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قنتل

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to be primarily associated with proper names, specifically a patronymic or a descriptive epithet. It is linked to a poet and his transmitter, indicating a historical or literary context.

Derived headwords

قِنْتَلَةname
  1. 1.
    epithet/nameclassical

    A descriptive epithet or name, possibly derived from a root related to killing or a specific type of person, used here as a patronymic.

قِنْتَلَةname
  1. 1.
    poet's epithetclassical

    The specific epithet of a poet mentioned in the text, whose name is Ibn Qintalah.

Parallel reading

ابن قنتلة، بكسر القاف وسكون النون وكسر المثناة وشد اللام: شاعر أخذ عنه أبو عبد الله بن غلام الفرس، هكذا ضبطه الحافظ في التبصير.
Ibn Qintalah, with a kasrah on the qaf, sukun on the nun, kasrah on the ta', and shaddah on the lam: a poet from whom Abu Abdullah Ibn Ghulam al-Faras took (knowledge), thus did Al-Hafiz record it in Al-Tabsir.