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ثَيْتَلٌ

Root: ثتل

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ثَيْتَلٌ The وَعِل [or mountain-goat], as a general term: [in the present day, but vulgarly pronounced تَيْتَل, applied to the wild goat of the Arabian and Egyptian deserts and mountains; the capra jaela of Hamilton Smith; called by some an ibex; as is also بَدَن:] or an old وعل: or the male of the أَرْوَى: En-Nadr says that it has small horns: Aboo-Kheyreh, that it is of the وُعُول, does not quit the mountain, and its horns have branches: he says that the وعول are dusky, or dingy, or of a hue inclining to black and dust-colour, with whiteness in their lower parts; and the ثَيَاتِل [pl. of ثَيْتَل] are like them in their colours, and only distinguished from them by the horns; the وعل having long horns, which extend backwards until they meet over his tail: also a species of [the bovine antelope called] بَقَرُ الوَحْشِ, that abides in the mountains.
2 A man who sits with women.
3 Incapable of going in to women; or not desirous of women.
4 A bulky, or corpulent, man, in whom one thinks there is good when there is no good in him: but, as mentioned by As, it is تيتل.
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