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Root entry · 1 derived lemma4 ابال الخَيْلِ ابال الخيل , and ↓ استبالها, [ He, or it, made, or caused, the horses to stale: or] he stopped the horses for the purpose of [ their ] staling. (TA.) One says, (in threatening, PS,) لَنُبِيلَنَّ الخَيْلَ فِى عرَصَاتِكُمْ [ We will assuredly make the horses to stale in your courts ]. (S.) And it is said in a prov., أَحْمِرَةٌ ↓ بَالَ حِمَارٌ فَا@سْتَبَالَ An ass staled, and caused some ( other ) asses to stale: applied to a case in which people help one another to do what is disagreeable. (Meyd.)
Derived headwords
ابال الخَيْلِverb
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لَنُبِيلَنَّ الخَيْلَ فِى