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4 ادلج أدلج ادلج , (inf. n. إِِدْلَاجٌ, Msb, TA,) He journeyed from the beginning of the night: and ↓ اِدَّلَجَ he journeyed from the latter part of the night: (Th, S, K:) or the former signifies he journeyed all the night: and ↓ the latter, he journeyed in the latter part of the night: (A, Msb, TA:) or the former, he journeyed in the night, at any hour from the beginning to the end thereof: (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán ElAarábee:) or, accord. to El-Fárisee, ↓ both these verbs are syn., and each bears the first and second of the significations given above: IDrst contends against the assertions of those who make a difference between them, and affirms them to be syn., and to signify he journeyed in the night, at any time, in the beginning or middle or end thereof: therefore, he says, their signification is restricted, in several examples, by the context; and hence, he adds, the appellation مُدْلِجٌ given to a hedgehog: (TA:) [agreeably with this explanation,] 'Alee says, “ اِصْبِرْ عَلَى السَّيْرِ وَالإِِدْلَاجِ فِى السَّحَرِ
” [Endure thou with patience travelling, and journeying in the night, in the period a little before daybreak]. (MF.) [See another ex. voce أَصْبَحَ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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