اشعل

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اشعلIV ; and , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun شَعْلٌ; and [in an intensive sense] شعّلها , Verbal.Noun تَشْعِيلٌ; He kindled the fire; or made it to burn up, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame; syn. أَضْرَمَهَا, or أَوْقَدَهَا, or أَلْهَيَهَا; فِى الحَطَبِ [in the firewood].
2 [Hence,] one says also, أَشْعَلْتُ الحَرْبَ [I kindled war, or the war; or made it to burn fiercely, or to rage]; and ; mentioned by Abu-l-'Alà. 'Amr Ibn-El-Itnábeh says, لَيْسُوا بِأَنْكَاسٍ وَلَا مِيلٍ إِذَا مَا الحَرْبُ شُبَّتْ أَشْعَلُوا They are not persons in whom is no good, nor such as are not firm on their horses: [when war is kindled,] they make to burn fiercely, and excite, that which is slightly burning: such may be the meaning; for it may be that the ب in بالشاعل is pleonastically inserted, and الشاعل may mean as above: or بالشاعل may mean by him who makes it to burn fiercely, [as is implied in the S and O,] or by that which does so.
3 And أَشْعَلْتُهُ غَضَبًا I excited him, or inflamed him, with anger.
4 And اشعل إِبِلَهُ بِالقَطِرَانِ He smeared his camels much with tar; [which has a burning effect;] smearing them generally, and not merely the scattered scabs exclusively of the other parts of the body.
5 And اشعل الخَيْلَ فِى الغَارَةِ He spread, or dispersed, the horsemen in the hostile, or predatory, incursion: and [in like manner] one says اشعلوا الغَارَةَ [They spread, or dispersed, themselves, or their horsemen, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]. (S and K in art. شعو.) And أَشْعَلْتُ جَمْعَهُمْ I dispersed or scattered, their congregation. And اشعل الإِبِلَ He dispersed the camels.
6 And اشعل السَّقْىَ He made [the water-ing or] the water [of the irrigation] abundant.

def.2 أَشْعَلَتِ الغَارَةُ The horsemen making a hostile, or predatory, incursion became dispersed, or dispersed themselves.
2 اشعلت الطَّعْنَةُ The spear-wound, or the like, emitted its blood in a scattered state. And اشعلت القِرْبَةُ, and المَزَادَةُ, The water-skin, and the leathern water-bag, shed its water in a scattered state. And اشعلت العَيْنُ The eye shed its tears copiously.
3 See also 1, last sentence.

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