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شعل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

شَعَالِيلُ ذ [a pl., of which the sing. is app. شُعْلُولٌ, q. v.; Things, and persons, scattered, or dispersed ]. Aboo-Wejzeh says, حَتَّى اـِذَا مَا دَنَتْ مِنْهُ سَوَابِقُهَا وَلِلُّغَامِ بِعِطْفَيْهِ شَعَالِيلُ [ Until, or until when, those of them that outstripped approached him, and there were scattered portions of foam upon his two sides ]. (TA.) And one says, ذَهَبُوا شَعَالِيلَ, (S, O, K,) like شَعَارِيرَ, i. e., (S, O,) [ They went away ] in a state of dispersion; (K;) [or] they dispersed themselves, or became dispersed. (S, O.)

Derived headwords

شَعَالِيلُ
  1. 1.
حَتَّى اـِذَا مَا دَنَتْ مِنْهُ سَوَابِقُهَا
وَلِلُّغَامِ بِعِطْفَيْهِ شَعَالِيلُ
ذَهَبُوا شَعَالِيلَ