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ذَلُولٌ

Root: ذل

Full Definition

ذَلُولٌ Easy, tractable, submissive, or manageable; applied to a beast, such as a horse and the like, (دَابَّة), and to a man [&c.]; and so ذَلُولِىٌّ , applied to a man: (TA, as from the M: [but not found by me in the latter; and I believe that the right reading is ذَلَوْلًى, belonging to art. ذلى, q. v.:]) the former alike masc. and fem.: pl. ذُلُلٌ and أَذِلَّةٌ. A poet applies the epithet ذُلُل to spear-heads, as meaning Made easy [to pierce with] by being sharpened, and made thin and slender.
2 See also the next paragraph, in two places.
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