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3 غَازَلَهَا ذ , (S, MA, TA,) inf. n. مُغَازَلَةٌ, (S, O, K, TA,) He talked with her, (S, O, * K, * TA,) and acted in an amatory and enticing manner with her; (S, TA;) and in like manner one says of a woman with a man: (S:) or he played, or sported, [or dallied, or wantoned,] and held amorous talk, with her. (MA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, أَطْيَبُ مِنْ أَنْفَاسِ الصَّبَا إِِذَا غَازَلَتْ رِيَاضَ الربا (tropical:) [More pleasant, or delightful, than the breaths of the east wind (which is to the Arabs like the zephyr to us) when it has wantoned with the meadows of الربا, (app. الرُّبَا, the name of a place, mentioned in the K in art. ربو, there written الرُّبَى, and in the TA in that art. said to occur in poetry,) so as to have brought with it the odours of flowers]. (K.) And هُوَ يُغَازِلُ رَغَدًا مِنَ العَيْشِ (tropical:) [app. meaning He plays the wanton with ampleness and easiness and pleasantness of the means of subsistence]. (TA.) ― -b3- And غازل الأَرْبَعِينَ (assumed tropical:) He approached [the age of] forty [years]. (Th, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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