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خ ن ط ل

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes scattered or dispersed groups of animals, particularly camels and cattle. It can also refer to dispersed clouds or viscous saliva, often using the concept of scattering or fragmentation.

Derived headwords

الخنطليلةnoun
  1. 1.
    group of camels/cattleclassical

    A piece or group of camels or cattle.

  2. 2.
    group of cloudsclassical

    A piece or group of clouds, used metaphorically.

الخنطولةnoun
  1. 1.
    group of animalsclassical

    A group or flock of animals, especially camels or livestock.

خناطيلnoun
  1. 1.
    scattered groupsclassical

    Plural of خنطولة, referring to scattered groups of animals, such as cattle or wild asses.

  2. 2.
    dispersed herdsclassical

    Refers to dispersed herds of animals, implying they are spread out.

  3. 3.
    viscous salivaclassical

    Viscous and obstructive saliva, described as being spread out or clotted.

خنطولةnoun
  1. 1.
    group of animalsclassical

    A single group or piece of animals, particularly camels or cattle. It is considered the singular form for خناطيل.

Parallel reading

هي القطعة من الإبل والبقر، كذلك من السحاب على التشبيه.
It is the piece of camels and cattle, and likewise of clouds by way of metaphor.
وهي الطائفة من الدواب والإبل
And it is the flock of livestock and camels.
والجمع: خناطيل
And the plural is: خناطيل.
دعت مية الأعداد واستبدلت بها خناطيل آجال من العين خذل
Miyyah called the multitudes and replaced them with scattered groups of doomed ones from the eye, defeated.
أراد بها القطعة من البقر.
He intended by it a piece of cattle.
وهي خناطيل تجوس الخضرا
And they are scattered groups traversing the green pastures.
أراد بها قطيع الإيل.
He intended by it a herd of wild asses.
وإبل خناطيل: متفرقة
And scattered camels: dispersed.
قيل: واحدها: خنطولة، كما سبق
It was said: its singular is: خنطولة, as previously mentioned.
وقيل: لا واحد لها كعباديد، ونحوها.
And it was said: it has no singular, like عباديد and similar words.
ولعاب خناطيل: متلزج معترض بها
And viscous saliva: sticky and obstructing them.
كاد اللعاع من الحوذان يسحطها ... ورجرج بين لحييها خناطيل
The saliva from the grass almost made it fall... and viscous saliva churned between its jaws.
الخناطيل: القطع المتفرقة.
Al-Khanaṭīl: the scattered pieces.