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خدل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

خَدْلٌ خدل Full [or plump ]: and large, big, or bulky: (K:) or large, and full [or plump ], in the shank and fore arm: or, as some say, large, big, or bulky. TA.) You say اِمْرَأَةٌ خَدْلَةٌ and ↓ خَدِلَةٌ (K, TA, [in the CK, by an omission, the latter is made to be خِدْلَةٌ,]) A woman thick and round in the shank: pl. خِدَالٌ: [in the CK, erroneously, اَخْدَالٌ:] or full of flesh in the limbs, with slenderness of the bones; as also ↓ خَدْلَاآءُ and ↓ خِدْلِمٌ: (K:) or these two, in the latter of which the م is augmentative, a woman full [or plump ] in the shanks and fore arms. (S.) And خَدْلَةٌ السَّاقِ A woman round in the shank. (JK.) And مَخَلْخَلُهَا خَدْلٌ Her place of the anklet [i. e. her ankle ] is large, or big. (S.) And سَاقٌ خَدْلَةٌ A full [or plump ] shank: (K:) or a round shank: pl. خِدَالٌ. (JK.)

Derived headwords

خَدْلٌ
  1. 1.
اِمْرَأَةٌ خَدْلَةٌ
خَدْلَةٌ السَّاقِ
مَخَلْخَلُهَا خَدْلٌ
سَاقٌ خَدْلَةٌ