طِحَالٌ
Root: طحل
Full Definition
طِحَالٌ
[The spleen;] one of the intestines, or a piece of flesh, well known, black, or cleaving to the ribs on the left side, and said to pertain to every ruminant except the horse, which has none: it is of the masc. gender: the pl. is طُحُلٌ and أَطْحِلَةٌ and طِحَالَاتٌ. One says of the horse, لَا
طِحَالَ لَهُ [lit. He has no spleen]; which is a metaphor, meaning
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