Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طِلْعٌ ذ (tropical:) a subst. from الاِطِّلَاعُ: [meaning Knowledge:] whence the saying, اِطَّلَعَ طِلْعَ العَدُوِّ (tropical:) [He learned the knowledge of the enemy; meaning he obtained knowledge of the state, or case, or tidings, or of the secret, or of the inward, or intrinsic, or secret, state or circumstances, of the enemy]; (S, O, K, TA;) [for] طِلْعَ العَدُوِّ means خَبَرَهُ, (Msb,) or سِرَّهُ, (PS,) or بَاطِنَ أَمْرِهِمْ: (Har p. 82:) and [hence also] one says, أَطْلَعْتُهُ طِلْعَ أَمْرِى, meaning (tropical:) I revealed, or showed, to him my secret. (O, K, TA.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) An elevated place, above what is around it, from which one looks down (يُطَّلَعُ [in the CK erroneously يُطْلَعُ]); as also ↓ طَلْعٌ . (K, TA.) You say, عَلَوْتُ طِلْعَ الأَكَمَةِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) I ascended upon a part of the hill from which I overlooked what was around it. (IDrd, O, TA.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [A side, or an adjacent tract, or a region, &c.]; as also ↓ طَلْعٌ . (K.) One says, كُنْ بِطِلْعِ الوَادِى and ↓ طَلْعِ الوادى [i. e. بِطَلْعِ الوادى also, meaning, as is indicated in the TA, (assumed tropical:) Be thou in the side, &c., of the valley]: (S, O:) and one says also, فُلَانٌ طِلْع الوَادِى, without ب [(assumed tropical:) Such a one is in the side, &c., of the valley]. (O.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) Any depressed piece of ground: or such as has in it a hill: (K:) [i. e.,] as expl. by As, any depressed piece of ground having in it a hill from which, when you ascend upon it, you see what is in it. (O.) -A3- Also the serpent: (AA, O, K:) like طِلٌّ. (TA.)