فَاضِلَةٌ
Root: فضل
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فَاضِلَةٌ
is a subst. from فَضِيلَةٌ [app. as a concrete term, signifying An excellent thing, or an excel-lent action; each as distinguished from an excel-lent quality]; pl. فَوَاضِلُ: [but generally] it signifies a gift, or thing that is given: or a benefit, or benefaction: or such as is continual, or uninterrupted: pl. as above: [or] فَوَاضِلُ signifies benefits, or benefactions, that are goodly, or pleasing, or such as are great, or large. And فَوَاضِلُ المَالِ signifies What accrues to one of the proceeds and profits of property, of the increase of lands and palm-trees and the like, and the gains of commercial transactions, and the milk and wool of cattle and sheep. The Arabs say, إِذَا عَزَبَ المَالُ قَلَّتْ فَوَاضِلُهُ meaning When the estate is distant, the profits of its owner, accruing therefrom, are small in quantity.
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