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خُضُلَّةٌ خضل خضله خضلة A plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft or delicate, state of life. (K, TA. [In the CK, النِّعْمَةُ is erroneously put for النَّعْمَةُ.]) You say, هُمْ فِى خُضُلَّةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ They are in a plentiful, and a pleasant or an easy, and a soft or delicate, state of life. (TA.) And يَوْمُ خُضُلَّةٍ A day of plenty, and pleasure or ease, and softness or delicacy; (JK, K;) or a day of plenty; or of abundance of herbage, or of the goods or conveniences or comforts of life; and of pleasantness and easiness of life. (S, TA.) And نَزَلْنَا فِى خُضُلَّةٍ مِنَ العُشْبِ We alighted among green, soft or tender, fresh herbage. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A wife: (K:) or a name for a woman: (K, * TA:) and a soft, or tender, woman. (JK, K.) ― -b3- And The rainbow. (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, K.) And A halo round the moon. (AA, TA.) ― -b4- One says also, دَعْنِى مِنْ خُضُلَّاتِكَ, meaning Let me alone, and cease from thy vain, or false, sayings or actions. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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