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مَيَّلَ بَيْنَ شَيْيءَيْنِ He wavered, or vacillated, between two things. (S, MA.) See 10.

مَايَلَهُ He inclined towards him reciprocally: and مَايَلَا they two inclined each towards the other. (TK, art. هود .) See also مَالَ مَعَهُ in 1.

تَمَيَّلَ See 6. ― -b2- تَمَيَّلَ بِالقَوْلِ He vacillated in the saying: see تَرَجَّحَ .

تَمَايَلَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ [He affected an inclining of his body, or a bending, or he inclined his body, or bent, from side to side, in his gait; a meaning well known, and still common]; (S;) syn. تَثَنَّى . (Har, p. 269.) ― -b2- See تَزَايُغٌ . ― -b3- تَمَايَلَتْ فِى مِشْيَتِهَا and ↓ تَمَيَّلَتْ signify the same. (TA.) ― -b4- تَمَايَلَ اـِلَى الشَّىْءِ ; and عَنْ طَرِيقِهِ : i. q. تَجَانَفَ [He affected a deviation, or purposely deviated from his course, &c.] (TA in art. جنف .)

استمالهُ , and استمال بِقَلْبِهِ , (S, K,) He inclined him, and his heart. (K.) ― -b2- اِسْتَمَالَهُ He attracted him to himself; or sought to make him incline. (MA.) ― -b3- استمال is a quasi-pass. of ↓ مَيَّلَهُ . (K, * TA.)

مِيلٌ as used by the Arabs, [A mile:] The distance to which the eye reaches along land: accord. to the ancient astronomers, three thousand cubits: accord to the moderns, four thousand cubits: but the difference is merely verbal; for they agree that its extent is ninety-six thousand digits; [about 5166 English feet;] each digit being the measure of six barley-corns, each placed with its belly next to another; but the ancients say that the cubit is thirty-two digits; which makes the mile three thousand cubits. (Msb, which see for more.) See also مُطْلِبٌ ― -b2- ميِلٌ i. q. مُلْمُولٌ , [A style]. (K.)

مَيْلٌ Inclination; leaning; bent; propensity; tendency.

مَيَلٌ A natural wryness. (S.)

مِيلَانِ (?) of a مَحَالَة of a well: see ثِنَايَةٌ .

مَيَّالٌ [i. q. مُتَمَايِلٌ , Inclining much]. (A, art. فيد .) See سَيَّالٌ .

أَمْيَلُ Swaying on horseback: see an ex. of its pl. مِيلٌ in a verse cited voce أَشْعَلَ . ― -b2- عِمَّةٌ مَيْلَا=ءُ : see قَفْدَا=ءُ .

امالةُ الأَلِفِ The inclining of the sound of ا when quiescent, after fet-hah, towards the sound of ى ; so that the fet-hah, with that ا , composes a sound the same as that of the long “ e ” in the English word “ there. ” This is accordant with present usage; and I have not found any learned Arab who asserts otherwise. See also نَابٌ , and حَجَّاجٌ , and مَشُوبٌ .