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دول

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

3 داول داول , [inf. n. مُدَاوَلَةٌ,] He made to come round [ by turns, or to be by turns ]: hence the saying in the Kur [iii. 134], و تِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ And those days, we make them to come round [ by turns ] to men: (S, * K, * TA:) or this means, we dispense them by turns to men; (Bd, Jel;) to these one time, and to these another; (Bd;) or one day to one party, and one day to another. (Jel.) You say, دَاوَلْتُ الشَّىْءَ بَيْنَهُمْ ↓ فَتَدَاوَلُوهُ [ I dispensed the thing among them by turns, and they had, or received, or took, it by turns ]. (Bd on the passage of the Kur quoted above.) مُدَاوَلَةٌ also signifies The giving a turn of fortune, or good fortune. (KL. [See what next follows.])

Derived headwords

داولverb
  1. 1.
و تِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا
بَيْنَ النَّاسِ
دَاوَلْتُ الشَّىْءَ بَيْنَهُمْ