إِكْلَةٌ

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إِكْلَةٌ A mode, or manner, or state, or condition, in which one eats: like جِلْسَةٌ and رِكْبَةٌ: and the posture of the eater, reclining or sitting. You say, إِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ الإِكْلَةِ [Verily he has a good mode, &c., of eating].
2 See also أُكْلَةٌ, last two sentences.
3 The itch: or an itching: as also أُكَالٌ , [see أَكَلَنِى رَأْسِى, of which both are said to be inf. ns.,] and أَكِلَةٌ : so the last is written accord. to the correct copies of the K: accord. to Esh-Shiháb, in the Shifá el-Ghaleel, it would seem to be أُكْلَةٌ; but this is at variance with the authority of the leading lexicologists: the same word, أَكِلَةٌ, is also explained in the K as signifying a disease in a limb, or member, in consequence of which one part is [as it were] eaten by another; [a meaning which I believe to be correct, (see أُكَالٌ,) although SM says,] but this is identical with the itch, or an itching: and أَكَلَانٌ is a vulgar term for the same; and so is آكِلَةٌ , with medd, given as correct by Eth-Tha'álibee, in [his book entitled] the Mudáf and Mensoob, but disallowed by ElKhafájee. One says, إِنِّى لَأَجِدُ فِى جَسَدِى إِكْلَةً [Verily I experience in my body an itching.]

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