ضَآلّ

DaAl~N * Erring, straying, or going astray; deviating from the right way or course, or from that which is right; missing, or losing, the right way; or losing his way; (S, * Msb, TA;) and ↓ DaluwlN is syn. therewith; (K;) [or rather with Dil~iylN , accord. to a general rule:] pl. of the former Dul~aAlN , [of which see an ex. in a verse cited voce risolN ,] and DuAl~uwna : [in the Kur i. last verse,] some read walaA A@lD~aA^al~iyna , to avoid the concurrence of two quiescent letters. (TA.) You say DaAl~N taAl~N ; (S, O;) in which the latter epithet is an imitative sequent. (S and K in art. tl .) ― -b2- [Also Becoming lost; &c. ― -b3- And Forgetting. It is said that] waA^anaA mina A@lD~aAl~iyna [in the Kur xxvi. 19] means (assumed tropical:) I being of those that forgot. (K, TA.) And AimraA^apN DaAl~apN means (assumed tropical:) A woman forgetting the days of her menstruation. (Mgh.)

DaAlN * The wild [ species of lote-tree called ] sidor [q. v.]: (S, O, K:) or such of the sidor as are watered only by the rain; (M, K:) the sidor of the mountains, which is thinner in its wood than that of the rivers: AHn says, it grows in the plain, or soft, tracts, and in the rugged; and the bow that is made of it, when it is pared, is pared so as to be thick, in order that it may be stronger, because of the lightness of its wood: (M:) n. un. with p . (S, M, O, K.) [See also EuboriY~N , and EumoriY~N .] ― -b2- Also Another species of tree; (M, K;) AHn says, it is a tree of the shrub-kind, found in the borders of El-Yemen, rising to the height of a cubit, in its manner of growth like the cypress, and having a yellow [ fruit of the sort called a ] baramap , of a very pungent odour, so that its odour comes to you before you reach it: it is not of the sidor thus called. (M.)