عَلَّةٌ
Root: عل
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عَلَّةٌ
A [single] second draught.
2 And hence, A woman's fellow-wife; her husband's wife: or, as some say, a step-mother: but the former is the more correct meaning: pl. عَلَّاتٌ. Whence, بَنُو العَلَّاتِ The sons of one father by different mothers: as though, when he added by marriage a second wife to the first, he took a second draught. أَوْلَادُ الأَخْيَافِ means the contr. of this: and أَوْلَادُ الأَعْيَانِ, the sons of the same father and mother. Accord. to IB, one says, هُمَا أَخَوَانِ مِنْ ضَرَّتَيْنِ [They two are brothers from two fellow-wives]; but they did not say, مِنْ ضَرَّةٍ: and accord. to ISh, one says, هُمْ بَنُو عَلَّةٍ and أَوْلَادُ عَلَّةٍ. And it is said in a trad., الأَنْبِيَآءُ بَنُو عَلَّاتِ, or أَوْلَادُ عَلَّاتٍ, meaning The prophets are of different mothers, but of one religion: or of one faith, but of different religious laws or ordinances.
def.2 See also عُلَالَةٌ.
2 And hence, A woman's fellow-wife; her husband's wife: or, as some say, a step-mother: but the former is the more correct meaning: pl. عَلَّاتٌ. Whence, بَنُو العَلَّاتِ The sons of one father by different mothers: as though, when he added by marriage a second wife to the first, he took a second draught. أَوْلَادُ الأَخْيَافِ means the contr. of this: and أَوْلَادُ الأَعْيَانِ, the sons of the same father and mother. Accord. to IB, one says, هُمَا أَخَوَانِ مِنْ ضَرَّتَيْنِ [They two are brothers from two fellow-wives]; but they did not say, مِنْ ضَرَّةٍ: and accord. to ISh, one says, هُمْ بَنُو عَلَّةٍ and أَوْلَادُ عَلَّةٍ. And it is said in a trad., الأَنْبِيَآءُ بَنُو عَلَّاتِ, or أَوْلَادُ عَلَّاتٍ, meaning The prophets are of different mothers, but of one religion: or of one faith, but of different religious laws or ordinances.
def.2 See also عُلَالَةٌ.
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