زَعِلٌ
Root: زعل
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زَعِلٌ
Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick; as also
إِزْعِيلٌ : the former is applied in this sense to a horse; and ↓ the latter, as well as the former, to an ass, [i. e. a wild ass,] as meaning brisk, lively, &c., and curvetting, prancing, leaping, springing, or bounding: and the former signifies also exulting, or exulting greatly, or excessively, and behaving insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully: pl. زُعَّلٌ, applied by Tarafeh to male ostriches.
2 Also Writhing, or crying out and writhing, by reason of hunger.
2 Also Writhing, or crying out and writhing, by reason of hunger.
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