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آكل

Root: اكل

Form: 4

Full Definition

آكلIV , [Verbal.Noun إِيكَالٌ,] said of the palm-tree, and of seed-produce, and of anything, It had ripe fruit; it supplied food.
2 آكلهُ الشَّىْءَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He gave him to eat the thing; he fed him with the thing.
3 See also 2, in two places.
4 آكل النَّارَ He fed, or supplied, the fire with fuel.
5 آكل بَيْنَ النَّاسِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He busied himself among the people with propagating calumnies: or he created, or excited, disagreement, dissension, or strife, among them; or made, or did, mischief among them: or he incited them, one against another.
6 آكَلْتُكَ فُلَانًا, or آكَلَ فُلَانٌ فُلانًا, (K, [in the CK, erroneously, فُلَانٌ فُلَانًا,]) I made thee, or he made such a one, to have dominion, or authority, or power, over such a one.


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