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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root ابل. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

أَبِلَ , aor. اَبَلَ ; (S, M, K;) and أَبَلَ , aor. اَبُلَ ; (K;) inf. n. أَبَالَةٌ , (S, M, K,) of the former verb, (S, M, TA,) or, accord. to Sb, اـِبَالَةٌ , because it denotes an office, and, if so, of the latter verb, (TA,) and أَبَلٌ , (M, K,) which is of the former verb, (M, TA,) and أَبَلَةٌ [like غَلَبَةٌ ]; (T;) He (a man, S) was, or became, skilled in the good management of camels (S, M, K) and of sheep or goats. (M, K.) اـِبَالَةٌ , like كِتَابَةٌ [in measure], signifies The management, or tending, (A, K, TA,) of مَال [meaning camels or other beasts]. (A, TA.) You say, هُوَ حَسَنُ الاـِبَالَةِ He is good in the management, or tending, of his مال [or camels, &c.]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- أَبَلَ , aor. اَبِلَ : see 2, second signification. ― -b3- أُبِلَتِ الاـِبِلُ The camels were gotten, or acquired, as permanent property. (S, TA.) ― -b4- أَبِلَتِ الاـِبِلُ , aor. اَبَلَ ; and أَبَلَت , aor. اَبُلَ ; (K;) inf. n. [of the former] أَبَلٌ and [of the latter] أُبُولٌ ; (TA;) The camels became many, or numerous. (K.) ― -b5- Also أُبَلَتِ الاـِبِلُ , (S, M, K,) and the like is said of wild animals, (S, M,) or others, (K,) aor. اَبُلَ and اَبِلَ , inf. n. أُبُولٌ (S, M, K) and أَبْلٌ ; (M, K;) and أَبِلَت ; and ↓ تأبلّت ; (M, K;) The camels were content, or satisfied, with green pasture, so as to be in no need of water: (S, M, K:) the last verb is mentioned by Z, and he says that it is tropical, and hence أَبِيلٌ applied to “a monk.“ (TA.) ― -b6- [Hence,] أَبَلَ الرَّجُلُ عَنِ ا@مْرَأَتِهِ , and ↓ تأبّل , (S, M, K,) The man was content to abstain from conjugal intercourse with his wife; syn. اِجْتَزَأَعَنْهَا ; (M;) the man abstained from conjugal, or carnal, intercourse with his wife. (S, K, TA.) ― -b7- [Hence also] أَبَلَ , (K,) inf. n. أَبْلٌ , (TA,) (tropical:) He devoted himself to religious exercises; or became a devotee; (K, TA;) as also أَبُلَ , like فَقُهَ , inf. n. أَبَالَةٌ : or this signifies he became a monk. (TA.) ― -b8- And أَبَلَ , aor. اَبِلَ , (Kr, M, K,) inf. n. أَبْلٌ , (Kr, M,) (assumed tropical:) He overcame, and resisted, or withstood; (Kr, M, K;) as also ↓ أبّل , (K,) inf. n. تَأْبِيلٌ ; (TA;) but the word commonly known is أَبَلَّ . (M, TA.) ― -b9- Also (K, TA, but in the CK “ or ”) أَبَلَتِ الاـِبِلُ signifies The camels were left to pasture at liberty, and went away, having with them no pastor: (K:) or they became wild, or shy. (K, * TA.) ― -b10- And The camels sought by degrees, or step by step, or bit by bit, after the أُبُل [q. v.], i. e. the خِلْفَة of the herbage or pasture. (TA.) ― -b11- And, inf. n. أُبُولٌ , The camels remained, or abode, in the place: (M, K:) or remained, or abode, long in the pasturage, and in the place. (El-Moheet, TA.) ― -b12- أَبَلَ العُشْبٌ , inf. n. أُبُولٌ , The herbage became tall, so that the camels were able to feed upon it. (K.) ― -b13- أَبَلَ الشَّجَرُ , inf. n. أُبُولٌ , The trees had green [such, app., as is termed أُبُلٌ ] growing in its dried parts, mixing therewith, upon which camels, or the like, fatten. (Ibn- 'Abbád.) -A2- أَبَلَهُ , inf. n. أَبْلٌ , He assigned to him, or gave him, ( جَعَلَ لَهُ ) pasturing camels, or camels pasturing by themselves. (K.)

