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مُعْجِلٌ ذ and ↓ مُعَجِّلٌ and ↓ مِعْجَالٌ A she-camel that brings forth before the completion of the year, and whose young one lives: (K:) or مُعْجِلَةٌ and ↓ مِعْجَالٌ signify the pregnant that brings forth her young before its full time: (O:) or مُعْجِلَةٌ signifies a she-camel that casts her young prematurely: (TA:) and مُعْجِلٌ applied to a بَقَرَة [meaning a cow, either domestic or wild, the latter being a bovine antelope], (S, O, Msb, K,) having a calf, (S, Msb, K,) or having her calf with her. (O.) ― -b2- Also [i. e. the three epithets first mentioned], A she-camel that leaps [up] when the foot is put in her stirrup; as also مُعْجِلَةٌ: (K:) or thus this last word: (O:) or ↓ مِعْجَالٌ is so applied, like مُعْجِلَةٌ; and is in like manner applied to a he-camel; meaning that rises and leaps &c. as above. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, (K,) or ↓ مِعْجَالٌ [only], (TA,) A palm-tree that matures its fruit on the first occasion of its bearing. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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