نَسَآءٌ
Root: نسأ
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نَسَآءٌ
Length of life.
2 The Fakeeh of the Arabs [El-Hárith Ibn-Keledeh, as said in the Mz, close of 39th نوع, where the following is quoted,] says, مَنْ سَرَّهُ النَّسَآءُ وَلَا نَسَآءَ فَلْيُخَفِّفِ الرِّدَآءَ وَلْيُبَاكِرِ الغَدَآءَ وَلْيُؤَخِّرِ العَشَآءَ وَلْيُقِلَّ غِشْيَانَ النِّسَآءِ [Let him whom length of life rejoiceth lighten his debts, and make his morning-meal early, and delay his evening-meal, and take little enjoyment in women]: الرداء here means debt. (T, M, TA, in art. ردى, where this saying is cited with some variations.)
2 The Fakeeh of the Arabs [El-Hárith Ibn-Keledeh, as said in the Mz, close of 39th نوع, where the following is quoted,] says, مَنْ سَرَّهُ النَّسَآءُ وَلَا نَسَآءَ فَلْيُخَفِّفِ الرِّدَآءَ وَلْيُبَاكِرِ الغَدَآءَ وَلْيُؤَخِّرِ العَشَآءَ وَلْيُقِلَّ غِشْيَانَ النِّسَآءِ [Let him whom length of life rejoiceth lighten his debts, and make his morning-meal early, and delay his evening-meal, and take little enjoyment in women]: الرداء here means debt. (T, M, TA, in art. ردى, where this saying is cited with some variations.)
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