Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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ذوق ذول ذون


2. ⇒ ذوّل

ذَوَّلْتُ ذَالًا I wrote a ذ; (Az, Ṣgh, Ḳ;) or ذَالًا حَسَنَةٌ [a beautiful ذ]. (B, TA.) [See also 2 in art. ذيل.]


ذَالٌ

ذَالٌ A certain letter of the alphabet, (Lth, ISd, Ḳ,) [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↓: (Ḳ:) the pl. is أَذْوَالٌ and ذَالَاتٌ. (TA.)

Root: ذول - Entry: ذَالٌ Dissociation: B

Also The comb of a cock. (Kh, TA.)


ذَوِيلٌ

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


ذُوَيْلَةٌ

ذُوَيْلَةٌ: see ذَالٌ, above.


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