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6 تَضَآءَلَ ذ : see 1. In a verse of Aboo-Khirásh, تَضَالَ لَهَا جِسْمِى [meaning My body became lean, or spare, by reason of it,] occurs for تَضَآءَلَ: or, as AA relates it, he said تَضَأءَل لَّهَا, with idghám. (M.) ― -b2- Also He became small, or thin; he shrank, or became contracted; (O, * TA, and Ham * pp. 653 and 658;) by reason of abasement, (TA,) or from fear: (Ham p. 658:) he hid his person, sitting, and shrank, or became contracted. (M, K, TA.) And It (a thing) shrank, became contracted, or drew itself together. (TA.) AHn has used it [in this sense] in relation to a herb, or leguminous plant. (M, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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