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شُلَّةٌ ذ i. q. نِيَّةٌ [app. as meaning The thing, or place, that one proposes to himself as the object of his aim]: (S, O, K:) the place that a company of men have proposed to themselves as the object of their aim or journey: so in the M: (TA:) or the نِيَّة [in the sense thus expl. in the M and TA] in journeying: (T, K:) and thus also ↓ شُلَّى , and likewise in fasting, and in warring: one says, ↓ أَيْنَ شُلَّاهُمْ [Where is the place that they propose to themselves as the object of their aim in journeying, &c.?]. (TA.) ― -b2- And A remote affair (S, O, K) that one seeks; (K;) as also ↓ شَلَّةٌ . (O, K.) -A2- See also شَلَلٌ. -A3- And see شَلِيلٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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