عَاقُولٌ
Root: عقل
Full Definition
def.2 Also A bent portion, or place of bending, of a river, and of a valley, and of sand: pl. عَوَاقِيلُ: or the عَوَاقِيل of valleys are the angles, in the places of bending, thereof; and the sing. is عَاقُولٌ.
2 And The main of the sea: or the waves thereof.
3 And A land in which one will not find the right way, because of its many places of winding.
4 [Hence,] عَوَاقِيلُ الأُمُورِ What are confused and dubious of affairs.
5 And [hence] one says, إِنَّهُ لَذُو عَوَاقِيلَ, meaning Verily he is an author, or a doer, of evil.
def.3 Also A certain plant, well known, not mentioned by AHn in the Book of Plants; [the prickly hedysarum; hedysarum alhagi of Linn.; common in Egypt, and there called by this name; fully described by Forskål in his Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. 136;] it has thorns; camels pasture upon it; and [hence] it is called شَوْكُ الجِمَالِ; it grows upon the dykes and the تُرَع [or canals for irrigation]; and has a violetcoloured flower. [See also تَرَنْجُبِينٌ; and see حَاجٌ, in art. حيج.]
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