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أبّل , (S, K,) inf. n. تَأْبِيلٌ , (K,) He took for himself, got, gained, or acquired, camels; he acquired them as permanent property. (S, K.) [See also 5.] ― -b2- He was one whose camels had become numerous; (T, M, K;) as also ↓ ا=بل , (M, K,) inf. n. اـِيبَالٌ ; (TA;) and ↓ أَبَلَ , aor. اَبِلَ , (K,) inf. n. أَبْلٌ . (TK.) ― -b3- تَأْبِيلٌ الاـِبِلِ The managing, or taking good care, of camels; (M;) and the fattening of them: (M, K:) mentioned by AHn, on the authority of Aboo—Ziyád ElKilábee. (M.) -A2- See also 1.

ا=بَلَ see 2.

تَاَبَّلَ see 1, in two places: ― -b2- and see 8 -A2- تأبّل اـِبِلًا He took for himself, got, gained, or acquired, camels; (AZ, T, M, K;) like تغنّم غَنَمًا . (AZ, T.) [See also 2.]

لَا يَأْتَبِلُ , (S, M, K,) in the O ↓ لا يَتَأَبِّلُ , (TA,) He does not, or will not, keep firmly, or steadily, to the pasturing of camels, nor tend them well; (M, K;) he does not, or will not, manage them, or take care of them, in such manner as to put them in good condition: (As, A 'Obeyd, T, S:) or it signifies, (M, K,) or signifies also, (S,) he does not, or will not, keep firmly, or steadily, upon them when riding them; (T, S, M, K, TA;) used in this sense by a man excusing himself for not putting on a camel his aged father who was walking. (T.)

اـِبْلٌ أبال أبل أبلى اـبل ابل بال بل بلا بلي وبل : see اـِبِلٌ : ― -b2- and أَبِلٌ .

أَبَلٌ : see أَبَلَةٌ .

أَبِلٌ Skilled in the good management of camels (S, M, K) and of sheep or goats; (M, K;) as also ↓ ا=بِلٌ : (S, M, K:) and أَبِلٌ بِالاـِبِلِ , and in poetry ↓ اـِبْلٌ , skilled in the management, or care, of camels. (T.) ― -b2- A man possessing camels; (Fr, M, K;) as also ↓ ا=بِلٌ , (M, K,) similar to تَامِرٌ and لَابِنٌ , (Ham p. 714,) but this is disapproved by Fr; (TA;) and ↓ اـِبَلِىٌّ , (S, M, O,) with fet-h to the ب (S, O,) because several kesrehs together are deemed uncouth; (O;) in the K, erroneously, ↓ أَبَلِىٌّ , with two fet-hahs; (TA;) and ↓ اـِبِلِىٌّ also, (M, K,) with two kesrehs. (K.) ― -b3- بَعِيرٌ أَبِلٌ A fleshy he-camel. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.) ― -b4- نَاقَةٌ أبِلَةٌ A she-camel blessed, prospered, or made to have increase, in respect of offspring. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) In one place in the K, مِنَ الوَلَدِ is put for فِى الوَلَدِ . (TA.)

أُبُلٌ [mentioned in two places in the latter part of the first paragraph,] The خِلْفَة of herbage, (K,) i. e., of dry herbage; [app. meaning what grows in the season called الصَّيْف , or summer, among herbage that has dried up;] growing after a year; upon which camels, or the like, fatten. (TA.)

