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بَتُولٌ بتول تولي A shoot, or an offset, of a palm-tree, cut off from its mother-tree, and independent thereof; as also ↓ بَتِيلَةٌ , (As, T, S, M, K,) and ↓ بَتِيلٌ . (M, K.) ― -b2- A virgin, that is cut off from husbands: (S:) a woman that withholds herself from men, (T,) or that is cut off from men, (M, K,) having no desire for them, (T, M, TA,) nor need of them; (T;) and, with the art. ال, applied to the Virgin Mary; (M, K;) as also ↓ بَتِيلٌ : (M, K:) with the art. ال, it is applied also to Fátimeh, the daughter of Mohammad, because she was separated from the [other] women of her age and nation by chasteness and excel-lence and religion and [other] grounds of pretension to respect: (Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà, T, K: *) or it signifies, (S,) or signifies also, (K,) a woman detached from worldly things, and devoted to God; (S, K;) as also ↓ بَتِيلٌ and ↓ بَتِيلَةٌ . (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.)

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