فَحْلٌ

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فَحْلٌ a word of well-known meaning, A male of animals of any kind, [including mankind: and particularly a stallion: generally,] a male [or stallion] camel: pl. [of mult.] فُحُولٌ and فِحَالٌ and فُحُولَةٌ and فِحَالَةٌ and [pl. of pauc.] أَفْحُلٌ: and فَحِيلٌ signifies the same as فَحْلٌ; and [particularly] a فَحْل of the camels.
2 Hence الفَحْلُ is an appellation of Canopus (سُهَيْلٌ); because it is aloof from the other stars, like the فحل which, when he has covered, goes aloof from the [she-] camels: or, as some say, it is so called because of its greatness.
3 فَحِيلٌ رَجُلٌ means the same as فَحْلٌ [i. e. A masculine, as opposed to an effeminate, man]. And اِمْرَأَةٌ means A clamorous [or, app., masculine] woman.
4 فُحُولُ الشُّعَرَآءِ is an appellation applied to The poets who have overcome, or who overcome, in satirizing, those who have vied with them therein; like Jereer and El-Farezdak, who used to be called فَحْلَا مُضَرَ: and in like manner any one who, when he vies with a poet, is judged to have excelled him [is called a فَحْل]; (K, TA; [for فَضَلَ in the CK, I read فُضِّلَ, as in other copies of the K;]) like 'Alkameh Ibn-'Abadeh; who was surnamed الفَحْلُ because he took to wife Umm-Jundab when Imrael-Keys divorced her on the occasion of her judging him [i. e. 'Alkameh] to have overcome him [Imra-el-Keys] in poetry.
5 فَحْلٌ also means [app. A vigorous orator: see هَادِرٌ.
6 And] A relater, reciter, or rehearser, by heart, [of poetry, and of traditions, or narratives learned, or heard, or received, from another or others;] syn. رَاوٍ: pl. فُحُولٌ: so in the M.
7 See also فُحَّالٌ, in three places. And see مُتَفَحِّلٌ.
8 And A mat that is made of the woven leaves of the palm-tree thus called, i. e., of the palm-tree called فُحَّال: pl. فُحُولٌ.
9 And Rain is thus called [in a verse of Et-Tirimmáh Ibn-El-Hakeem, being likened to the stallion-camel, because of its fertilizing the earth].

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