Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary (1889)
Entry بخل
بَخِلَ(n. ac. بَخَل) بَخُلَ(n. ac. بُخْل) a. [Bi or 'Ala or 'An], Was niggardly with. بَخَّلَأَبْخَلَa. Accused of niggardliness. تَبَاْخَلَ a. [Bi or 'Ala], Was niggardly to. بُخْل بَخَلa. Avarice, niggardliness, parsimony. بَاْخِلa. see 25 بَخِيْل (pl. بُخَلَآءُ) a. Niggard, miser; stingy, avaricious, penurious.
Habib Anthony Salmoné was a British-educated scholar from Syria. The text for this dictionary was sourced from the Alpheos Project and originally provided by Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.