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دُخْلُلٌ

Root: دخل

Full Definition

دُخْلُلٌ A companion, [such as is] a confidant, and special friend; as also دَخِيلٌ and دَخِيلَةٌ [app. for صَاحِبُ دَخِيلَةٍ] (K * and TA voce وَلِيجَةٌ) and دِخْلَةٌ [app. for صَاحِبُ دِخْلَة]: (L voce وَلِيجَةٌ:) [the pl.] دُخْلُلُونَ signifies special, or particular, and choice, or select, friends: or دُخْلُلٌ signifies, as also دِخْلَلٌ and دَخِيلٌ and مُدَاخِلٌ , one who enters with another into the affairs of the latter: [i. e.] الرَّجُلِ and دُخْلُلُهُ signify the man's particular, or special, intimate, who enters with him into his affairs. You say, بَيْنَهُمَا دُخْلُلٌ and دِخْلَلٌ , meaning Between them two is a particular, or special, intimate, who enters with them into their affairs: so says Lh: but ISd says, I know not what it is: accord. to the T, on the authority of AO, the meaning is, between them is brotherhood, or fraternization, and love, or affection: and accord. to ISd and the K, دُخْلَلٌ الحُبِّ and دُخْلُلُهُ [the latter not in the CK nor in my MS. copy of the K] and signify purity of inward love.
2 دُخْلُلُونَ signifies also Persons of the lower, or lowest, sort, who enter among a people, or party, of whom they are not: thus having two contr. meanings.
3 الدخلل [app. الدُّخْلُلُ] and الدُّخَّالُ [thus in the TA] and , accord. to IAar, all signify The same as الأُذُنِ [an appellation now applied to the ear-wig; in the K, art. عقرب, said to be the عُقْرُبَان, but not as meaning the عَقْرَب or the male عَقْرَب]: accord. to AZ, it is the هرنصان [i. e. هِرْنِصَان or هِرِنْصَان, a kind of worm, the species of which is doubtful].
4 See also دِخَّلٌ.

def.2 And see دُخْلَةٌ.
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