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بَخِيلٌ أخيل بخيل خيل (JK, S, Msb, K) and ↓ بَاخِلٌ (S, Msb, K) Niggardly, tenacious, stingy, penurious, or avaricious; (K;) i. e. ذُو بُخْلٍ; (Msb;) epithets from 1: (S, Msb: *) or one from whom niggardliness is experienced much or often: (TA: [appin explanation of the former:]) and so ↓ بَخَلٌ , in inf. n. used as an epithet [and therefore implying more than the possession of the simple attribute of niggardliness &c., being a kind of personification]; (Abu-l-'Omeythil El-Aarábee, K;) and ↓ بَخَّالٌ (S, K) and ↓ بَخَالٌ (K) and ↓ مُبَخَّلٌ (JK, K) i. e. شَدِيدُ البُخْلِ [very, or vehemently, niggardly &c.]: (S, TA:) pl. of the first, بُخَلَآءُ; (Msb, K;) and of the second, بُخَّلٌ (K) and بُخَّالٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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