مُعَالَاةٌ
Root: علو
Form: 3
Full Definition
2 See 4, in two places.
3 عُولِىَ, said of clarified butter, and of the fat of anything having fatness, means It was wrought (صُنِعَ [app. over a fire]) until it rose in the operation.
4 عَالَوْا نَعِيَّهُ
5 See 2, in three places.
6 عَالَتِ البَيْقُورَ, occurring in a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abi-s-Salt, is mentioned and explained in the S in this art. and in art. عول: see the latter art. [to which it seems more properly to belong].
7 See 1, former half, in two places.
8 عَالِ عَنِّى Remove thou, or go thou away or aside, from me; as also عَنِّى; for which latter, أَعْلِ عَنِّجْ occurs in a trad. respecting the slaughter of Abu-Jahl; and عَنِّى with the conjunctive ا is a dial. var. of أَعْلِ عَنِّى with the disjunctive ا mentioned by Fr.
9 [Hence,] one says, عَنَّا and عَالِ [i. e. and عَالِ عَنَّا], meaning
10 And عالى and signify He came to the 'Áliyeh of Nejd, i. e. the region above Nejd, extending to the land of Tihámeh and the part behind Mekkeh, i. e. [to] El-Hijáz and what is next to it.
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