سَرَاوِيل
Root: سرول
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سَرَاوِيل
a Pers. word, originally شَلْوَار, (MA, KL, [in the former loosely expl. by the word إِزَارٌ, and so in the PS,]) of well-known meaning, [Drawers, trousers, or breeches; originally applied to such as are worn under other clothing;] a certain under-garment; [but now applied also to such as are worn externally;] is masc. [and perfectly decl., i. e. with tenween], and fem. [and imperfectly decl., i. e. without tenween]; sometimes masc., but not known to As otherwise than as fem.; accord. to the usage most commonly obtaining, it is imperfectly decl. and fem.: Sb says that it is a sing., and is a foreign, or Pers., word, arabicized; resembling, in their [the Arabs'] language, what is imperfectly decl. [as a pl. of the measure فَعَالِيلُ] when determinate and when indeterminate; but is perfectly decl. when indeterminate; and imperfectly decl. if applied as a proper name to a man, and so is its dim. if so applied, because it is fem. and of more than three letters: or it is imperfectly decl. as a proper name because it is also originally a foreign word; and its dim., سُرَيْيِيل , [for سُرَيْوِيل, the و being changed into ى, as in سَيِّدٌ for سَيْوِدٌ,] is perfectly decl. unless used as a proper name, in which latter case it is imperfectly decl. [for the reason above mentioned or] because it is fem. and determinate: it (i. e. سَرَاوِيل) is made, as a pl., imperfectly decl. when indeterminate by some of the grammarians; and it occurs in poetry imperfectly decl. [when indeterminate]: [but this may be by poetic license:] thus in the saying of Ibn-Mukbil,
[The came as an obstacle intervening in the way to her, or them, the wild bull, as though he were a Persian youth in drawers; one with a pair of horns]: the former [however] is the usual way, [contrary to what has been said on the authority of MF,] though the latter is more valid: the pl. is سَرَاوِيلَاتٌ: Sb says that it has no broken pl., because, if it had, it would be the same as the sing.: or, some say, namely those grammarians who make it imperfectly decl. when indeterminate, holding it to be [originally] an Arabic word, it is a pl. of which the sing. is سِرْوَالَةٌ and سِرْوَالٌ and سِرْوِيلٌ , which is [said to be] the only instance of a word of the measure فَعْوِيلٌ: [this, therefore, confirms the opinion that I hold, that the measure of this word is فِعْلِيلٌ, and that all the words of the present art. are quadriliteral-radical, agreeably with an assertion in the TA that سرل is not genuine Arabic: though it seems that all the lexicographers regardأَتَى دُونَهَا ذَبُّ الرِّيَادِ كَأَنَّهُ فَتًى فَارِسِىٌّ سَرَاوِيلَ رَامِحُ
[Upon him is an under-garment of ignobleness, so that he does not become tenderhearted to one who endeavours to conciliate him]: in the “ Mujarrad, ” سَرَاوِيلُ is made fem., and سِرْوَالٌ masc.: سَرَاوِين is a dial. var.; or syn. with سَرَاوِيل; the ن in the former being asserted by Yaakoob to be a substitute for the ل [in the latter]: and شِرْوَالٌ, with ش, is likewise a dial. var. [of سِرْوَالٌ], mentioned by Es-Sijistánee, on the authority of some one or more of the Arabs: [the common modern pronunciation is شَرْوَال: pl. شَرَاوِيل.]عَلَيْهِ مِنَ اللُّؤْمِ سِرْوَالَةٌ فَلَيْسَ يَرِقُّ لِمُسْتَعْطِفِ
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