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3 داحلهُ داحله داحلة , (T, K,) inf. n. مُدَاحَلَةٌ, (TA,) He strove, or endeavoured, or desired, to deceive, delude, beguile, circumvent, or outwit, him. (T, K.) ― -b2- He acted with him in a niggardly, a tenacious, or an avaricious, manner; syn. مَاكَسَهُ. (K.) [See دَحِلٌ.] ― -b3- He concealed from him what he knew, and told him some other thing. (Sh, K.) ― -b4- دِحَالٌ [an inf. n. of the same verb] signifies The act of refraining, abstaining, or holding back; syn. اِمْتِنَاعٌ; (As, K;) as though striving to deceive, delude, beguile, circumvent, or outwit; and disobeying: not from دَحْلٌ signifying “ a subterranean cavity. ” (As, TA.) And The act of declining on one side. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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