Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَالَلْتُ

Root: عل

Form: 3

Full Definition

عَالَلْتُIII I milked the she-camel in the morning and the evening and the middle of the day: in the K, erroneously, عَالَّتِ النَّاقَةُ [as meaning the she-camel was milked at those times]: and the subst. is عِلَالٌ : Lh cites this verse, of an Arab of the desert, اَلْعَنْزُ تَعْلَمُ أَنِّى لَا أُكَرِّمُهَا عَنِ العِلَالِ وَلَا عَنْ قِدْرِ أَضْيَافِى [The she-goat knows that I will not preserve her from the milking in the morning and the evening and the middle of the day nor from the cookingpot of my guests]: or, accord. to Az, عِلَالٌ signifies the milking after milking, before the udder requires it by the abundance of the milk. [See also 6.]


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