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ن ع ل

Root entry · 23 derived lemmas

The root ن ع ل (n-ʿ-l) primarily relates to covering or protecting the foot, most notably with footwear. It extends to cover things that protect or are attached to the bottom of objects, like the sole of a shoe, the metal cap on a sword scabbard, or even the shoe of a horse. Metaphorically, it can refer to something trodden upon, like a lowly person or a tough patch of ground.

Derived headwords

النَّعْلnoun
  1. 1.
    shoeboth

    What is used to protect the foot from the ground; footwear.

  2. 2.
    soleboth

    The part of a sword scabbard that is at the bottom, often made of metal.

  3. 3.
    hard groundclassical

    A hard, thick piece of ground, like a small hill, whose pebbles shine and which does not grow anything.

  4. 4.
    lowly personclassical

    A base or humiliated man who is trodden upon like the ground.

  5. 5.
    heel of a bowclassical

    The part of a bow's string-holder that is covered by leather.

  6. 6.
    wifeclassical

    A woman, used metaphorically as a term of endearment or to refer to a wife.

  7. 7.
    mule's shoeclassical

    A metal shoe for a mule's hoof.

  8. 8.
    fishclassical

    A large, white fish with a big head, about a cubit long.

  9. 9.
    fortressclassical

    A fortress located on a rocky mountain in Yemen.

النَّعْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    shoeboth

    What is used to protect the foot from the ground.

  2. 2.
    wifeclassical

    A woman, used metaphorically.

نِعَالnoun
  1. 1.
    shoesboth

    Plural of نَعْل (naʿl), referring to footwear.

  2. 2.
    hard groundclassical

    Plural of نَعْل (naʿl), referring to hard, elevated patches of ground.

نَعَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to wear shoesboth

    To wear footwear.

تَنَعَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    to wear shoesboth

    To wear footwear.

  2. 2.
    to travel on footclassical

    To travel on foot, especially over hot or rough ground.

  3. 3.
    to treadclassical

    To tread upon something, like a garment.

انْتَعَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to wear shoesboth

    To wear footwear.

  2. 2.
    to travel on footclassical

    To travel on foot, especially over hot or rough ground.

  3. 3.
    to treadclassical

    To tread upon something, like a garment.

  4. 4.
    to plantclassical

    To plant in hard ground.

نَاعِلnoun
  1. 1.
    wearer of shoesboth

    One who wears shoes.

  2. 2.
    wild assclassical

    A wild ass, named for the hardness of its hooves.

نَاعِلadjective
  1. 1.
    having shoesboth

    Possessing shoes.

  2. 2.
    hard-hoofedclassical

    Describing a hoof that is hard and solid, like a shoe.

مُنْتَعِلnoun
  1. 1.
    wearer of shoesboth

    One who wears shoes.

مُتَنَعِّلnoun
  1. 1.
    wearer of shoesboth

    One who wears shoes.

أَنْعَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to shoe (animal)both

    To put shoes on an animal's hooves.

  2. 2.
    to give shoesclassical

    To give shoes to someone.

تَنْعِيلnoun
  1. 1.
    shoeing (animal)both

    The act of putting shoes on an animal's hooves.

  2. 2.
    protection of hoovesclassical

    Protecting a mule's hoof with an iron plate or a camel's foot with leather to prevent wear.

مُنْعَلadjective
  1. 1.
    having shoesboth

    Possessing shoes.

  2. 2.
    strong-hoofedclassical

    Describing a horse with strong hooves.

  3. 3.
    white markings on legsclassical

    Describing a horse with white markings on its lower legs, near the hooves.

مُنْعَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    hard groundclassical

    A piece of hard, rough ground.

مُنْعَلَةadjective
  1. 1.
    hard groundclassical

    Describing hard, rough ground.

بَنُو نُعَيْلَةname
  1. 1.
    Banu Nuʿaylahclassical

    A tribe or clan descended from Nuʿaylah.

ذَات النِّعَالname
  1. 1.
    Dhat al-Niʿālclassical

    The name of a horse belonging to Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām.

المُنْعَلَاتnoun
  1. 1.
    calamitiesclassical

    Great troubles or disasters that humiliate a person.

نَعَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    to shoe (animal)classical

    To put shoes on an animal's hooves.

نُعَيْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    small shoeclassical

    Diminutive of نَعْل (naʿl), a small shoe.

نَعَّالnoun
  1. 1.
    shoemakerclassical

    One who makes shoes.

النَّعَّالِيُّونname
  1. 1.
    Al-Naʿāliyyūnclassical

    A group of hadith narrators attributed to making shoes, except for Abu Abdullah al-Husayni, who was known for memorizing hadith.

نَعْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    wifeclassical

    A wife, used metaphorically.

Parallel reading

النعل: ما وقيت به القدم من الأرض، كالنعلة
The naʿl: what you protect your foot with from the ground, like the naʿlah.
النعل الحذاء، (مؤنثة)
The naʿl is the shoe, (feminine).
تصغيرها نعيلة
Its diminutive is nuʿaylah.
يا خير من يمشي بنعل فرد
O best of those who walk with a single sole.
النعل مؤنثة، وهي التي تلبس في المشي، تسمى الآن تاسومة
The naʿl is feminine, and it is what is worn for walking, now called a tasūmah.
والفرد: هي التي لم تخصف ولم تطارق، وإنما هي طاق واحد
And al-fard: it is that which is not layered or joined, but is a single layer.
له نعل لا تطبي الكلب ريحها
He has a shoe whose scent the dog cannot tolerate.
ج: نعال
Plural: niʿāl.
الحسين بن أحمد بن طلحة ... ويعرف بالحافظ لحفظه النعال
Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Talhah... and he is known as Al-Ḥāfiẓ for his memorization of hadith.
ونعل، كفرح نعلا وتنعل وانتعل: لبسها
And naʿala, like fariḥa, naʿlan, tanaʿʿala, and intaʿala: to wear them (shoes).
فهو ناعل ومنتعل ومتنعل
So he is nāʿil, muntāʿil, and mutanaʿʿil.
من المجاز: النعل: حديدة في أسفل غمد السيف مؤنثة
From metaphor: the naʿl: an iron piece at the bottom of a sword scabbard, feminine.
إلى ملك لا تنصف الساق نعله
To a king whose scabbard's metal cap does not reach halfway up the leg.
كان نعل سيف رسول الله من فضة
The metal cap of the Prophet's sword was made of silver.
النعل: القطعة الصلبة الغليظة من الأرض شبه الأكمة
The naʿl: a hard, thick piece of ground resembling a small hill.
فدى لامرئ والنعل بيني وبينه
May I be sacrificed for a man, and the hard ground between me and him.
إذا ابتلت النعال فالصلاة في الرحال
If the shoes (or hard ground) get wet, then pray in your dwellings.
النعال: جمع نعل، وهو: ما غلظ من الأرض في صلابة
Al-niʿāl: plural of naʿl, which is: what is thick and hard from the ground.
يقول إذا مطرت الأرضون الصلاب فزلقت بمن يمشي فيها فصلوا في منازلكم
He says: when the hard grounds are rained upon and become slippery for those walking on them, then pray in your homes.
فالنعال منها شبيه بالنعل، فيها ارتفاع وصلابة
The naʿl from it (hard ground) is like a shoe, having elevation and hardness.
من المجاز: النعل: الرجل الذليل الذي يوطأ كما توطأ الأرض
From metaphor: the naʿl: the humiliated man who is trodden upon as the ground is trodden upon.
شر عبيد حسبا وأصلا ... دارجة موطؤة ونعلا
The worst of slaves in lineage and origin... a trodden path and like a shoe.
النعل: العقب يلبس ظهر سية القوس، أو الجلد الذي على ظهرها كله
The naʿl: the heel that covers the back of the bow's string-holder, or the leather on its entire back.
العرب تكني عن المرأة بالنعل
The Arabs use the term naʿl as a euphemism for a woman.
النعل: حديدة المكرب
The naʿl: the iron piece of the plowshare.
النعل: سمكة بيضاء ضخمة الرأس في طول ذراع
The naʿl: a large, white fish with a big head, about a cubit long.
النعل: حصن على جبل شطب
The naʿl: a fortress on a rocky mountain.
ما وقي به حافر الدابة، وخفها
What is used to protect the hoof of a beast, and its foot.
ونعلهم، كمنع: وهب لهم النعال
And naʿalahum, like manaʿa: to give them shoes.
أنعل الدابة والبعير ونعلهما
To shoe a beast and a camel and their hooves.
أنعلت الخيل، بالهمزة
Anʿalat al-khayl, with hamzah.
أن غسان تنعل خيلها
That Ghassan shoes its horses.
أن الرجل فهو ناعل، وهو نادر: كثرت نعاله
And the man is nāʿil, and it is rare: his shoes became numerous.
ورجل ناعل ومنعل كمكرم: ذو نعل
And a man nāʿil and munʿal like mukram: possessing shoes.
يشنظر بالقوم الكرام ويعتزي ... إلى شر حاف في البلاد وناعل
He boasts over noble people and claims lineage... to the worst of the barefoot and the shod in the land.
وحافر ناعل صلب على المثل
And a hoof, nāʿil, is hard, by way of example.
