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غفّلهُ

Root: غفل

Form: 2

Full Definition

غفّلهُII , Verbal.Noun تَغْفِيلٌ, He made him to become unmindful, forgetful, neglectful, heedless, or inadvertent.
2 See also 4.
3 التَّغْفِيلُ signifies [also] The sufficing one's companion [in respect of an affair] when he who is the object thereof is unmindful, unoccupied [in mind, or actually,] by anything. [You say, غفّل صَاحِبَهُ meaning He sufficed his companion in respect of an affair when he was unmindful, &c.]

def.2 And غفّلهُ, Verbal.Noun as above, He concealed it, namely, a thing.
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