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بَجَلٌ بجل جل Calumny, slander, or false accusation: or this is with damm; (K;) i. e. ↓ بُجْلٌ ; (T, TA;) meaning a great calumny &c.; (K, * TA;) and Az thinks that this may be a dial. var. of بُجْرٌ, with which it is syn.; because ل and ر are interchanged in many instances. (TA.) ― -b2- A wonderful thing; syn. عَجَبٌ. (K.) ― -b3- ذُو البَحَلِ denotes dispraise; meaning Content with mean things; not desirous of the means of acquiring eminence: (K:) or content that another should manage affairs in his stead, and that he should be a burden upon others, saying, Sufficient for me (حَسْبِى [or بَجَلِى]) is that [state or condition] wherein I am: (O, TA:) from a saying of Luk- mán Ibn-'Ád; (O, K;) as is also ذُو البَجْلَةِ, which denotes praise. (O, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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