iz. ar. cm: matâli‘. [tulû‘’dan im. masdar-ı mîmî] 1. Güneşin veya diğer bir kevkebin doğması; tulû‘. 2. Şems ve kevâkibin doğdukları mahal. 3. ed. [arûzda] bir kasîde veya gazelin ilk beyti.

s. (pl. مطالع) 1. A place or time of rising of a heavenly body or point above the eastern horizon. 2. A means by which a matter promises to become accomplished. 3. An opening distich of a poem composed in the Arabian style, having in its two first hemistichs the same rhyme as in all the other distichs. 4. (mystics) A manifestation of God to a saint as he recites the Qur’an.