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مُبَتَّلٌ مبتل مبتلي : see بَتيِلٌ. ― -b2- مُبَتَّلَةٌ, applied to a woman, Beautiful, elegant, or pretty; (K;) as though her beauty were divided into portions (↓ بُتِّلَ , i. e. قُطِّعَ,) [and distributed in due proportions] upon her limbs: (M, * K:) or perfect in make, (S,) whose flesh is not accumulated, one portion upon another, (S, M, K,) but distinctly disposed; this latter being said by some to be the meaning: (M:) or, accord. to Lh, (M, TA,) having a lankness, or looseness, in her limbs; (M, K, TA;) not having them compressed, one upon another; (M:) or as though the flesh were cut off from them: (TA:) and in like manner, مُبَتَّلٌ applied to a camel: (M, K:) not applied as an epithet to a man: (S, M, K:) or مُبَتَّلَةُ الخَلْقِ signifies distinct in make from the generality of women; excelling them [therein]: (Aboo-Sa'eed, T, TA:) or perfect in make: or having every part beautiful in itself; not dependent [for its beauty] upon another part: (T:) or beautiful in make; not with one part falling short of another [in beauty]; not being beautiful in the eye and ugly in the nose, nor beautiful in the nose and ugly in the eye; but perfect. (IAar, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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