sakhla

lamb

سَخْلَة

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْلَة

Root

س خ ل

Forms

Plural
سِخال

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 9 entries
  • سَخَلَهُمْ Form I He drove away, repelled, or banished, them
    , aor. , (K,) inf. n. سَخْلٌ, (TA,) He drove away, repelled, or banished, them: (K, TA: [in the CK, نَقّاهُمْ is erroneously put for نَفَاهُمْ:]) and خَسَِلَهُمْ signifies the same. (TA.) ― -b2- And سَخَلَ الشَّىْءَ He took the thing by deceit (K, TA) and by seizure: but not known to Az except on the authority of Lth; and its correctness is doubted by him, unless it be formed by transposition from خَلَسَ, like as they said جَذَبَ and جَبَذَ, and بَضَّ and ضَبَّ. (TA.)
  • سخّلت النَّخْلَةُ Form II The palmtree bore dates such as are termed
    , inf. n. تَسْخِيلٌ, The palmtree bore dates such as are termed [سُخَّل, i. e.] شِيص: (S, TA:) so in the dial. of El-Hijáz: (TA:) or it was weak in its date-stones and its dates: or it shook off its dates. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And سخّل, (K,) or سخّل النَّخْلَةَ, (TA,) said of a man, He shook the palm-tree in order that its dates might fall off. (K, TA.) -A2- And سخّلهُ, (S,) or سخّلهُمْ, inf. n. as above, (K,) He attributed, or imputed, to him, or them, a vice, fault, or defect, (S, K, TA,) and reckoned him, or them, weak: of the dial. of Hudheyl. (S, TA.)
  • اسخلهُ Form IV kept him, or held him, back; delayed him, or retarded him
    It (an affair, or event, TA) kept him, or held him, back; delayed him, or retarded him. (K, TA.)
  • سَخْلٌ An infant that is an object of love to his parents
    : see سَخْلَةٌ. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) An infant that is an object of love to his parents: (IAar, O, TA:) originally, the “ offspring of the sheep or goat ” [app. as a sing. as well as a coll. gen. n.]. (TA.) ― -b3- See also سُخَّلٌ, in two places.
  • سَخْلَةٌ A lamb, or kid, in whatever state it be
    A lamb, or kid, in whatever state it be; (K;) male or female: (TA:) or a lamb, or kid, when just born; male or female: (S, M, O, Msb, K:) or, accord. to some, peculiarly applied to a lamb; and this is affirmed by 'Iyád and Er-Ráfi'ee: accord. to some, peculiarly to a kid; and so affirms IAth: (TA:) [see also بَهْمٌ, in three places:] pl. ↓ سَخْلٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.] like as تَمْرٌ is of تَمْرَةٌ, (Msb,) [and is app. also used as a sing., (see the next preceding paragraph,)] and [the pl. properly so termed is] سِخَالٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and سِخَلَةٌ, which is extr. [as a pl. form, so much so that Sb holds it to be a quasi-pl. measure, not a broken pl. measure, as is said in the TA voce جِبَأَةٌ]. (K.)
  • سُخَّلٌ Weak
    (Az, S, O, K) and ↓ سُخَّالٌ, (Az, O, K,) applied to men, Weak; (S, O, K;) bad, vile, or base; (K;) or low, ignoble, mean, or sordid: (Az, O:) a pl. having no sing.: (Az, S, O:) or its sing. is ↓ سَخْلٌ: (K, TA: in the CK سُخَّلٌ [like the former pl.]:) so says Khálid. (IJ, TA.) ― -b2- Also سُخَّلٌ, (CK,) or ↓ سَخْلٌ, (TK,) [in the TA without any syll. signs,] Anything not completed. (IJ, K.) ― -b3- Also the former, (S, O, K,) in the dial. of the people of El-Medeeneh, (S, O,) The sort of dates termed شِيص, (S, O, K,) i. e. of which the stones do not become hard: (TA:) or, accord. to 'Eesà Ibn-'Omar, dates of which two or three grow together in one place, intermingling. (O, TA.)
  • سُخَالَةٌ Refuse
    Refuse; syn. نُفَايَةٌ. (JK, O, K, TA: in the CK نُقايَة.)
  • سُخَّالٌ Open entry
    : see سُخَّلٌ.
  • مَسخُولٌ Pronounced to be low, base, vile, mean, or contemptible
    Pronounced to be low, base, vile, mean, or contemptible: (K:) like مَخْسُولٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Unknown: (S, O, K:) and so مَخْسُولٌ. (O.) A poet says, " تُرَى فِى السَّمَآءِ وَلَا تُعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ كَوَاكِبُ مَسْخُولَةٌ " [And ye are stars unknown, that are seen in the sky but not known]: or, as some relate it, مَخْسُولَةٌ. (S, O.)

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