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زَعِلٌ ذ Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick; (S, TA;) as also ↓ إِِزْعِيلٌ : (K:) the former is applied in this sense to a horse; and ↓ the latter, as well as the former, to an ass, [i. e. a wild ass,] as meaning brisk, lively, &c., and curvetting, prancing, leaping, springing, or bounding: and the former signifies also exulting, or exulting greatly, or excessively, and behaving insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully: pl. زُعَّلٌ, applied by Tarafeh to male ostriches. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Writhing, or crying out and writhing, by reason of hunger. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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