Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَعَلَتِ

Root: شعل

Form: 1

Full Definition

شَعَلَتِI : see 8.
2 [Hence,] شَعَلَتِ الخَيْلُ فِى الغَارَةِ [The horsemen became spread or dispersed, or spread or dispersed themselves, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]; quasi-pass. of أَشْعَلْتُهَا.
3 And شَعَلَ فِيهِ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun شَعْلٌ, He went far in it; namely, an affair.

def.2 شَعَلَ النَّارَ:
2 and الحَرْبَ: see 4.

def.3 شَعِلَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun شَعَلٌ, He had the whiteness termed شَعَلٌ and شُعْلَةٌ [expl. below]; as also اشعالّ , which occurs in poetry with the ا made movent, i. e. اِشْعَأَلَّ , Verbal.Noun اِشْعِيلَالٌ; (TA; [in my copy of the Mgh written اِشْعِلَال;]) or , or this last also, Verbal.Noun اِشعِلَالٌ. Among the faults in the “ Khizánet el-Fik-h ” is , [expl. as meaning The having] a whiteness of the أَشْفَار [or edges of the eyelids].


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