افضل فِى تِجَارَتِهِ

He gained; or made gain, or profit; in his traffic; synonym رَبِحَ. (Az and Msb in article ربح.)

عَنْهُ [and عَنْهُ ↓ فَضَلَ, aorist فَضُلَ , verbal noun فَضْلٌ, (see فَضْلٌ below, last signification, and see also فَاضِلٌ,)] It exceeded it. (K, TA. [See also 1, latter half.]) Ows says, describing a bow,

كَقَوْسٍ طِلَاعِ الكَفِّ لَا دُونَ مِلْيءِهَا

وَلَا عَجْسُهَا عَنْ مَوْضِعِ الكَفِّ أَفْضَلَا

[Like a bow of which the part that is grasped is sufficient in size for the filling of the hand, not less than suffices to fill it, nor does the part that is grasped thereof extend beyond the place of the hand: the pret. being here used for the aorist to suit the metre]. (TA. [But my original has كَقَوْمٍ, an evident mistranscription.])

افضل عَلَيْهِ: see 5, in two places.

-A2- أَفْضَلْتُ مِنْهُ الشَّىْءَ and ↓ اِسْتَفْضَلْتُ signify the same, (S, O, K, TA,) i. e. I left of it the thing remaining, or redundant. (O, TA.)