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مول

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مَالٌ ذ Whatever one possesses: (K:) property; wealth: ] accord. to Mohammad [the Hanafee Imám), whatever men possess, of dirhems, or deenárs, or gold, or silver, or wheat, or barley, or bread, or beasts, or garments or pieces of cloth, or weapons, or other things: (Mgh:) [ property, or wealth: ] or originally what one possesses of gold and silver: then applied to anything that one acquires and possesses of substantial things: and mostly applied by the Arabs to camels, because these constitute most of their wealth: (IAth, TA:) and animals. (TA.) ― -b2- مَالٌ Camels or sheep or goats. (S.) The مال of the people of the desert consists of what are termed نَعَمٌ, (T, Msb,) i. e. Cattle, consisting of camels or neat or sheep or goats, or all these, or camels alone; (Msb in art. نعم;) herds, or flocks, or herds and flocks. ― -b3- مَالٌ A square in arithmetic: pl. أَمْوَالٌ. See جَذْرٌ. ― -b4- رَجُلٌ مَالٌ, for ذُومَالٍ. (L, art. صيد.)

Derived headwords

مَالٌ
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رَجُلٌ مَالٌ