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عَاظِلٌ ذ and [its pls.] عَظْلَى (S, O, K) and عِظَالٌ (marg. note in an autographical copy of the TA) and عُظَالَى, (ISh, TA,) applied to locusts (جَرَادٌ), Cohærentes in coitu. (S, O, K, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] يَوْمُ العُظَالَى A certain day (i. e. conflict) of the Arabs, well known; (S, O, K;) said in the A to be that of Benoo-Temeem, when they went to fight against Bekr Ibn-Wáïl: (TA:) so called because the people bore, or pressed, or crowded, as though mounting, one upon another, (رَكِبَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا, S, O, K,) therein, (S, O,) when they were routed: (TA:) or because they congregated therein as though they were mounting, one upon another: (AHei, TA:) or because two and three of them rode upon one beast (S, O, K, TA) in the rout: thus says As: or because Bistám Ibn-Keys and Háni Ibn-Kabeesah and Maarook Ibn-'Amr and El-Howfazán combined therein for the command. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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