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غَلَّةٌ ذ Proceeds, revenue, or income, (Mgh, Msb, K, TA, [in the CK, الدَّخَلَةُ is put for الدَّخْلُ,]) of any kind, (Mgh, Msb,) accruing from the produce, or yield, of land, (Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) or from the rent thereof, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) [in which sense ↓ مَغَلٌّ is also used, as a subst., pl. مُغَلَّاتٌ,] or from seed-produce, and from fruits, and from milk, and from hire, and from the increase of cattle, and the like, (TA,) and from the rent of a house, (K, TA,) and from the hire of a slave, (Mgh, K, TA,) and the like; (Mgh, Msb;) [generally meaning corn, or grain; ??] wheat and barley and rice and the like; (KL;) the غَلَّة of the slave is the payment imposed by the master, and made to him: (TA voce ضَرِيبَةٌ:) pl. غَلَّاتٌ (S, O, Msb, TA) and غِلَالٌ. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- Also Dirhems [or pieces of money] that are clipped (مُقَطَّعَة), in a single piece thereof [the quantity clipped being] a قِيرَاط or a طَسُّوج or a grain; of which it is said in the “ Eedáh, ” that one's lending غَلَّة in order to have such as are free from defect returned to him is disapproved: (Mgh:) or dirhems [or pieces of money] that are rejected by the treasury of the state, but taken by the merchants. (KT. [Freytag has given this latter explanation, but has erroneously assigned it to غُلَّةٌ.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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