أَعْبَلُ
Root: عبل
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أَعْبَلُ
A mountain of which the stones are white: or rough, rugged, or thick, stone, which may be red, and may be white, and may be black, and may be a rugged, high mountain: expl. in the S as meaning white stones; but correctly, as IB says, white stone: and أَعْبِلَةٌ is an irreg. pl. thereof.
2 And [the fem.] عَبْلَآءُ signifies A rock: (K, TA: [in the CK, أَو should be inserted after الصَّخْرَةُ:]) or a white rock: or a white, hard rock: pl. عِبَالٌ, like بِطَاحٌ pl. of بَطْحَآءُ. And A white [hill, or eminence such as is termed] أَكَمَة. And A narrow strip (طَرِيدَةٌ) in the midst of a land, the stones of which are white, resembling the stones from which fire is struck, and sometimes people do strike fire with some of them: they are not what are called مَرْو; [but] resembling بِلَّوْر [i. e. crystal].
2 And [the fem.] عَبْلَآءُ signifies A rock: (K, TA: [in the CK, أَو should be inserted after الصَّخْرَةُ:]) or a white rock: or a white, hard rock: pl. عِبَالٌ, like بِطَاحٌ pl. of بَطْحَآءُ. And A white [hill, or eminence such as is termed] أَكَمَة. And A narrow strip (طَرِيدَةٌ) in the midst of a land, the stones of which are white, resembling the stones from which fire is struck, and sometimes people do strike fire with some of them: they are not what are called مَرْو; [but] resembling بِلَّوْر [i. e. crystal].
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