Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry نفل
2 نَفَّلَهُ
, inf. n. تَنْفِيلٌ, He gave him spoil, (S, Msb, * K,) and a free and disinterested gift. (Msb, K.) And it is doubly trans.: see 2 in art. غنم.
نَفَلٌ Trifolium melilatus indica of Linn.: and medicago intertexta of Linn. (Delile, nos. 706, 730.)
نَفَلٌ: see غَنِيَمَةٌ.
نُفَلٌ
: see تُسَعٌ.
نَافِلَةٌ
: the pl. نَوَافِلُ, is explained in the TA, art. حرز, by زَوَائِدُ [Accessions, or additions].
What accedes to, or exceeds, the original. (T.) A voluntary gift, by way of alms, or as a good work: (T:) a gift: (K:) or a gift عَنْ يَدٍ: (M:) a deed beyond what is incumbent, or obligatory. (M, K.)
نَافِلَةٌ Supererogatory prayer. (S, Msb.) See تَطَوَّعَ.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
