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سمل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 سَمَلَ عَيْنَهُ ذ , (S, * M, Mgh, * Msb, K,) aor. سَمُلَ , (M, Msb,) inf. n. سَمْلٌ, (S, M, Msb,) He put out, or blinded, (فَقَأَ,) his eye (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) with an iron instrument (S, Msb, TA) made hot; (S, Msb;) or with some other thing; sometimes with a thorn; (TA;) like سَمَرَهَا: (M and K in art. سمر:) and he pulled it out: (Mgh:) and ↓ استملها signifies the same. (Fr, K.) ― -b2- سَمَلَ الحَوْضَ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. as above; (M;) and ↓ سمّلهُ, (M, K,) inf. n. تَسْمِيلٌ; (TA;) He cleansed, or cleared, the watering-trough, or tank, (S, M, K,) from the سَمَلَة, (M, K,) [i. e.] from the black mud, or black fetid mud, [ that was in it, ] and from the mud, or clay. (S.) And سَمَلْتُ البِئْرَ I cleansed, or cleared out, the well. (Msb.) ― -b3- سَمَلَ بَيْنَهُمْ, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (S, M,) He effected a rectification of affairs, or an adjustment, or a reconciliation, between them; as also ↓ اسمل: (S, M, K:) or he strove, laboured, or exerted himself, in effecting a rectification between them; and so فِى المَعِيشَةِ [ in respect of the means of subsistence ]. (Msb.) -A2- سَمَلَ, (S, M, K,) aor. سَمُلَ , (M,) inf. n. سُمُولٌ (S, M, K) and سُمُولَةٌ, [or this is probably the inf. n. of the latter of the next two following syn. verbs,] (K,) It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) was, or became, old, and worn out; as also ↓ اسمل; (S, M, K;) and so سَمُلَ, like كَرُمَ; (K;) and ↓ اِسْمَأَلَّ, inf. n. اِسْمِئْلَالٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- See also the next paragraph.

Derived headwords

سَمَلَ عَيْنَهُverb
  1. 1.
سَمَلَ الحَوْضَ
سَمَلَ بَيْنَهُمْ
فِى المَعِيشَةِ