Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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خَزَعْبَلٌ

خَزَعْبَلٌ Stories that are held to be clever, ingenious, or elegant, (IDrd, Ḳ,) and at which one laughs. (IDrd.)


خُزَعْبَلٌ

خُزَعْبَلٌ i. q. بَاطِلٌ [app. as a subst., meaning A false, or vain, saying or deed or affair or thing]; as alsoخُزَعْبِيلٌ↓: (Ḳ:) or, accord. to El-Jarmee, (Ṣ, TA,) the latter, (Ṣ,) or each, (TA,) false, or vain, sayings or deeds or affairs or things. (Ṣ, TA.)


خُزَعْبَلَةٌ

خُزَعْبَلَةٌ or خُزَعْبِلَةٌ (accord. to different copies of the Ḳ) A wonderful thing. (IAạr, Ḳ.) And [the pls.] خُزَعْبِلَاتٌ and خُزَعْبَلَاتٌ False, or vain, stories. (Ḥar p. 16.)


خُزَعْبِيلٌ

خُزَعْبِيلٌ: see خُزَعْبَلٌ.


خُزَعْبِيلَةٌ

خُزَعْبِيلَةٌ A laughable thing; a thing that makes people laugh. (Ṣ, Ḳ) One says, هَاتِ بَعْضَ خُزَعْبِيلَاتِكَ [Give me some of thy laughable thingsor stories]. (Ṣ.)


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