← Back to Lane's Lexicon

شعل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 شَعَلَتِ النَّارُ ذ : see 8. ― -b2- [Hence,] شَعَلَتِ الخَيْلُ فِى الغَارَةِ (assumed tropical:) [ The horsemen became spread or dispersed, or spread or dispersed themselves, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion ]; quasi-pass. of أَشْعَلْتُهَا. (Ham p. 715.) ― -b3- And شَعَلَ فِيهِ, aor. شَعَلَ , (K,) inf. n. شَعْلٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He went far in it; (K;) namely, an affair. (TK.) -A2- شَعَلَ النَّارَ: ― -b2- and الحَرْبَ: see 4. -A3- شَعِلَ, aor. شَعَلَ , (K,) inf. n. شَعَلٌ, (TA,) He (a horse) had the whiteness termed شَعَلٌ and شُعْلَةٌ [expl. below]; (K;) as also ↓ اشعالّ, (Mgh, K, TA,) which occurs in poetry with the ا made movent, i. e. ↓ اِشْعَأَلَّ, inf. n. اِشْعِيلَالٌ; (TA; [in my copy of the Mgh written اِشْعِلَال;]) or ↓ اشعلّ, (S,) or this last also, (TA,) inf. n. اِشعِلَالٌ. (S, TA.) Among the faults in the “ Khizánet el-Fik-h ” is ↓ الاـِشْعَالُ, [expl. as meaning The having ] a whiteness of the أَشْفَار [or edges of the eyelids ]. (Mgh.)

Derived headwords

شَعَلَتِ النَّارُverb
  1. 1.
شَعَلَتِ الخَيْلُ
فِى الغَارَةِ
شَعَلَ فِيهِ
شَعَلَ النَّارَ