أَبِيلٌ

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أَبِيلٌ A Christian monk; so called because of his abstaining (لِتَأَبُلِهِ) from women: or the chief monk: or a derotee: or an old man, or elder: or the chief, or head-man, of the Christians: or the man who calls them to prayer by means of the نَاقُوس; the beater of the ناقوس: as also أَيْبَلِىٌّ , which is either a foreign word, or changed by the relative ى, or of the same class as إِنْقَحْلٌ [in which the first letter as well as th second is augmentative], for Sb says that there is not in the language an instance of the measure فَيْعَلٌ; and , and هَيْبَلِىٌّ, and أَبُلِىٌّ and أَيْبَلٌ , which last is disallowed by Sb for the reason stated above; and like أَيْنُقٌ; and ; the last with fet-h to the hemzeh, and kesr to the ب, and with the [first] ى quiescent; or أَيْبَلِىٌّ [app. a mistranscription for أَيْبِلِىٌّ] is used by poetic licence for أَبِيلِىٌّ , like أَيْنُقٌ for أَنْوُقٌ: pl. آبَالٌ and أُبْلٌ, or أُبُلٌ, [accord. to different copies of the K,] with damm [which indicates that the former is meant, though it is irregular]. By أَبِيلٌ الأَبِيلِينَ is meant 'Eesà [or Jesus], the Messiah.
2 In the Syriac language it signifies Mourning, or sorrowing.

def.2 Also A staff, or stick.
2 See also إِبَالَةٌ.

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