أَخْيَلُ
Root: خيل
Full Definition
def.2 See also خَيَلَآءُ.
def.3 Also Having a خَال, meaning [a thing resembling] a pimple, inclining to blackness, [i. e. a mole,] upon his face: or, as also مَخِيلٌ and and مَخُولٌ, like مَقُولٌ, this last belonging to art. خول, as خَالٌ, whence it is derived, does in one dial., A man having [or marked with] many خِيلَان [or moles upon his person]: fem. [of the first] خَيْلَآءُ.
def.4 الأَخَيْلُ, when indeterminate, [أَخَيْلٌ or أَخَيْلُ,] perfectly decl., [thus] used as a subst., but some make it imperfectly decl. both when determinate and when indeterminate, and assert it to be originally an epithet, from التَّخَيُّلُ, [though accord. to others it seems to be from أَخْيَلُ as meaning “ having many moles, ”] A certain bird, regarded as of evil omen, that alights upon the rump of the camel, and is app. for that reason held to be of evil omen; (TA; [see مَخْيُولٌ;]) [applied in the present day to the green wood-pecker, picus viridis;] the صُرَد [q. v.]: or the green صُرَد: or the شِقِرَّاق [a name likewise now applied to the green wood-pecker, and to the common roller, coracias garrula]: so called because upon its wings are colours differing from its general colour: or so called because diversified with black and white: or the شَاهِين [q. v., a species of falcon]: pl. أَخَايِلُ, or خِيلٌ.
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