عضل

عُضَالٌ ذ , applied to a disease, (S, O, Msb, K,) Severe, or distressing, (S, O, Msb,) that wearies the physicians; (S, O;) as also ↓ عَضِلٌ and ↓ عَضِيلٌ: (O:) or wearing and overcoming: (K:) or, so applied, hateful, that attacks suddenly, and is not slow to kill; the treatment of which wearies the physicians: (Sh, TA:) or that frustrates the ability of the physicians, there being no cure for it. (IAth, TA.) And in like manner it is applied to an affair [as meaning That wearies him who would perform it ]: (S, O:) or meaning hard, or difficult, which one will not undertake, or [ be able to ] manage; and in like manner ↓ مُعَضِّلٌ [or ↓ مُعْضِلٌ]: or, as some say, the affair [that is hard, or difficult,] is termed عُضَالٌ in its first state; and معضل [i. e. ↓ مُعَضِّلٌ or ↓ مُعْضِلٌ] when it is obligatory. (TA.) And حَلْفَةٌ عُضَالٌ means A hard, or severe, oath, in which is no exception: (K:) or, accord. to IAar, in the phrase حَلَفْتُ عُضَالًا, the latter word signifies a wonderful calamity; and the phrase means I swore an oath that was a severe calamity. (TA.)