فصل

فصِيلٌ ذ A young camel when weaned from his mother: (S, M, Mgh, * O, K, TA:) and some times such a young one of the bovine kind: (TA:) [and by a proleptic application,] a young camel [in a general sense], because he is, or will be, weaned from his mother: (Msb:) [in the T, voce حُوَارٌ, and in other lexicons &c., it is applied to a young, newly-born, camel: and in the L, voce سُخْدٌ, to a fœtus in a she-camel's belly: see an ex. of its meaning a young sucking camel (one of many such exs.) in the first paragraph of art. رجل; and a strange similar usage of the first of the following pls. in a verse cited voce خَسْفٌ:] the pl. is فُصْلَانٌ, (Sb, S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) agreeably with rule, (Sb, M,) and فِصْلَانٌ, (Sb, Fr, M, Msb, K,) formed by likening the sing. to غُرَابٌ, of which غِرْبَانٌ is a pl., (Sb, M,) and فِصَالٌ, (Sb, S, M, Msb, K,) as though it were an epithet, (Sb, M, Msb,) like كَرِيمٌ, of which كِرَامٌ, is a pl.: (Msb:) and the female is termed فَصِيلَةٌ. (M, K.) ― -b2- Also A حَائِط [or wall of enclosure ], (M, O, K,) having little height, (O, K,) before, or in front of, a fortress; (M, K;) or (K) before, or in front of, the [ main ] wall of a city or town. (O, K.) One says, وَثَّقُوا سُورَ المَدِينَةِ بِكِبَاشٍ وَفَصِيلٍ [ They strengthened the wall of the city by means of buttresses and a low wall in front of it ]. (TA.) ― -b3- And A piece of stone; of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ. (TA.)