إِبَّوْلٌ
Root: ابل
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إِبَّوْلٌ
, like عِجَّوْلٌ, (S, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, عَجُول,]) A separate, or distinct, portion of a number of birds, and of horses, and of camels, and of such following one another; as also
and
إِبَّالَةٌ , and
إِبَالَةٌ , and
إِيْبَالٌ : or it signifies a bird separating itself from the row of other birds; accord. to IAar. It is said to be the sing. of
أَبَابِيلٌ : Ks says, I used to hear the grammarians say that this latter has for its sing. إِبَّوْلٌ, like عِجَّوْلٌ, of which the pl. is عَجَاجِيلٌ: or its sing. is
; but he who says this adds, I have not found the Arabs to know a sing. to it: or each of these is its sing.; and so is
إِبَّالٌ : or its sing. is
إِبَّالَةٌ , originally signifying “a great bundle:” it is said that this seems to be its sing.; and so
أَبَّالَةٌ : or the sing. may be
, like as دِينَارٌ is sing of دَنَانِيرٌ: or it has no sing., accord. to Fr and Akh and AO, like شَمَاطِيطُ and عَبَادِيدٌ. أَبَابِيلٌ signifies, accord. to some, A company in a state of dispersion: or dispersed companies, one following another: or distinct, or separate, companies, like leaning camels: or companies in a state of dispersion. One says, جَآءَتْ إِبِلُكَ
أَبَابِيلَ
Thy camels came in distinct, or separate, companies. And طَيْرٌ أَبَابِيلُ [in the Kur cv. 3 means Birds in distinct, or separate, flocks or bevies]: [or] birds in companies from this and that quarter: or following one another, flock after flock: or
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