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فلو

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 أَفْلَوَ see 1, first sentence, in three places. ― -b2- افلت said of a mare, (M, K,) and of a she-ass, (M,) means She was one whose colt had attained to the age for his being weaned, (M, K.) And the phrase قَدْ أَفْلَيْنَ أَمْهَارَا, ending a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, and referring to wild animals, means, as expl. by AHn, that had become in the state in which their young ones were full-grown and in no need of their mothers. (M.) -A2- And افلى القَوْمُ The people, or party, came to the فَلَاة [or desert, &c.]: (S, K: *) or, as Z says, entered it; which is nearly the same as the former explanation. (TA.)

Derived headwords

أَفْلَوَverb
  1. 1.
قَدْ أَفْلَيْنَ أَمْهَارَا
افلى القَوْمُ