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بلو

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مُبَلِّيَاتُ مبليات Women that stand around a man's riding-camel [ which they bind, or place in a pit, by his grave, to die of hunger and thirst, ] when he has died or been slain, wailing for him. (T, S. *) You say, قَامَتْ مُبَلِّيَاتُ فُلَانٍ يَنُحْنَ عَلَيْهِ [ The women that bound, or placed, the بَلِيَّة by the grave of such a one stood around it wailing for him ]. (T, S.)

Derived headwords

مُبَلِّيَاتُ
  1. 1.
قَامَتْ مُبَلِّيَاتُ فُلَانٍ يَنُحْنَ عَلَيْهِ