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فحل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

فَحِيلٌ ذ : see فَحْلٌ, first sentence. ― -b2- One says also فَحْلٌ فَحِيلٌ, meaning A generous stallioncamel, that begets generous offspring. (S, K. *) Er-Rá'ee says, كَانَتْ نَجَائِبَ مُنْذِرٍ وَمُحَرِّقٍ أُمَّاتُهُنَّ وَطَرْقُهُنَّ فَحِيلَا [ Their mothers were of the generous camels of Mundhir and Moharrik, and their compressing stallion was a generous one, a begetter of generous offspring ]: (S [accord. to one of my copies], and TA:) [some copies of the S have نَجَائِبُ and أُمَّاتِهِنّ; and so has the O: but] IB says that the verse is correctly related as above. (TA.) ― -b3- And كَبْشٌ فَحِيلٌ means A ram that resembles the فَحْل of camels in his excellence (K, TA) and his [ comparative ] greatness. (TA.) ― -b4- See also فَحْلٌ again, third sentence.

Derived headwords

فَحِيلٌ
  1. 1.
فَحْلٌ فَحِيلٌ
كَانَتْ نَجَائِبَ مُنْذِرٍ وَمُحَرِّقٍ
أُمَّاتُهُنَّ وَطَرْقُهُنَّ فَحِيلَا
كَبْشٌ فَحِيلٌ