فحل

فَحْلٌ ذ a word of well-known meaning, (S, O,) A male of animals (Mgh, Msb, K) of any kind, (Mgh, K,) [including mankind: and particularly a stallion: generally,] a male [or stallion ] camel: (MA:) pl. [of mult.] فُحُولٌ (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) and فِحَالٌ (S, Msb, K) and فُحُولَةٌ (Mgh, O, Msb, K) and فِحَالَةٌ (S, O, K) and [pl. of pauc.] أَفْحُلٌ: (K:) and ↓ فَحِيلٌ signifies the same as فَحْلٌ; (Kr, TA;) and [particularly] a فَحْل of the camels. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- Hence الفَحْلُ is an appellation of (tropical:) Canopus (سُهَيْلٌ); because it is aloof from the other stars, like the فحل which, when he has covered, goes aloof from the [she-] camels: (S, O, K, TA:) or, as some say, it is so called because of its greatness. (TA.) ― -b3- رَجُلٌ ↓ فَحِيلٌ means the same as فَحْلٌ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) A masculine, as opposed to an effeminate, man ]. (K.) And ↓ اِمْرَأَةٌ فَحْلَةٌ means (assumed tropical:) A clamorous [or, app., masculine ] woman. (S, O, K.) ― -b4- فُحُولُ الشُّعَرَاآءِ is an appellation applied to (assumed tropical:) The poets (O, K) who have overcome, (O,) or who overcome, (K,) in satirizing, those who have vied with them therein; (O, K;) like Jereer and El-Farezdak, (O, TA,) who used to be called فَحْلَا مُضَرَ: (TA:) and in like manner (tropical:) any one who, when he vies with a poet, is judged to have excelled him [is called a فَحْل]; (K, TA; [for فَضَلَ in the CK, I read فُضِّلَ, as in other copies of the K;]) like 'Alkameh Ibn-'Abadeh; (TA;) who was surnamed الفَحْلُ because he took to wife Umm-Jundab when Imrael-Keys divorced her on the occasion of her judging him [i. e. 'Alkameh] to have overcome him [Imra-el-Keys] in poetry. (S, O, K, TA.) ― -b5- فَحْلٌ also means [app. (assumed tropical:) A vigorous orator: see هَادِرٌ. ― -b6- And] (tropical:) A relater, reciter, or rehearser, by heart, [of poetry, and of traditions, or narratives learned, or heard, or received, from another or others;] syn. رَاوٍ: pl. فُحُولٌ: (K, TA:) so in the M. (TA.) ― -b7- See also فُحَّالٌ, in three places. And see مُتَفَحِّلٌ. ― -b8- And (tropical:) A mat that is made of the woven leaves of the palm-tree thus called, (Sh, * S, * O, * K, * TA,) i. e., of the palm-tree called فُحَّال: (S, O, K, TA:) pl. فُحُولٌ. (S, O, TA.) ― -b9- And (assumed tropical:) Rain is thus called [in a verse of Et-Tirimmáh Ibn-El-Hakeem, being likened to the stallion-camel, because of its fertilizing the earth]. (Ham p. 110.)