اخال
Root: خيل
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 اخال الشَّىْءُ إِلَى الخَيْرِ, and المَكْرُوهِ, The thing exhibited an indication, or indications, of good, and of evil, or what was disliked or hated. [Hence,] اخالت السَّمَآءُ, and أَخْيَلَت: see 2, in the latter part of the paragraph, in four places. And اخالت السَّحَابُ and أَخْيَلَت, or اخالت السَّحَابَةُ: see, again, 2, in the latter part of the paragraph, in three places.
3 And hence, in the opinion of ISd, the she-camel in this case being likened to clouds [giving hope, or showing signs, of rain], اخالت النَّاقَةُ
4 اخالت الأَرْضُ بِالنَّبَاتِ, or, as in the M, ,
def.2 اخال فِيهِ خَالًا مِنَ الخَيْرِ: see 4 in art. خول; and see خَالٌ, below.
2 أَخْيَلْنَا and أَخَلْنَا We watched, or observed, or looked at, a cloud which it was thought would rain, to see where it would rain. And أَخَلْتُ السَّحَابَةُ and أَخْيَلْتُهَا I saw the cloud to be such as gave hope of rain.
def.3 أَخْيَلَ لِلنَّاقَةِ: see 2, in the middle of the paragraph.
def.4 أَخْيَلَ عَنِ القَوْمِ: see 2, last sentence.
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