يركب قيناه وقيعا ناعلا
He rides his mares and strikes a hard hoof.
وفرس منعل كمكرم: شديد الحافر
And a horse munʿal like mukram: strong-hoofed.
إذا كان في مآخير أرساغه بياض ولم يستدر
If there is white on the back of its pasterns and it does not encircle.
وهو أن يحيط البياض بما فوق الحافر ما دام في موضع الرسغ
It is when the white surrounds what is above the hoof as long as it is in the pastern area.
يقال: فرس منعل
It is said: a munʿal horse.
الإنعال أن يكون البياض في مؤخر الرسغ مما يلي الحافر على الأشعر لا يعدوه ولا يستدير
Al-inʿāl is when the white is on the back of the pastern near the hoof, not exceeding it and not encircling.
وانتعل الأرض: سافر راجلا
And intaʿala al-arḍ: to travel on foot.
انتعل فلان الرمضاء: إذا سافر فيها حافيا
So-and-so intaʿala al-ramḍāʾ: if he traveled over the hot sand barefoot.
انتعل: زرع في النعل؛ أي الأرض الغليظة
Intaʿala: to plant in the naʿl; meaning the hard ground.
انتعل: ركب صلاب الأرض وحرارها
Intaʿala: to ride over the hard and hot parts of the earth.
حلو ومر كعطف القدح مرته ... في كل إني قضاه الليل ينتعل
Sweet and bitter like the curve of the cup, its bitterness... every night it spends, it rides.
المنعل والمنعلة كمقعد ومقعدة: الأرض الغليظة، اسم وصفة
Al-munʿal and al-munʿalah like maqʿad and maqʿadah: hard ground, a noun and an adjective.
بنو نعيلة: بطن من العرب
Banū Nuʿaylah: a clan of Arabs.
ذات النعال: فرس الزبير بن العوام رضي الله تعالى عنه
Dhāt al-Niʿāl: the horse of Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, may God be pleased with him.
الناعل: حمار الوحش
Al-nāʿil: the wild ass.
التنعيل: تنعيل حافر البرذون بطبق من حديد تقيه الحجارة
Al-tanʿīl: shoeing the hoof of a mule with an iron plate to protect it from stones.
وكذا تنعيل خف البعير بجلد لئلا يحفى
And likewise, shoeing the camel's foot with leather so it does not get worn out.
من يكن الحذاء أباه تجد نعلاه
Whoever has shoes as his father, you will find his shoes.
أطري فإنك ناعلة
Praise yourself, for you are a shoe-wearer.
انتعل المطي ظلالها: إذا عقل الظل نصف النهار
The mounts intaʿala their shadows: if the shadow is tied at noon.
وانتعل الظل فكان جوربا
And the shadow intaʿala and became a sock.
ودية منعلة، كمكرمة: قطعت من أمها بكربة
A young camel munʿalah, like mukramah: cut from its mother with a rope.
رم વિશે بالمنعلات، أي: الدواهي
He was struck by al-munʿalāt, meaning: calamities.
اللاتي تذله وتجعله كالنعل لعدوه
Which humiliate him and make him like a shoe to his enemy.
انتعل الثوب وتنعله: وطئه
Intaʿala the garment and tanaʿʿalahu: to tread upon it.
وكن يراكلن المروط نواعما ... يمشين وسط الدار في كل منعل
And they used to drag their cloaks softly... walking in the middle of the house in every long garment.
أراد: في كل مرط طويل تطؤه المرأة فيصير لها نعلا
He meant: in every long cloak that a woman treads upon, making it like a shoe for her.
نعلة الرجل: زوجته
The naʿlah of a man: his wife.
شر قرين للكبير نعلته
The worst companion for an old man is his wife.
النعلة أن يتناعل القوم بينهم، فإذا نفقت دابة أحدهم جمعوا له ثمنها
Al-naʿlah is when people share among themselves, so if one of them's animal dies, they collect its price for him.
أذل من نعل
More humiliated than a shoe.
انتعل الخف: مثل أنعله
Intaʿala al-khuff: like anʿalahu.
قوم إذا اخضرت نعالهم ... يتناهقون تناهق الحمر
A people, when their shoes (or the ground) become green... they bray like donkeys.
هي نعال الأرض
They are the shoes of the earth.
قوم إذا نبت الربيع لهم ... نبتت عداوتهم مع النعل
A people, when spring grows for them... their enmity grows with the hard ground.
إذا أخصبوا ونبت الربيع اخضرت نعالهم من وطئهم، وأغار بعضهم على بعض
When they prosper and spring grows, their shoes (or the ground they walk on) become green from their treading, and some raid others.