Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَحْوَلُ

Root: حول

Full Definition

أَحْوَلُ ; and its fem. حَوْلَآءُ: see 1, last sentence.
2 أَحْوَلُ مِنْ بَوْلِ الجَمَلِ [More wry than the urine of the he-camel]: because it does not come forth straight, but [backwards, and] inclining to one side: a prov.
3 هُوَ أَحْوَلُ مِنْكَ He is one who has more حِيلَة [meaning art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs, &c.,] than thou; as also أَحْيَلُ . And هُوَ أَحْيَلُ النَّاسِ [He is the most artful, cunning, ingenious, or skilful, of men]; originally أَحْوَلُ. (MF in art. رود: see أَرْوَدُ.)


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