ضآءل
Root: ضأل
Form: 3
Full Definition
ضآءلIII
, [in the O, and in copies of the K, ضَأَلَ, but the former is the right,] He made his person small, in order that he might not appear. Zuheyr says,
[And while we were driving the wild animals, our young man came, creeping, and hiding his person, and making it small].فَبَيْنَا نَذُودُ الوَحْشَ جَآءَ غُلَامُنَا يَدِبُّ وَيُخْفِى شَخْصَهُ وَيُضَائِلُهْ
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more