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مُعْتَذِلَاتٌ

Root: عذل

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مُعْتَذِلَاتٌ Intensely hot days; as also ; as though they blamed one another; one saying to another, “ I am hotter than thou, and why is not thy heat like my heat? ” or, accord. to IAar, signifies the hot days. And مُعْتَذِلَاتُ سُهَيْلٍ Certain intensely hot days that come before the [auroral] rising of Suheyl [i. e. Canopus], or after it; so called as [though] meaning that they blame one another ( ), and bid one another to be intensely hot or to desist from heat: and also called مُعْتَدِلَات [q. v.], with the unpointed د, as being equal in intensity of heat.
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