dhāl

dhal (Arabic letter)

ذال

Word

Noun

Root

ذ و ل

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"ذرْوةُ الجَبلِ": أعْلاهُ، وَهي بكَسْر الذَّال المعْجمَة وَضَمِّهَا و"القُرْقورُ"بضَمِّ القَافَيْن: نوْعٌ منْ السُّفُن وَ"الصَّعِيدُ"هُنا: الأرضُ البارزَةُ وَ"الأخْدُودُ": الشُّقوقُ في الأرْضِ كالنَّهْرِ الصَّغيرِو"أُضرِمَ"أوقدَ"وانكفَأَت"أَي: انقلبَتْ وَ"تقاعسَت"توقَّفتْ وجبُنتْ.

Riyad al-Salihin, page 24 →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries

ذَوَّلْتُ ذَالًا Form II I wrote a ذ

I wrote a ذ; (Az, Sgh, K;) or ذَالًا حَسَنَةٌ [a beautiful ذ]. (B, TA.) [See also 2 in art. ذيل.]
ذَالٌ A certain letter of the alphabet

A certain letter of the alphabet, (Lth, ISd, K,) [ذ,] pronounced with the voice, [not with the breath only,] and always a radical, not a substitute for another letter, nor augmentative; (ISd, TA;) its place of utterance is at the roots of the teeth, near the place of utterance of ت [or ث]; and it may be masc. and fem.; (B, TA;) [but generally it is fem.; and therefore] the dim. is ↓ ذُوَيْلَةٌ: (K:) the pl. is أَذْوَالٌ and ذَالَاتٌ. (TA.) -A2- Also The comb of a cock. (Kh, TA.)
ذَوِيلٌ dry

, explained by IDrd as signifying What is dry, of plants &c., and so in the K, is said by ISd to be correctly دَوِيلٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)
ذُوَيْلَةٌ Open entry

: see ذَالٌ, above.

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