أَشْكَلُ
Root: شكل
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أَشْكَلُ
More, and most, like; syn. أَشْبَةُ: so in the saying, هٰذَا أَشْكَلُ بِكَذَا [This is more, or most, like to such a thing].
2 Also Of a colour in which whiteness and redness are intermixed; applied to blood; and, accord. to IDrd, a name for blood, because of the redness and whiteness intermixed therein; [and] applied to a man; or to anything: or in which is whiteness inclining to redness and duskiness: or it signifies, with the Arabs, [of] two colours intermixed. [Hence,] it is applied to water, as meaning
3 Applied to a camel, and to a sheep or goat, of which the blackness is mixed with redness, or with dust-colour; as though its colour were dubious to thee: pl. as above, applied to rams &c., in this sense.
4 Applied to a sheep or goat, White in the شَاكِلَة [or flank]: fem. شَكْلَآءُ; applied to a ewe, as meaning white in the شَاكِلَة, the rest of her being black.
def.2 Also The mountain-species of سِدْر [or lote-tree]; described to AHn, by some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, as a sort of trees like the عُنَّاب [or jujube] in its thorns and the crookedness of its branches, but smaller in leaf, and having more branches; very hard, and having a small drupe, (نُبَيْقَة, [dim. of نَبِقَةٌ, n. un. of نَبِقٌ, which means the “ drupes of the سِدْر, ”]) which is very acid: the places of its growth are lofty mountains; and bows are made of it [as is shown by an ex. in the S and O]: [app. with tenween, having a] n. un. with ة: AHn says that the growth of the اشكل is like [that of] the trees called شِرْيَان [of which likewise bows are made].
2 Also Of a colour in which whiteness and redness are intermixed; applied to blood; and, accord. to IDrd, a name for blood, because of the redness and whiteness intermixed therein; [and] applied to a man; or to anything: or in which is whiteness inclining to redness and duskiness: or it signifies, with the Arabs, [of] two colours intermixed. [Hence,] it is applied to water, as meaning
3 Applied to a camel, and to a sheep or goat, of which the blackness is mixed with redness, or with dust-colour; as though its colour were dubious to thee: pl. as above, applied to rams &c., in this sense.
4 Applied to a sheep or goat, White in the شَاكِلَة [or flank]: fem. شَكْلَآءُ; applied to a ewe, as meaning white in the شَاكِلَة, the rest of her being black.
def.2 Also The mountain-species of سِدْر [or lote-tree]; described to AHn, by some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, as a sort of trees like the عُنَّاب [or jujube] in its thorns and the crookedness of its branches, but smaller in leaf, and having more branches; very hard, and having a small drupe, (نُبَيْقَة, [dim. of نَبِقَةٌ, n. un. of نَبِقٌ, which means the “ drupes of the سِدْر, ”]) which is very acid: the places of its growth are lofty mountains; and bows are made of it [as is shown by an ex. in the S and O]: [app. with tenween, having a] n. un. with ة: AHn says that the growth of the اشكل is like [that of] the trees called شِرْيَان [of which likewise bows are made].
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