مِظَلَّةٌ
Root: ظل
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مِظَلَّةٌ
and مَظَلَّةٌ, the former with kesr to the م as an instrumental noun, [and the latter with fet-h as a noun of place,] A large tent of [goats'] hair; more ample than the
خِبَآء; so says El-Fárábee: one of the kinds of tents of the Arabs of the desert, the largest of the tents of [goats'] hair; next after which is the وَسُوط; and then, the خِبَآء, which is the smallest of the tents of [goats'] hair; so says AZ: but Aboo-Málik says that the مظلّة and the خبآء are small and large: IAar says that the خَيْمَة is of poles roofed with [the panic grass called] ثَمَام, and is not of cloths; but the مظلّة is of cloths: or it is of the tents called
أَخْبِيَة; such as is large, of the
أَخْبِيَة; and it is said to be only of cloths; and it is large, having a
رِوَاق [q. v.]; but sometimes it is of one oblong piece of cloth (شُقَّة), and of two such pieces, and of three; and sometimes it has a
كِفَآء, which is its hinder part: or, accord. to Th, it is peculiarly of [goats'] hair: see also ظُلَّةٌ, and ظُلْظُلٌ: the pl. is مَظَالُّ; and مَظَالِ or مَظَالِى occurs at the end of a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abee-'Áïdh El-Hudhalee, for مَظَالِّ; the [latter] ل being either elided, or changed into ى. ظُلَّةٌ عِلَّةٌ مَا عِلَّةُ أَوْتَادٍ وَأَخِلَّةٍ وَعَمَدِ المِظَلَّةِ اُبْرُزُوا لِصِهْرِكُمْ [A pretext: what is the pretext of tentpegs, and of pins for fastening together the edges of the pieces of the tent-cloth, and of the poles of the large tent? go ye forth: he who has married among you has a tent for shade from the sun:] is a prov., and was said by a girl who had been married to a man, and whose family delayed to conduct her to her husband, urging in excuse that they had not the apparatus of the tent: she said this to urge them, and to put a stop to their excuse: and the prov. is applied in attributing untruth to pretexts.
2 Hence, as being likened thereto,
3 And The thing [i. e. umbrella] by means of which kings are shaded on the occasion of their riding; called in Pers. چَتْر.
2 Hence, as being likened thereto,
3 And The thing [i. e. umbrella] by means of which kings are shaded on the occasion of their riding; called in Pers. چَتْر.
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