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زَائِلٌ

Root: زول

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زَائِلٌ [Going away; passing away; departing; transient; shifting; becoming remote, or absent; ceasing to be or exist; nonexistent: &c.: part. n. of زَالَ, q. v.].
2 [Hence,] لَيْلٌ زَائِلُ النُّجُومِ [properly A starless night, or night of which the stars are absent: but expl. as meaning] a long night.
3 زَالَ زَائِلُ الظِّلِّ: see 1.
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