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