مُبَلِّيَاتُ
Root: بلو
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مُبَلِّيَاتُ
Women that stand around a man's riding-camel [which they bind, or place in a pit, by his grave, to die of hunger and thirst,] when he has died or been slain, wailing for him. You say, قَامَتْ مُبَلِّيَاتُ فُلَانٍ يَنُحْنَ عَلَيْهِ [The women that bound, or placed, the
بَلِيَّة
by the grave of such a one stood around it wailing for him].
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