[1]
ضَلَلْتُ , (S, Mgh, * O, Msb, * K,) third pers.
ضَلَّ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor.
ضَلِ3َ , (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,)
inf. n.
ضَلَالٌ and
ضَلَالَةٌ; (S, * O, * Msb;) and
ضَلِلْتُ, (S, Mgh, * O, Msb, * K,) third pers. as
above; (Mgh;) the former of the dial. of Nejd,
and the more chaste; the latter of the dial. of the
people of El-'Áliyeh, (S, Msb, TA,) and of El-
Hijáz, and Kr has mentioned
ضِلِلْتُ for
ضَلِلْتُ as
heard from the tribe of Temeem; (TA;)
I erred,
strayed, or
went astray; (Mgh, Msb;)
deviated
from the right way or
course, or
from that which
was right; missed, or
lost, the right way; or
lost
my way; ضَلَالٌ and
ضَلَالَةٌ signifying the
contr.
of رَشَادٌ, (S, O, TA,) and
هُدًى. (K, TA.) [See
ضَلَالٌ below.] Hence, in the Kur [xxxiv. 49],
قُلْ إِنْ ضَلَلْتُ فِإِنَّمَا أَضِلُّ عَلَى نَفْسِى [
Say thou, If
I err, I shall err only against myself, i. e., to my
own hurt]. (O, Msb. [See also x. 108 and xvii.
16 of the Kur.]) One says also,
ضَلَّ ضَلَالُهُ [app.
His error became error indeed; a phrase similar
to
جَدَّ جِدُّهُ, q. v.: or
his erring passed away;
see 4, latter part]. (TA.) And
ضَلَّ عَنِ القَصْدِ
He deviated from the right way or
course. (TA.)
And the verb is trans. as well as intrans.: you
say,
ضَلَّ الطَّرِيقَ, and
ضَلَّ عَنْهُ, aor.
ضَلِ3َ and
ضَلَ3َ ,
(Mgh, Msb,) inf. ns. as above, meaning
He erred,
strayed, or
went astray, from the road, or
way;
(Msb;)
he did not find the way to the road:
(Mgh, Msb:) and of anything stationary, if you
miss the place thereof, you say
ضَلَلْتُهُ and
ضَلِلْتُهُ:
(Az, Msb:) or you say,
ضَلِلْتُ الطَّرِيقَ, (K,) or
ضَلِلْتُ المَسْجِدَ, and
الدَّارَ, (ISk, S, O,) [
I missed,
or
lost, the right way to the road, or
the mosque,
and
the house,] when you know not the place
thereof: (ISk, S, O:) and in like manner, anything stationary, to which one does not find the
way: (ISk, S, O, K:) and AA says the like:
but that one says of a thing that falls from his
hand, and a thing that quits its place, ↓
أَضْلَلْتُهُ,
(IB, TA,) which means
I lost it, and knew not
its place; meaning, for instance, a horse, or she-camel, or the like: (Az, Msb:) [thus] one says,
أَضْلَلْتُ بِعِيرِى [
I lost my camel, and knew not
his place,] (AA, ISk, S, IB, O) when his shank
has been tied up to his arm and one does not find
the way to him, and when he has been left loose
and has gone away whither one knows not: (AA,
IB, TA:) but Yoo differs from others respecting
this case; for, accord. to him, one says,
اضلّ
فُلَانٌ بَعِيرَهُ and also
ضَلَّهُ, in the same sense; (O,
TA;) and the like is said in the K: (TA:) and
it is also said in the Bári' that when you seek an
animal and miss its place and find not the way to
it, it is regarded as in the category of stationary
things, and therefore you say
ضَلِلْتُهُ. (Msb.) ―
2-b2-
ضَلَّ signifies also
He was, or
became, confounded,
or
perplexed, and unable to see his right course.
(Ibn-Es-Seed, TA.) ―
2-b3- Also, aor.
ضَلِ3َ (S, O, K) and
ضَلَ3َ , (K,) the pret. being like
زَلَّ and
مَلَّ, (TA,)
inf. n.
