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مُذَالٌ ذ ; fem. with ة: see the latter in the next preceding paragraph, in two places. ― -b2- The fem. also means (assumed tropical:) A female slave: (T, S, M:) because she is held in low, or mean, estimation, while she carries herself in an elegant and a proud and selfconceited manner: so in the prov., أَخِيلُ مِنْ مُذَالَةٍ [More proud and self-conceited than a female slave]. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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