2.
The feminine also means (assumed tropical:)
A female slave: (T, S, M:) because she is held in low, or mean, estimation, while she carries herself in an elegant and a proud and selfconceited manner: so in the prov.,
أَخِيلُ مِنْ مُذَالَةٍ [
More proud and self-conceited than a female slave]. (
S,
K.)