هدل

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of drooping, hanging down, or dangling. It is applied to sounds, physical features like lips or branches, and even to specific types of birds or their young.

Derived headwords

الهَدِيلnoun

1.
The male pigeonboth
The male pigeon
2.
The sound of pigeonsboth
The sound of pigeons
3.
A chick that lived during the time of Noah, peace be upon him; a bird of prey hunted it, and they say there is no pigeon but that it cries over itboth
A chick that lived during the time of Noah, peace be upon him; a bird of prey hunted it, and they say there is no pigeon but that it cries over it

هدلverb

1.
The turtledove cooed with a cooing sound, with kasra, a cooingboth
The turtledove cooed with a cooing sound, with kasra, a cooing
2.
He loosened it and sent it downwardsboth
He loosened it and sent it downwards

هدل القمري يهدل هديلا — The dove cooed with a cooing sound.

هدلت الشئ أهدله هدلا — I let the thing down.

هَدَلnoun

1.
The turtledove cooed with a cooing sound, with kasra, a cooingboth
The turtledove cooed with a cooing sound, with kasra, a cooing
2.
He loosened it and sent it downwardsboth
He loosened it and sent it downwards

فصيل هادلnoun

1.
young camel with drooping lipclassical
A young camel afflicted with an ulcer that causes its lip to droop.

بعير هدلadjective

1.
camel with long lipclassical
A camel characterized by a long upper lip, considered a praiseworthy trait.

هدلverb

1.
The turtledove cooed with a cooing sound, with kasra, a cooingboth
The turtledove cooed with a cooing sound, with kasra, a cooing
2.
He loosened it and sent it downwardsboth
He loosened it and sent it downwards

وقد هدل بالكسر يهدل هدلا — And he had a drooping lip.

تهدلتverb

1.
It hung downboth
It hung down

وقد تهدلت شفته، أي استرخت — And his lip drooped, meaning it became loose.

وتهدلت أغصان الشجرة، أي تدلت — And the branches of the tree drooped, meaning they hung down.

الهدالnoun

1.
hanging part of a branchclassical
That which hangs down from a branch.

Parallel reading

الهديل: الذكر من الحمام.

Al-hadeel: The male of the pigeon.

كأن الهديل الظالع الرجل وسطها من البغي شريب يغرد منزف

As if the cooing pigeon, limping, was a man among them, a drunkard singing, bleeding.

والهديل: صوت الحمام.

And al-hadeel: the sound of pigeons.

يقال: هدل القمري يهدل هديلا، مثل يهدر.

It is said: The dove cooed, cooing, like it rumbles.

أرى ناقتي عند المحصب شاقها رواح اليماني والهديل المرجع

I see my she-camel at al-Muhassab, the journey of the Yemeni has tired her, and the cooing is the return.

والهديل: فرخ كان على عهد نوح عليه السلام فصاده جارح من جوارح الطير.

And al-hadeel: a chick that was during the time of Noah (peace be upon him) and was hunted by a bird of prey.

فليس من حمامة إلا وتبكى عليه.

There is no pigeon but that it weeps for him.

وما من تهتفين به لنصر بأسرع جابة لك من هديل

And there is no one you call upon for victory that responds faster to you than Hadeel.

هدلت الشئ أهدله هدلا، إذا أرخيته وأرسلته إلى أسفل.

I let down the thing, I let it down, if you loosen it and send it downwards.

ويقال: هدل البعير هدلا، وهو أن تأخذه القرحة فيهدل مشفره، فهو فصيل هادل.

And it is said: The camel drooped, meaning an ulcer afflicts it and makes its lip droop, so it is a drooping-lipped young camel.

وبعير هدل، إذا كان طويل المشفر، وذلك مما يمدح به.

And a camel is hadal, if it has a long lip, and that is something to be praised.

وقد هدل بالكسر يهدل هدلا.

And he had a drooping lip, he drooped, with a drooping lip.

بكل شعشاع صهابى هدل

With every swift, dust-raising, long-lipped camel.

وقد تهدلت شفته، أي استرخت.

And his lip drooped, meaning it became loose.

وتهدلت أغصان الشجرة، أي تدلت.

And the branches of the tree drooped, meaning they hung down.

والهدال بالفتح: ما تدلى من الغصن.

And al-hadal (with fatha): that which hangs down from the branch.

يدعو الهديل وساق حر فوقه أصلا بأودية ذوات هدال

He calls for the cooing pigeon, and a swift bird above it, rooted in valleys with hanging branches.