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غفل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 غفّلهُ ذ , inf. n. تَغْفِيلٌ, He made him to become unmindful, forgetful, neglectful, heedless, or inadvertent. (Msb.) ― -b2- See also 4. ― -b3- التَّغْفِيلُ signifies [also] The sufficing one's companion [ in respect of an affair ] when he who is the object thereof is unmindful, unoccupied [ in mind, or actually, ] by anything. (ISk, K, TA.) [You say, غفّل صَاحِبَهُ meaning He sufficed his companion in respect of an affair when he (the latter) was unmindful, &c.] -A2- And غفّلهُ, (Mgh, O, K, but in my copy of the Mgh written without tesh-deed,) inf. n. as above, (O, K,) He concealed it, (Mgh, O, K,) namely, a thing. (Mgh, O.)

Derived headwords

غفّلهُverb
  1. 1.
غفّل صَاحِبَهُ