شمل

شَمْلَةٌ ذ A [ garment of the kind called ] كِسَاآء, with which one wraps, or inwraps, himself (يُشْتَمَلُ بِهِ), (S, Mgh, K,) smaller than the قَطِيفَة; as also ↓ مِشْمَلٌ (K) and ↓ مِشْمَلَةٌ; (S, K;) the last two expl. by Lth as a كِسَاآء having a sparse villous substance, with which one wraps himself, smaller than the قَطِيفَة: (TA:) or the first signifies a small كِسَاآء which one wears in the manner of the اـِزَار [or waist-wrapper ]: (Msb:) or with the Arabs it is a مِئْزَر [or waist-wrapper ] of wool or of [ goats' ] hair, which one wraps round him: and ↓ مِشْمَلَةٌ, such as is made of two pieces sewed together, with which a man wraps himself when he sleeps by night: (Az, TA:) and this last, accord. to Meyd, signifies a كِسَاآء comprising the steel with which one strikes fire, with the apparatus of this latter: (Har p. 628:) the pl. of the first is شِمَالٌ (Msb, TA) and شَمَلَاتٌ. (Msb.) [See also مِشْمَالٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] ضَمَّ عَلَيْهِ اللَّيْلُ شَمْلَتَهُ (tropical:) [ The night contracted upon him its covering of darkness ]. (TA.) ― -b3- And أُمُّ شَمْلَةَ (tropical:) The present world, or its enjoyments; syn. الدُّنْيَا: (IAar, K, TA:) so called because compassing the intellect of a man (تَشْتَمِلُ عَلَى عَقْلِهِ), and concealing it. (TA.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) Wine: (AA, K, TA:) so called for the same reason. (TA.) ― -b5- And The sun. (Z, TA; and T in art. ام).