شَائِلٌ
Root: شول
Full Definition
شَائِلٌ
A she-camel raising her tail, having conceived, or by reason of having conceived, and having no milk whatever: or a she-camel that has conceived, and raises her tail to the stallion as a sign of her having conceived, raising her head therewith, and elevating her nose: the word is without ة because it is an epithet of peculiar application [to a female]: or it is without ة anomalously; for the male also raises his tail: the pl. is شُوَّلٌ and شُيَّلٌ and شِيَّلٌ and شُوَّالٌ. Also, with ة, applied to a mare, as meaning Raising the tail.
2 And شَائِلَةٌ, which is anomalously with ة because it is an epithet denoting an attribute not shared with the female by the male, A she-camel that has passed seven months, or eight, since the period of her bringing forth, or of her becoming pregnant, and whose milk has dried up, (جَفَّ لَبَنُهَا, K, and so in a copy of the S,) or whose milk has become scanty, (خَفَّ لَبَنُهَا, O, and so in another copy of the S,) and her udder drawn up, there remaining in her udder no more than a شَوْل, a third of the quantity of the contents thereof when her bringing forth was recent: she-camels in this case are termed شَوْلٌ , an anomalous pl., [or rather a quasi-pl. n.,] expl. by some as applied to she-camels whose milk has become deficient, which is the case when their young are weaned at the period of the [auroral] rising of سُهَيْل [or Canopus, a period which commenced, in Central Arabia, about the beginning of the era of the Flight, on the 4th of August, O. S.], and they cease not to be thus termed until the stallion is sent among them; the pl. pl. [or pl. of شَوْلٌ] is أَشْوَالٌ; and شَوَائِلُ is a pl. of شَائِلَةٌ meaning [as expl. above, or] a she-camel whose milk has become withdrawn.
3 شَائِلٌ is also applied to Anything that is raised, or drawn up, or withdrawn.
2 And شَائِلَةٌ, which is anomalously with ة because it is an epithet denoting an attribute not shared with the female by the male, A she-camel that has passed seven months, or eight, since the period of her bringing forth, or of her becoming pregnant, and whose milk has dried up, (جَفَّ لَبَنُهَا, K, and so in a copy of the S,) or whose milk has become scanty, (خَفَّ لَبَنُهَا, O, and so in another copy of the S,) and her udder drawn up, there remaining in her udder no more than a شَوْل, a third of the quantity of the contents thereof when her bringing forth was recent: she-camels in this case are termed شَوْلٌ , an anomalous pl., [or rather a quasi-pl. n.,] expl. by some as applied to she-camels whose milk has become deficient, which is the case when their young are weaned at the period of the [auroral] rising of سُهَيْل [or Canopus, a period which commenced, in Central Arabia, about the beginning of the era of the Flight, on the 4th of August, O. S.], and they cease not to be thus termed until the stallion is sent among them; the pl. pl. [or pl. of شَوْلٌ] is أَشْوَالٌ; and شَوَائِلُ is a pl. of شَائِلَةٌ meaning [as expl. above, or] a she-camel whose milk has become withdrawn.
3 شَائِلٌ is also applied to Anything that is raised, or drawn up, or withdrawn.
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