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عل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

يَعْلُولٌ ذ A pool of water left by a torrent, white, and flowing in a regular, or continuous, course, one portion following another: (As, O, K, TA:) or, accord. to Suh, in the R, [simply] a pool of water left by a torrent; so called because it waters the ground a second time (يَعُلُّ الأَرْضَ بِمَائِهِ [after its having been watered by the rain]): pl. يَعَالِيلُ. (TA.) ― -b2- And A dye (صِبْغ) that is imbided (عُلَّ) one time after another: (O, K:) or, accord. to 'Abd-El-Lateef El-Baghdádee, a garment, or piece of cloth, dyed, and dyed again. (TA.) ― -b3- Accord. to AA, [app. as applied to camels,] يَعَالِيلُ signifies That have drunk one time after another; and has no sing.: but it is said on other authority to signify that go away at random to pasture (اَلَّتِى تَهْمِى) one time after another; and to have for its sing. يَعْلُولٌ: and some say that it signifies such as are excessive in respect of whiteness. (TA.) ― -b4- Also, the sing., Rain after rain: (AO, O, K:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b5- And the pl., (S, M, O, TA,) [accord. to the context in the K the sing., which is clearly wrong,] Bubbles (حَبَاب, M, K, TA, [in the CK حُباب,] and نُفَّاخَات, S, O, K, [both, I think, evidently meaning thus,]) upon water; (S, M, O, K;) said to be from the falling of rain; and to be used in a verse of Kaab Ibn-Zuheyr for ذَاتُ يَعَالِيلَ as meaning having bubbles: (TA:) sing. as above. (O.) ― -b6- And Clouds disposed one above another; (S, O;) sing. as above: (S:) or [simply] clouds; so in the R; to which ISd adds containing rain: (TA:) or white clouds; (K, TA; a meaning assigned in the K to the sing.;) but this is said by Niftaweyh in explanation of the phrase بِيضٌ يَعَالِيلُ in a verse of Kaab Ibn-Zuheyr to which reference has been made above: (TA:) or [the sing. signifies] a white portion of clouds. (M, K.) ― -b7- The pl. is also said to signify Lofty mountains; and Suh adds, from the upper parts of which water descends. (TA.) -A2- Also, the sing., A camel having two humps. (IAar, O, K.) ― -b2- And A camel such as is termed أَفِيل [q. v.]. (O.)

Derived headwords

يَعْلُولٌ
  1. 1.
يَعُلُّ الأَرْضَ بِمَائِهِ
اَلَّتِى تَهْمِى
بِيضٌ يَعَالِيلُ