طِلْعٌ

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طِلْعٌ a subst. from الاِطِّلَاعُ: [meaning Knowledge:] whence the saying, اِطَّلَعَ طِلْعَ العَدُوِّ [He learned the knowledge of the enemy; meaning he obtained knowledge of the state, or case, or tidings, or of the secret, or of the inward, or intrinsic, or secret, state or circumstances, of the enemy]; [for] طِلْعَ العَدُوِّ means خَبَرَهُ, or سِرَّهُ, or بَاطِنَ أَمْرِهِمْ: and [hence also] one says, أَطْلَعْتُهُ طِلْعَ أَمْرِى, meaning I revealed, or showed, to him my secret.

def.2 Also An elevated place, above what is around it, from which one looks down (يُطَّلَعُ [in the CK erroneously يُطْلَعُ]); as also طَلْعٌ . You say, عَلَوْتُ طِلْعَ الأَكَمَةِ, meaning I ascended upon a part of the hill from which I overlooked what was around it.
2 And i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [A side, or an adjacent tract, or a region, &c.]; as also طَلْعٌ . One says, كُنْ بِطِلْعِ الوَادِى and الوادى [i. e. بِطَلْعِ الوادى also, meaning, as is indicated in the TA, Be thou in the side, &c., of the valley]: and one says also, فُلَانٌ طِلْع الوَادِى, without ب [ Such a one is in the side, &c., of the valley].
3 And Any depressed piece of ground: or such as has in it a hill: [i. e.,] as expl. by As, any depressed piece of ground having in it a hill from which, when you ascend upon it, you see what is in it.

def.3 Also the serpent: like طِلٌّ.

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