اـِبِلٌ أبال أبل أبلى اـبل ابل بال بل بلا بلي وبل (T, S, M, Msb, K, &c.,) said by Sb to be the only subst. of this form except حِبِرٌ , and to have none like it among epithets except بِلِزٌ ; for though other instances are mentioned, they are not of established authority; (Msb;) but IJ mentions, with these, حِبِكٌ and اـِطِلٌ [which may be of established authority]; (TA;) [and to these may be added اـِبِطٌ and اـِبِدٌ , and perhaps نِكِحٌ and خِطِبٌ ; respecting which see اـِبِدٌ ;] and for اـِبِلٌ one says also ↓ اـِبلٌ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) sometimes, by way of contraction; (S, Msb;) or this may be a dial. var. of the former; (Kr, MF;) [Camels: and a herd of camels: or] at the least, applied to a صِرْمَة ; i. e. a number [of camels] more than a ذَوْد [which is at least nine,] up to thirty; after which is the هَجْمَة , i. e. forty and upwards; and then, هُنَيْدَةُ , which is a hundred of اـِبِل : (T:) or, accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, a hundred of اـِبِل : (TA:) it is a quasi-pl. n.; (Az, S, ISd, Z, O, Msb, &c.;) a word having no proper sing.; (S, M, O, Msb;) and is of the fem. gender, because the quasi-pl. n. that has no proper sing. is necessarily fem. (S, O, Msb) when not applied to human beings, (S, O,) or when applied to irrational beings, (Msb,) and has ة added in the dim.; (S, Msb;) the dim. of اـِبِلٌ being ↓ أُبَيْلَةٌ : (S, Msb, K:) it is said in the K that it is a sing. applied to a pl. number, and is not a pl., nor a quasi-pl. n.; but in this assertion together with the saying that the dim. is as above is a kind of contradiction; for if it be a sing., and not a quasi-pl. n., what is the reason of its being fem.? (TA:) the pl. is ا=بَالٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and أَبِيلٌ [like عَبِيدٌ pl. of عَبْدٌ , q. v.]; (Msb, TA;) the pl. meaning herds [of camels]; and in like manner أَغْنَامٌ and أَبْقَارٌ mean flocks of sheep or goats and herds of bulls or cows: (Msb, TA:) and the dual, اـِبلَانِ , means two herds [of camels], (Sb, T, S, M, Msb,) each with its pastor; (T;) like as غَنَمَانِ means two flocks of sheep or goats: (S:) or, accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, the dual means two hundreds of اـِبِل . (TA.) ― -b2- الاـِبِلُ الصُّغْرَى [The smaller camels] is an appellation applied to sheep; because they eat more than goats. (IAar in TA art. ضبط .) ― -b3- It is said in the Kur [lxxxviii. 17], أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ اـِلَى ا@لْاـِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ , meaning, accord. to 'Aboo-Amr Ibn-El- 'Alà, (T, TA,) (tropical:) [Will they not then consider] the clouds that bear the water for rain, [how they are created?] (T, K, TA:) but accord. to him who reads الاـِبْلِ , the meaning is, the camels. (T, TA.)

أُبْلَةٌ A blight, blast, taint, or the like: (T, K:) thus written by IAth, agreeably with the authority of Aboo-Moosà; (TA;) occurring in a trad., in which it is said that one should not sell dates until he is secure from الاُبْلَةٌ ; (T, TA;) but accord. to a commentary on the Nh, it is correctly written ↓ أَبَلَةٌ [q. v.] (TA.)

اـِبْلَةٌ أبال أبل أبلى أبله أبلة اـبل اـبله ابله ابلة بال بل بلا بله بلي وبل Enmity; hostility. (Kr, M, K.)

أَبَلَةٌ Unwholesomeness and heaviness of food; (S, M, K;) originally وَبَلَةٌ , like as أَحَدٌ is originally وَحَدٌ ; (S;) as also ↓ أَبَلٌ . (K.) It is said in a trad. that this departs from every property for which the poor-rate has been paid. (S, M.) ― -b2- See also أُبْلَةٌ . ― -b3- An evil quality of herbage or pasture. (AHn, TA in art. نشر .) ― -b4- A cause of harm or injury; evil; mischief. (TA.) ― -b5- A consequence of an action, or a claim which one seeks to obtain for an injury; and a cause of blame or dispraise: having these meanings in the saying, اـِنْ فَعَلْتَ ذَاكَ فَقَدْ خَرَجْتَ مِنْ أَبَلَتِهِ [If thou do that, thou wilt escape from its consequence, &c.]. (T.) ― -b6- A fault, vice, or the like. (Aboo-Málik, T.) So in the saying, مَا عَلَيْكَ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ أَبَلَةٌ [There is not to be charged against thee, in this affair, any fault, &c.]. (T.) ― -b7- A crime; a sin; an unlawful action. (K.) ― -b8- Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite. (IB.)

أَبَلِىٌّ : see أَبِلٌ

أَبُلِىٌّ : see أَبِيلٌ

اـِبَلِىٌّ أبلى أبلي اـبل اـبلي ابلى ابلي بلا بلي , with fet-h to the ب because several kesrehs together are deemed uncouth, Of, or relating to, camels. (S.) ― -b2- See also أَبِلٌ .

