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علق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

3 عَاْلَقَ ↓ عَالَقْتُ فُلَانًا فَعَلَقْتُهُ I vied with such a one, or contended with him for superiority, in precious things (أَعْلَاق, pl. of عِلْق), and I surpassed him, or was better than he, in respect of a precious thing. (TA.) And عَالَقْتُهُ بِعِلْقِى وَعِلْقِهِ I laid a bet, or wager, with him with precious articles of property [or, I with my precious thing and he with his precious thing ]. (Ham p. 101, but without the vowel-signs.)

Derived headwords

عَاْلَقَverb
  1. 1.
عَالَقْتُهُ بِعِلْقِى وَعِلْقِهِ