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8 اغتالهُ ذ He did evil to him without his knowing whence it came so that he might prepare himself. (TA.) It is said in a trad., أَعُوذُ بِكَ أَنْ أُغْتَالَ مِنْ تَحْتِى i. e. [I seek protection by Thee from] my being the object of an event's befalling me whence I shall not know; meaning thereby the sinking [into the ground] and being swallowed up. (TA.) الاِغْتِيَالُ and الغِيلَةُ are syn. in a sense expl. below. (S, O, K.) See the latter word below: and see also 8 in art. غول. One says, اُغْتِيلَ, meaning He was deceived, and taken to a place, and [there] slain. (TA.) -A2- اغتال said of a boy, He became thick and fat. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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