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عنثل

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root entry primarily discusses the word 'أم عنثل' and its variations, which refers to a female hyena. It also touches upon linguistic variations and attributions of this term.

Derived headwords

أُمُّ عَنثَلٍname
  1. 1.
    female hyenaclassical

    A proper name or epithet referring to a female hyena.

عَنثَلother
  1. 1.
    hyenaclassical

    A term, possibly related to 'أم عنثل', that might refer to a hyena.

أُمُّ عُثيلٍname
  1. 1.
    female hyena (variant)classical

    A variant pronunciation or spelling of 'أم عنثل', also referring to a female hyena.

Parallel reading

أم عنثل، كجندل أهمله الجوهري والصاغاني
Umm 'Anthal, like jandal, was neglected by Al-Jawhari and Al-Saghani.
وقال سيبويه في كتابه: هي الضبع
And Sibawayh said in his book: it is the hyena.
قال بعضهم: هي لغة في أم عثيل كدرهم
Some of them said: it is a dialectal variant of Umm 'Uthayl, like dirham.
وهكذا نقله الجوهري عن كتاب سيبويه
And this is how Al-Jawhari transmitted it from Sibawayh's book.
قال ابن بري: والذي في كتاب سيبويه: أم عنثل بالنون
Ibn al-Bari said: And what is in Sibawayh's book is: Umm 'Anthal with a noon.
وقد أشرنا إليه آنفا
And we have already referred to it above.