اـِبِلِىٌّ أبلى أبلي اـبل اـبلي ابلى ابلي بلا بلي : see أَبِلٌ

أَبِيلٌ (assumed tropical:) A Christian monk; (S M, Msb, K;) so called because of his abstaining ( لِتَأَبُلِهِ ) from women: (TA:) or the chief monk: (T:) or a derotee: (TA:) or an old man, or elder: (M:) or the chief, or head-man, of the Christians: (M, K:) or the man who calls them to prayer by means of the نَاقُوس ; (A Heyth, M, * K;) the beater of the ناقوس : (IDrd:) as also ↓ أَيْبَلِىٌّ , (M and K, but according to the M as meaning “ a monk, ”) which is either a foreign word, or changed by the relative ى , or of the same class as اـِنْقَحْلٌ [in which the first letter as well as th second is augmentative], for Sb says that there is not in the language an instance of the measure فَيْعَلٌ ; (M;) and ↓ أَيْبُلِىٌّ , and هَيْبَلِىٌّ , and ↓ أَبُلِىٌّ and ↓ أَيْبَلٌ , (K,) which last is disallowed by Sb for the reason stated above; (TA;) and ↓ أَيْبُلٌ like أَيْنُقٌ ; and ↓ أَيْبِلِىٌّ ; (K;) the last with fet-h to the hemzeh, and kesr to the ب , and with the [first] ى quiescent; or أَيْبَلِىٌّ [app. a mistranscription for أَيْبِلِىٌّ ] is used by poetic licence for ↓ أَبِيلِىٌّ , like أَيْنُقٌ for أَنْوُقٌ : (TA:) pl. ا=بَالٌ (M, K) and أُبْلٌ , or أُبُلٌ , [accord. to different copies of the K,] with damm [which indicates that the former is meant, though it is irregular]. (K.) By أَبِيلٌ الأَبِيلِينَ is meant 'Eesà [or Jesus], (S, K,) the Messiah. (S.) ― -b2- In the Syriac language it signifies Mourning, or sorrowing. (K.) -A2- Also A staff, or stick. (M, K.) ― -b2- See also اـِبَالَةٌ .

أُبَالَة : see the next paragraph.

اـِبَالَةٌ أبال أباله اـبالة اباله ابالة بالى : see اـِبَّوْلٌ . -A2- Also A bundle of firewood; (T, S, Msb;) and so ↓ اـِبَّالَةٌ : (T, S:) or a great bundle of firewood; and so ↓ أُبَالَةٌ and بُلَةٌ (K) and ↓ اـِبَّالَةٌ : (Bd in cv. 3; but there explained only as signifying a great bundle:) or a bundle of dry herbage; (M, TA;) and so ↓ اـِبَّالَةٌ (K) and ↓ أَبِيلٌ and ↓ أَبِيلَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ اـِيبَالَةٌ , (K, [in the CK اَيْبَالَة ,]) with one of the two ب s changed into ى , and mentioned by Az, but it is said in the S and O that this is not allowable, because this change may not be made in a word of the measure فِعَّالَةٌ , with ة , but only in one without ة , as in the cases of دِينَارٌ and قِيرَاطٌ ; (TA;) and وَبِيلَةٌ signifies the same, (K,) belonging to art. وبل . (TA.) Hence the prov., (S, TA,) صِغْثٌ عَلَى اـِبَالَةٍ and ↓ اـِبَّالَةٍ , (S, K, &c.,) but the former is the more common, and ↓ اـِيبَالَةٍ , which is allowed by Az but disallowed by J; (TA;) [lit. A handful of herbage, or the like, upon a bundle, or great bundle, of firewood, or a bundle of dry herbage;] meaning (assumed tropical:) a trial, or trying event, upon another (S, O, K) that had happened before: (S, O:) or plenty ( خِصْبٌ ) upon plenty; as though bearing two contr. significations. (K.)

أَبِيلَةٌ : see اـِبَالَةٌ .

أُبَيلَةٌ dim of اـِبِلٌ , q. v. (S, Msb, K.)

أَبِيلِىٌّ : see أَبِيلٌ .

أَبَابِيلٌ : see اـِبَّوْلٌ .

أَبَّالٌ A pastor of camels, (M, K, TA,) who manages them, or takes care of them, well. (TA.)

اـِبَّالٌ أبال ابال بالى : see the next paragraph.

