اشكل
Root: شكل
Form: 4
Full Definition
اشكلIV
[primarily] signifies صَارَ ذَا شَكْلٍ [meaning It, or he, was, or became, such as had a likeness or resemblance, or a like, or match, &c.].
2 [And hence, app.,] said of a thing, or case, or an affair; as also شَكَلَ , (O, K, TA, [in the CK, erroneously, شَكِلَ, evidently not meant by the author of the K, as it is his rule, after mentioning a verb of this form, to add كَفَرِحَ or the like,]) Verbal.Noun شَكْلٌ; and شكّل , Verbal.Noun تَشْكِيلٌ;
3 It is also said of a disease; [app. as meaning
4 اشكل النَّخْلُ The palm-trees became in that state in which their dates were sweet and ripe, or nearly ripe; and تشكّل signifies the same.
5 And اشكلت العَيْنُ The eye had in it what is termed شُكْلَةٌ [q. v.: see also شَكَلٌ].
def.2 اشكل الكِتَابَ: see 1.
2 [And hence, app.,] said of a thing, or case, or an affair; as also شَكَلَ , (O, K, TA, [in the CK, erroneously, شَكِلَ, evidently not meant by the author of the K, as it is his rule, after mentioning a verb of this form, to add كَفَرِحَ or the like,]) Verbal.Noun شَكْلٌ; and شكّل , Verbal.Noun تَشْكِيلٌ;
3 It is also said of a disease; [app. as meaning
4 اشكل النَّخْلُ The palm-trees became in that state in which their dates were sweet and ripe, or nearly ripe; and تشكّل signifies the same.
5 And اشكلت العَيْنُ The eye had in it what is termed شُكْلَةٌ [q. v.: see also شَكَلٌ].
def.2 اشكل الكِتَابَ: see 1.
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