شَلَّتْ

Root: شل

Form: 1

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شَلَّتْI , or يَدُهُ, or اليَدُ, originally شَلِلَتْ, Present.T تَشَلُّ, Verbal.Noun شَلَلٌ and شَلٌّ, or the latter is not allowable; this is the chaste form of the verb; and ; and شُلَّتْ, but this last is bad, and is disallowed by Fr; His right hand or arm, or his hand or arm, or the hand or arm, was, or became, unsound, or vitiated: or deprived of the power of motion by an unsound, or a vitiated, state of its عُرُوق [meaning veins or nerves]: or dried up; or stiff: or it went [or wasted] away. One says, in praying for a person, لَا تَشْلَلْ يَدُكَ [May thy hand, or arm, not become unsound, &c.]: and لَا شَلَلًا and لَا , which mean the same; the last word like قَطَامِ. And شَلَّ عَشْرُهُ, and خَمْسُهُ, [His ten fingers became unsound, &c., and his five fingers,] and some say شَلَّتْ, but this is more rare; i. e., the suppression of the fem. ت is more usual in a case of this kind. To one who has shot or thrown, or who has pierced or thrust, well, one says, لَا شَلَلًا وَلَا عَمًى [Mayest thou not experience unsoundness, &c., nor blindness]; and لَا شَلَّ عَشْرُكَ [May thy ten fingers not become unsound, &c.], meaning أَصَابِعُكَ. He who says شَلَّ المَارِنُ and شَلَّتِ الأُذُنُ is a foreigner. The lawyers [improperly] use الشَّلَل in relation to the ذَكَر. One says also, شَلِلْتَ يَا رَجُلُ [Thou hast become unsound, &c., in thy hand or thine arm, O man]. And لَا شَلَلَ, meaning لَا تَشْلَلْ, because it occupies the place of an imperative. In the saying of the rájiz, namely, Abu-l-Khudree El-Yarboo'ee, مُهْرَ أَبِى الجَبْحَابِ لَا تَشَلِّى [Colt of Abu-l-Habháb, mayest thou not become unsound, &c., in the fore leg], (S, TA, [in the O, ابى الحَرِثِ, for ابى الحٰرِثِ,]) the last word is thus [for لا تَشْلَلْ] on account of the rhyme: [for] the next hemistich is بَارَكَ فِيكَ ٱللّٰهُ مِنْ ذِى أَلِّ [God bless thee as one possessing fleetness, or swiftness]; ذى الّ in this instance meaning ذى سُرْعَةٍ. (S in art. ال.)

def.2 شَلَّهُ; and شَلَلْتُ الإِبِلَ, and الرَّجُلَ; Present.T شَلُلَ Verbal.Noun شَلٌّ and شَلَلٌ, like as قَصَصٌ is Verbal.Noun of قَصَّ, or شَلَلٌ is a simple subst.; He drove him away; and I drove away the camels, and the man. And مَرَّ فُلَانٌ يَشُلُّهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ Such a one passed along urging them on, and driving them, with the sword. [See also 4.
2 Hence,] الصُّبْحُ يَشُلُّ الظَّلَامَ The dawn drives away the darkness.
3 And شَلَّتِ العَيْنُ دَمْعَهَا The eye sent forth [or shed] its tears: like شَنَّتْهُ: asserted by Yaa- koob to be formed by substitution [of ل for ن].
4 And شَلَّ الدِّرْعَ, and شَلَّهَا عَلَيْهِ, Present.T شَلُلَ Verbal.Noun شَلٌّ, He put on himself the coat of mail; on the authority of ISh.
5 شَلَلْتُ الثَّوْبَ, Verbal.Noun شَلٌّ, I sewed the garment, or piece of cloth, slightly; [previously to the second sewing termed الكَفُّ;] strangely omitted in the K: شِلَالَةٌ is [app. a subst., not an Verbal.Noun, signifying The act, or art, of so sewing;] the contr. of كِفَافَةٌ.

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