فحل

فُحَّالٌ ذ and ↓ فَحْلٌ The male palm-tree, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K, TA,) by means of which the fruitbearing palm-trees are fecundated, (S, * Mgh, * Msb, TA,) and which, when they are on the windward side of the latter trees, fecundate these: (TA:) [see what follows:] only the former word is mentioned [in this sense] by Lth; and ISd says, (TA,) the former word is used peculiarly as applied to the male palm-tree: (K, * TA:) AHn cites AA as saying that ↓ فَحْلٌ is not said except of that which has life, and Aboo-Nasr says the like; but AHn adds that people in general disagree from them as to this: (TA:) the pl. of فُحَّالٌ is فَحَاحِيلُ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and the pl. of ↓ فَحْلٌ is فُحُولٌ (S, Mgh, O, Msb) and فُحُولَةٌ (Mgh, Msb) and فِحَالٌ; (Msb;) of the first of which pls. of فَحْلٌ, the following saying, (S, O, Msb, TA,) of Oheihah Ibn-El-Juláh, (O, TA,) presents an ex.: تَأَبَّرِى يَا خَيْرَةَ الفَسِيلِ تَأَبَّرِى مِنْ حَنَذٍ فَشُولِى اـِذْ ضَنَّ أَهْلُ النَّخْلِ بِالفُحُولِ [ Receive thou fecundation, O best of young palmtrees: receive thou fecundation from Hanadh, and show that thou hast received it: (فَشُولِى being from شَالَتْ بِذَنَبِهَا said of a she-camel, meaning “ she raised her tail, showing thereby that she was pregnant: ”) since the palm-owners have been niggardly of the spadixes of the male palm-trees ]: (S, O, Msb, TA:) the meaning is, that the people of Hanadh were niggardly of the spadixes of their [male] palm-trees, and the east wind blew at the time of the fecundation upon the male trees, bearing off [the pollen of] their spadixes and casting it upon the female trees, so that it served for fecundation: Hanadh is a place about four miles from El-Medeeneh: and it is said to be the town of Oheihah: or to be a water belonging to Suleym and Muzeyneh. (Msb.)