فتل

فَتْلَةٌ ذ [as an inf. n. un., A twisting. ― -b2- And hence, app., (assumed tropical:) An intense firmness of compacture of the flesh of the fore arm: expl. in the TT, as from the M, by the words شِدة عَصْب الدِباغ; for which, I doubt not, we should read شِدَّةُ عَصْبِ الذِّرَاعِ: see مَفْتُولٌ. ― -b3- And A twist. ― -b4- And particularly A twisted slip, formed by slitting, of the ear of a she-camel. (See 4 in art. دبر, in the last quarter of the paragraph.) ― -b5- And, as used in the present day, A needleful of thread. ― -b6- Also] The seed-vessel of the سَلَم and of the سَمُر, peculiarly, (M, K,) resembling the pods of the bean, (M,) when they first come forth. (M, K.) And The blossom of the سَمُرَة: (M:) or the fruit of the سَمُر and of the عُرْفُط: (TA:) or the blossom of the [ kind of trees called ] عِضَاه, (O, TA,) when it has become compactly organized: (TA:) or it signifies also, (M, K,) and so does ↓ فَتَلَةٌ, (K,) or peculiarly this latter, بالتَّحْرِيكِ, as AHn says on the authority of some one or more of the relaters, (O,) the fruit (بَرَمَة) of the عُرْفُط, (M, O, K,) because its filaments, or fringe-like appertenances, are as though they were cotton, and it is white, like the button of the shirt, or somewhat larger: (AHn, M, O:) or it signifies one of what are termed ↓ فَتْلٌ, which means what are [ as though they were ] twisted, of the وَرَق [properly signifying leaves of simple and common kinds] of trees, such as the ورق of the [ tamarisks called ] طَرْفَاآء and أَثْل and the like; (TA;) or, (M, K, TA,) as AHn says, (M, TA,) this word فَتْلٌ signifies what are not وَرَق, but are substitutes for these: (M, K, TA:) and, (K,) as some say, (M,) what do not expand, of [ the appertenances of ] plants, but are [ as though they were ] twisted; (M, K;) so that they are like هُدْب [thus in the TT as from the M, perhaps a mistranscription for هَدَب, q. v.]; being like the هدب [i. e. هَدَب] of the طَرْفَاآء and أَثْل and أَرْطى. (M.) ― -b7- See also فَتِيلٌ, last sentence.