سحل

سَحْلٌ ذ A white garment or piece of cloth: (Msb:) or a white, thin garment or piece of cloth: (TA:) or a white garment or piece o cloth, of cotton, (S, K,) of those of El-Yemen: (S:) pl [of mult.] سُحُولٌ and سُحُلٌ (S, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَسْحَالٌ. (K. [See also ثِيَابٌ سَحُولِيَّةٌ, below.]) ― -b2- And A garment, or piece of cloth, of which the spun thread is not composed of two twists; as also ↓ سَحِيلٌ: (K:) or, as some say, the latter is not applied to a garment, or piece of cloth; but to thread, in a sense expl. below: (TA:) or, accord. to Aboo-Nasr, it (the latter) is applied also to a garment, or piece of cloth, of which the spun thread is a single yarn: the مُبْرَم is that of which the spun thread is twisted of two yarns: and the مِتْاآم is that of which the warp and the woof are each of two yarns. (S, TA.) ― -b3- Also, (K,) or ↓ سَحِيلٌ, (S,) or both, (TA,) A rope that is of a single strand; (K, TA;) or the latter, a rope that is twisted of one twist, like as the tailor twists his thread: the مُبْرَم is that which is composed of two twists twisted together into one: (Aboo-Nasr, S, TA:) such a rope is also termed ↓ مَسْحُولٌ; but not ↓ مُسْحَلٌ, for the sake of [analogy to] مُبْرَمٌ; (S, TA;) or the latter epithet is sometimes applied to it: (S, TA: [see also مِسْحَلٌ:]) ↓ سَحِيلٌ likewise signifies thread not twisted; (Aboo-Nasr, S, TA;) or spun thread not composed of two twists. (TA.) -A2- Also Ready money: (S, TA:) an inf. n. used as a subst. [properly so termed]. (TA.)