قَلَّ
Root: قل
Form: 1
Full Definition
قَلَّI
, It was, or became, few; small, or little, in number, quantity, or amount; scanty.
2 هُوَ يَقِلُّ عَنْ كَذَا He, or it, is smaller than, or too small for, such a thing; syn. يَصْغُرُ.
3 قَلَّ لَبَنُهَا Her milk became little, or scanty; she became scant in her milk.
4 قَلَّ خَيْرُهُ [His good things, or wealth, and his beneficence, became few, or little; scanty, or wanting; he became poor; and he became niggardly:] for قِلَّةُ خَيْرٍ signifies “ poverty ” and “ niggardliness. ” (A, TA, in art. حجد.) And It became scanty, or deficient, or wanting, in goodness.
5 قَلَّ He had few aiders: sec an ex. voce فَلَّ.
2 هُوَ يَقِلُّ عَنْ كَذَا He, or it, is smaller than, or too small for, such a thing; syn. يَصْغُرُ.
3 قَلَّ لَبَنُهَا Her milk became little, or scanty; she became scant in her milk.
4 قَلَّ خَيْرُهُ [His good things, or wealth, and his beneficence, became few, or little; scanty, or wanting; he became poor; and he became niggardly:] for قِلَّةُ خَيْرٍ signifies “ poverty ” and “ niggardliness. ” (A, TA, in art. حجد.) And It became scanty, or deficient, or wanting, in goodness.
5 قَلَّ He had few aiders: sec an ex. voce فَلَّ.
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