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طِلْوٌ ذ The wolf. (K.) ― -b2- And A hunter, or pursuer of wild animals or the like, slender in body: (Aboo-Sa'eed, K, TA: [in the CK, القابِضُ is erroneously put for القَانِصُ:]) said to be [so called as being] likened to the wolf. (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA.) Et-Tirimmáh says, “ صَادَفَتْ طِلْواً طَوِيلَ الطَّوَى
حَافِظَ العَيْنِ قَلِيلَ السَّآمْ
” [She, or they, (app. referring to one or more of the objects of the chase,) encountered a hunter slender in body, a long endurer of hunger, one whom sleep did not overcome, little, or seldom, subject to disgust]. (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA.) -A2- See also طِلَآءٌ, last sentence.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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