اـِبَّوْلٌ أبول ابول بال بول , (T, S, M, Msb, K,) like عِجَّوْلٌ , (S, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, عَجُول ,]) A separate, or distinct, portion of a number of birds, and of horses, and of camels, (M, K,) and of such following one another; (K;) as also ↓ اـِبِيلٌ and ↓ اـِبَّالَةٌ , (M, K,) and ↓ اـِبَالَةٌ , and ↓ اـِيْبَالٌ : (K:) or it signifies a bird separating itself from the row of other birds; (T, TA;) accord. to IAar. (TA.) It is said to be the sing. of ↓ أَبَابِيلٌ : (T, S, M, and Jel in cv. 3:) Ks says, I used to hear the grammarians say that this latter has for its sing. اـِبَّوْلٌ , like عِجَّوْلٌ , of which the pl. is عَجَاجِيلٌ : (Msb:) or its sing. is ↓ اـِبَيلٌ ; (S, Msb;) but he who says this adds, I have not found the Arabs to know a sing. to it: (S:) or each of these is its sing.; (M, Jel;) and so is ↓ اـِبَّالٌ : (Jel:) or its sing. is ↓ اـِبَّالَةٌ , (Bd in cv. 3, and Msb,) originally signifying “a great bundle:” (Bd:) it is said that this seems to be its sing.; and so ↓ أَبَّالَةٌ : or the sing. may be ↓ اـِيبَالَةٌ , like as دِينَارٌ is sing of دَنَانِيرٌ : (T:) or it has no sing., (T, S, M, Bd, Msb, K,) accord. to Fr (T, Msb) and Akh (S) and AO, (T, M,) like شَمَاطِيطُ (Fr, T, Bd) and عَبَادِيدٌ . (AO, M, Bd.) أَبَابِيلٌ signifies, accord. to some, A company in a state of dispersion: (M:) or dispersed companies, one following another: (Msb:) or distinct, or separate, companies, (Akh, S, Msb, K,) like leaning camels: (Msb:) or companies in a state of dispersion. (AO, Msb.) One says, جَا=ءَتْ اـِبِلُكَ أَبَابِيلَ Thy camels came in distinct, or separate, companies. (Akh, S.) And طَيْرٌ أَبَابِيلُ [in the Kur cv. 3 means Birds in distinct, or separate, flocks or bevies]: (Akh, S:) [or] birds in companies from this and that quarter: or following one another, flock after flock: (Zj, T:) or (assumed tropical:) birds in companies; (Bd, Jel;) likened to great bundles, in respect of their compactness. (Bd.) [Respecting these birds, Fei, in the Msb, quotes many fanciful descriptions, which I omit, as absurd.]

اـِبِّيلٌ أبال أبيل ابيل : see اـِبَّوْلٌ , in two places.

أَبَّالَةٌ : see اـِبَّوْلٌ .

اـِبَّالَةٌ أبال أباله اـبالة اباله ابالة بالى : see اـِبَالَةٌ , in three places: ― -b2- and اـِبَّوْلٌ , in two places.

ا=بَلٌ ا=بل More, and most, skilled in the good management of camels. (S, M, K, TA.) Hence the prov., ا=بَلُ مِنْ حُنَيْفِ الحَنَاتِمِ [More skilled &c. than Honeyf-el-Hanátim]. (TA.) And the phrase, هُوَ مِنْ ا=بِلَ النَّاسِ [He is of the most skilled &c. of men]. (S, M, K.) Mentioned by Sb, who says that there is no verb corresponding to it. (M.) [But see 1, first signification.]

ا=بِلٌ ا=بل : see أَبِلٌ , in two places. ― -b2- اـِبِلٌ أَوَابِلٌ , (S, M, K,) and أُبَّلٌ , and أُبَّالٌ , (M,) [all pls. of ا=بِلٌ or ا=بِلَةٌ ,] and ↓ مُوءَبَّلَةٌ , (M,) Many, or numerous, camels: (S, M, K:) or this, [app. meaning the last,] as some say, put in distinct herds; (M;) and so أُبَّالٌ : (TA:) or gotten, gained, or acquired, for permanent possession: (M:) this last is the meaning of the last of the epithets above. (S, K.) ― -b3- ا=بِلٌ , applied to a camel, also signifies Content, or satisfied, with green pasture, so as to be in no need of water: pl. أُبَّالٌ : (S, K:) and so أَوَابِلُ , applied to she-camels, (T, * TA,) and to wild animals. (S in art. بل .) ― -b4- And اـِبِلٌ ا=بِلَةٌ Camels seeking by degrees, or step by step, or bit by bit, after the أُبُل [q. v.], i. e. the خِلْفَة of the herbage or pasture. (TA.) ― -b5- And اـِبِّلٌ أُبَّلٌ Camels left to themselves, (S, M, K, TA,) without a pastor. (TA.)

أَيْبَلٌ and أَيْبُلٌ : see أَبِيلٌ .

أَيْبَلِىٌّ and أَيْبُلِىٌّ and أَيْبِلِىٌّ : see أَبِيلٌ .

اـِيْبَالٌ ايبال : see اـِبَّوْلٌ .

اـِيْبَالَةٌ ايباله ايبالة : see اـِبَالَةٌ , in two places: ― -b2- and see اـِبَّوْلٌ .

أَرْضٌ مَأْبَلَةٌ A land having camels. (S, K.)

اـِبِلٌ مُوءَبَّلَةٌ : see ا=بِلٌ .

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