صَالَ
Root: صول
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 صال, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun صَوْلٌ, is also said of a stallion [camel], meaning He leaped, or sprang: or, accord. to AZ, صال, Verbal.Noun صَوْلٌ and صِيَالٌ, said of a camel, means he leaped, or sprang, upon the [other] camels, and fought them: or one says of a stallion, صال عَلَى الإِبِلِ, Verbal.Noun صَوْلٌ, meaning he fought the [other] camels, and sent them on before: or, accord. to AZ, one says of a camel, or, accord. to Es-Sarakustee, some of the Arabs say of a camel, صَؤُلَ, (S, Msb, [in one of my copies of the S صال, but the former is the right,]) like قَرُبَ, with ء, Verbal.Noun صَألَةٌ, meaning he betook himself to the killing of men, and springing, or rushing, upon them: and without ء in speaking of the act of one adversary, or antagonist, against another: Hamzeh El-Isbahánee says, in his “ Proverbs, ” that صال الجَمَلُ means the camel bit; but he is alone in saying this. One says also, صال العَيْرُ, meaning The he-ass attacked the she-ass: or صال العَيْرُ عَلَى العَانَةِ the heass drove away the she-ass, or the herd of wild she-asses, and attacked her or them, biting her or them with the fore teeth, and kicking her or them with the hind leg or hind legs.
def.2 صال البُرَّ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun صَوْلٌ, He swept away, or cleared, the wheat from the pieces of stick and of rubbish: and الحِنْطَةَ we swept the wheat [well, and so cleared it from rubbish]: the teshdeed denotes intensiveness of meaning: [or تَصْوِيلُ البَيْدَرِ] means the sweeping of the بَيْدَر [or collected wheat or grain, or perhaps the place in which wheat or grain is trodden out], or of the sides thereof (نَوَاحِى البَيْدَرِ [to clear it of rubbish]).
def.3 صِيلَ: see art. صيل.
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