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كءل

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a specific type of financial transaction involving debt assignment. It also describes physical characteristics, particularly shortness and stoutness, sometimes with a wide-legged stance.

Derived headwords

الكألnoun
  1. 1.
    Debt assignment transactionclassical

    The act of buying or selling a debt owed to you by one person, where that person also owes a debt to another person.

كالverb
  1. 1.
    To assign debtclassical

    To engage in the transaction of buying or selling a debt owed to you by one person, where that person also owes a debt to another person.

الكألةnoun
  1. 1.
    Debt assignmentclassical

    The act or practice of assigning a debt as described under الكأل.

الكؤولةnoun
  1. 1.
    Debt assignmentclassical

    The act or practice of assigning a debt as described under الكأل.

الكوأللadjective
  1. 1.
    Short and stoutclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, and strong.

  2. 2.
    Short, stout, and wide-leggedclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, strong, and has a wide-legged stance (فحج).

المكوئلadjective
  1. 1.
    Short and stoutclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, and strong.

  2. 2.
    Short, stout, and wide-leggedclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, strong, and has a wide-legged stance (فحج).

اكوألverb
  1. 1.
    To be short and stoutclassical

    To possess the qualities of shortness, stoutness, and strength.

كوأللadjective
  1. 1.
    Short and stoutclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, and strong.

  2. 2.
    Short, stout, and wide-leggedclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, strong, and has a wide-legged stance (فحج).

وكأللadjective
  1. 1.
    Short and stoutclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, and strong.

  2. 2.
    Short, stout, and wide-leggedclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, strong, and has a wide-legged stance (فحج).

كلاكلadjective
  1. 1.
    Short and stoutclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, and strong.

  2. 2.
    Short, stout, and wide-leggedclassical

    Describing a person who is short, stout, strong, and has a wide-legged stance (فحج).

Parallel reading

أن تشتري أو تبيع دينا لك على رجل بدين له على آخر
To buy or sell a debt owed to you by a man who owes a debt to another.
كله عن اللحياني
All of this is from Al-Laythani.
كذا في المحكم
Thus it is in Al-Muhkam.
نقله الجوهري عن أبي زيد
Al-Jawhari transmitted it from Abu Zayd.
إذا كان فيه قصر وغلظ وشدة قيل: رجل كوألل
If he has shortness, stoutness, and strength, it is said: a man is ku'allal.
وسيأتي للمصنف في كول
And the author will mention it later under the root 'kwl'.
وغلط الجوهري هناك، وهنا تبعه فذكره غير منبه عليه
And Al-Jawhari erred there, and here he followed him, mentioning it without alerting to the error.