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مُذَالٌ

Root: ذيل

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مُذَالٌ ; fem. with ة: see the latter in the next preceding paragraph, in two places.
2 The fem. also means A female slave: because she is held in low, or mean, estimation, while she carries herself in an elegant and a proud and selfconceited manner: so in the prov., أَخِيلُ مِنْ مُذَالَةٍ [More proud and self-conceited than a female slave].
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