ضَلَال,
It (a thing, S, O, TA)
became lost;
[as though it went astray;]
it perished, came to
nought, or
passed away. (S, O, K, TA.) Thus in
the phrase
ضَلَّ عَنِّى كَذَا Such a thing became
lost from me. (Mgh.) One says to him from whom
pieces of money have dropped,
قَدْ ضَلَّتْ عَنْكَ
[
They have become lost from thee]. (TA.) And to
him who has done a deed from which no profit
has resulted, you say,
قَد ضَلَّ سَعْيُكَ (tropical:) [
Thy labour
has been lost]: the like occurs in the Kur xviii. 104,
meaning
ضَاعَ. (TA, in two places.) ―
2-b4- And (tropical:)
He
(a man, TA)
died, and became dust and bones.
(K, TA.) In this sense the verb is used in the
Kur xxxii. 9: but some there read, in the place
of
ضَلَلْنَا,
صَلِلْنَا [q. v.], with
ص: (TA:) or the
verb in that instance has the meaning here next
following. (S.) ―
2-b5- And (assumed tropical:)
He, or
it, (a man, S,
TA, or a camel, Msb, and a thing, TA,)
was, or
became, unperceived or
imperceptible, unapparent,
latent, hidden or
concealed, or
absent, (S, Msb,
K, TA.) Hence the phrase,
ضَلَّ المَآءُ فِى اللَّبَنِ
(tropical:) [
The water became unperceived, or
concealed, in
the milk]. (TA.) One says of a road to which
he has not been able to find the way,
ضَلَّ عَنِّى
[
It has become hidden from me]. (K, TA.) And
hence also the saying of a man, as is related in a
trad., (S, O, TA,) after his having charged his
sons by saying to them, “ When I die, burn ye
me; and when I shall have become ashes, pound
me; then scatter me in the water: ” (O, TA:)
لَعَلِّى أَضِلُّ ٱللّٰه (S, O, TA) i. e. (assumed tropical:)
May-be, I shall
be unperceived by God, or
concealed from Him:
(S:) or
may-be, I shall be hidden, or
absent, from
God's punishment: (O, TA:) or, as El-'Otbee
says,
may-be, I shall escape God, and my place
will be hidden from Him. (TA.) And
ضَلَّ said
of one forgetting means (assumed tropical:)
His memory became
absent from him. (O, Msb, TA.)
أَنْ تَضِلَّ إِحْدَاهُمَا,
or
إِنْ تَضِلَّ, in the Kur [ii. 282], accord. to different readers, (TA,) in which instance
أَنْ and
إِنْ
are syn., (Mughnee, [see
أَنْ, in p. 106, cols. 1
and 2,]) means
If one of them twain [referring to
women]
be absent from her memory: or
if the
memory of one of them twain be absent from her:
[or
if one of them twain err in her memory:] or,
accord. to Zj, the meaning of the verb in this case
is that which next follows. (TA.) ―
2-b6-
ضَلِلْتُ
الشَّىْءَ also signifies (assumed tropical:)
I forgot the thing: whence
one says of a woman,
ضَلَّتْ أَيَّامَ حَيْضِهَا (assumed tropical:) [
She
forgot the days of her menstruation]; and so
↓
أَضَلَّتْهَا: (Mgh:) or
ضَلَّ فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:)
He was made,
or
caused, to forget such a one. (K. [In the CK,
اُنْسِيْهِ is erroneously put for
أُنْسِيَهُ.]) It is said
that
لَا يَضِلُّ رَبِّى, in the Kur xx. 54, means (assumed tropical:)
My
Lord will not be unmindful: or
nothing will escape
Him. (TA.) ―
2-b7- And one says,
ضَلَّنِى فُلَانٌ, (Msb,
K,) or
ضَلَّنِى فُلَانٌ فَلَمْ أَقْدَرْ عَلَيْهِ, (O,) meaning
Such a one went away from me, (O, Msb, K,)
and I was unable to compass him [or
to find him]:
so in the Bári'. (Msb.) ＝
1-A2-
ضُلَّ, as a verb of
wonder: see
ضُلٌّ.