مِرْجَلٌ
Root: رجل
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مِرْجَلٌ
A copper cooking-pot: or a large copper cooking-pot: or a cooking-pot of stones [or stone], and of copper: or any cooking-pot or vessel in which one cooks: of the masc. gender: pl. مَرَاجِلُ.
2 And A comb.
3 Also, and مَرْجَلٌ , the latter on the authority of IAar alone, A sort of [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, of the fabric of El-Yemen: pl. as above, مَرَاجِلُ; with which مَرَاحِل, occurring in a trad., is said in the T, in art. رحل, to be syn.: [and بُرْدٌ مِرْجَلِىٌّ signifies the same as مِرْجَلٌ:] it is said in a prov.,
2 And A comb.
3 Also, and مَرْجَلٌ , the latter on the authority of IAar alone, A sort of [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, of the fabric of El-Yemen: pl. as above, مَرَاجِلُ; with which مَرَاحِل, occurring in a trad., is said in the T, in art. رحل, to be syn.: [and بُرْدٌ مِرْجَلِىٌّ signifies the same as مِرْجَلٌ:] it is said in a prov.,
[Recently thy بُرْد was of the sort called مِرْجَلِىّ;] i. e. thou hast only recently been clad with the مَرَاجِل, and usedst to wear the عَبَآء: [whence it appears that the مِرْجَل may be thus called because worn only by full-grown men:] so says IAar: it is said in the M that ثَوْبٌ مِرْجَلِىٌّ is from الممرجل [i. e. المُمَرْجَلُ, perhaps a mistranscription for المَرْجَلُ]: [but] مُمَرْجَلٌ signifies a sort of garments, or cloths, variegated, or figured; (S and K in art. مرجل;) similar to the مَرَاجِل, or similar to these in their variegation or decoration, or their figured forms; as explained by Seer and others; [wherefore] Sb holds the م of مَرَاجِلُ to be an essential part of the word; and hence Seer and the generality of authors also say that it is a radical, though Abu-l-'Alà and some others hold it to be augmentative.حَدِيثًا كَانَ بُرْدُكَ مِرْجَلِيَّا
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