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طَلِيلٌ

Root: طل

Full Definition

طَلِيلٌ : see مَطْلُولٌ.

def.2 Also Sweet; syn. حُلْوٌ: (so accord. to the O and some copies of the K: accord. to other copies of the K, i. q. خِلق; i. e., accord. to some of these copies, خَلْقٌ; accord. to some, خَلَقٌ; and accord. to some, خَلِقٌ:) thus expl. by Ibn-'Abbád; and said by him to be of the dial. of Hudheyl. [The explanation in the O is, I doubt not, the right: and hence]
2 طَلِيلَةٌ applied to a خُطْبَة: see طَلٌّ, latter part.

def.3 Also A mat; syn. حَصِيرٌ: or such as is woven of [the leaves of the] دَوْم [or Theban palm-tree]; or of the leaves of the date-palm; or of the قُشُور [app. meaning the peels of the branches] thereof: so in the M: in the T it is said that طَلِيلَةٌ means, accord. to AA, a [mat of the kind called] بُورِيَآء; and accord. to As, a بَارِىّ [which signifies the same as بوريآ]: pl. أَطِلَّةٌ and طِلَّةٌ and طُلُلٌ.
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