flare up, catch fire

: see 8. ― -b2- [Hence,] شَعَلَتِ الخَيْلُ فِى الغَارَةِ (assumed tropical:) [The horsemen became spread or dispersed, or spread or dispersed themselves, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]; quasi-pass. of أَشْعَلْتُهَا. (Ham p. 715.) ― -b3- And شَعَلَ فِيهِ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. شَعْلٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He went far in it; (K;) namely, an affair. (TK.) -A2- شَعَلَ النَّارَ: ― -b2- and الحَرْبَ: see 4. -A3- شَعِلَ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. شَعَلٌ, (TA,) He (a horse) had the whiteness termed شَعَلٌ and شُعْلَةٌ [expl. below]; (K;) as also ↓ اشعالّ, (Mgh, K, TA,) which occurs in poetry with the ا made movent, i. e. ↓ اِشْعَأَلَّ, inf. n. اِشْعِيلَالٌ; (TA; [in my copy of the Mgh written اِشْعِلَال;]) or ↓ اشعلّ, (S,) or this last also, (TA,) inf. n. اِشعِلَالٌ. (S, TA.) Among the faults in the “ Khizánet el-Fik-h ” is ↓ الإِشْعَالُ, [expl. as meaning The having] a whiteness of the أَشْفَار [or edges of the eyelids]. (Mgh.)

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; (AZ, S, O, Msb, K;) and ↓ شَعَلَهَا, (AZ, O, Msb, K,) aor. , inf. n. شَعْلٌ; (TA;) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ شعّلها, (K,) inf. n. تَشْعِيلٌ; (TA;) He kindled the fire; or made it to burn up, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame; syn. أَضْرَمَهَا, (S, O, TA,) or أَوْقَدَهَا, (Msb, by implication,) or أَلْهَيَهَا; (K, TA;) فِى الحَطَبِ [in the firewood]. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says also, أَشْعَلْتُ الحَرْبَ (assumed tropical:) [I kindled war, or the war; or made it to burn fiercely, or to rage]; and ↓ شَعَلْتُهَا; mentioned by Abu-l-'Alà. (Ham p. 715.) 'Amr Ibn-El-Itnábeh says, " لَيْسُوا بِأَنْكَاسٍ وَلَا مِيلٍ إِذَا ↓ مَا الحَرْبُ شُبَّتْ أَشْعَلُوا بِالشَّاعِلِ " (S, O, and Ham ubi suprà,) (assumed tropical:) They are not persons in whom is no good, nor such as are not firm on their horses: [when war is kindled,] they make to burn fiercely, and excite, that which is slightly burning: such may be the meaning; for it may be that the ب in بالشاعل is pleonastically inserted, and الشاعل may mean as above: or بالشاعل may mean by him who makes it to burn fiercely, [as is implied in the S and O,] or by that which does so. (Ham.) ― -b3- And أَشْعَلْتُهُ غَضَبًا (O, TA, and Ham p. 194) (tropical:) I excited him, or inflamed him, with anger. (TA.) ― -b4- And اشعل إِبِلَهُ بِالقَطِرَانِ (assumed tropical:) He smeared his camels much with tar; (S, O, K, TA;) [which has a burning effect;] smearing them generally, and not merely the scattered scabs exclusively of the other parts of the body. (TA.) ― -b5- And اشعل الخَيْلَ فِى الغَارَةِ (tropical:) He spread, or dispersed, the horsemen in the hostile, or predatory, incursion: (O, K, TA:) and [in like manner] one says اشعلوا الغَارَةَ (assumed tropical:) [They spread, or dispersed, themselves, or their horsemen, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]. (S and K in art. شعو.) And أَشْعَلْتُ جَمْعَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) I dispersed or scattered, their congregation. (O, TA.) And اشعل الإِبِلَ (assumed tropical:) He dispersed the camels. (Lh, K, (TA.) ― -b6- And اشعل السَّقْىَ (assumed tropical:) He made [the water-ing or] the water [of the irrigation] abundant. (IAar, K, TA.) -A2- أَشْعَلَتِ الغَارَةُ (assumed tropical:) The horsemen making a hostile, or predatory, incursion became dispersed, or dispersed themselves. (S, K.) ― -b2- اشعلت الطَّعْنَةُ (assumed tropical:) The spear-wound, or the like, emitted its blood in a scattered state. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) And اشعلت القِرْبَةُ, and المَزَادَةُ, (assumed tropical:) The water-skin, and the leathern water-bag, shed its water in a scattered state. (S, K.) And اشعلت العَيْنُ (assumed tropical:) The eye shed its tears copiously. (O, K.) ― -b3- See also 1, last sentence.

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; (Lh, S, O, Msb, K, TA;) and ↓ شَعَلَت, aor. ; (Msb;) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ تشعّلت; (K, TA;) The fire became kindled; or it burned up, burned brightly or fiercely, blazed, or flamed; syn. تَأَجَّجَت, (Lh, TA,) or اِضْطَرَمَت, (S, O, TA,) or تَوَقَّدَت, (Msb,) and اِلْتَهَبَت; (K, * TA;) فِى الحَطَبِ [in the firewood]. (Lh, TA.) ― -b2- Hence, اِشْتَعَلَ غَضَبًا (tropical:) He became excited, or inflamed, with anger: (TA:) or he became filled with wrath. (Msb.) ― -b3- Hence also, اشتعل الشَّيْبُ فِى الرَّأْسِ (tropical:) Whiteness of the hair became glistening in the head; including the hair of the beard. (TA.) And اشتعل الرَّأْسَ شَيْبًا [in the Kur xix. 3, expl. in art. شيب]. (S, Msb.)

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see 1. ― -b2- اشعالّ رَأْسُهُ, (O, K,) inf. n. اِشْعِيلَالٌ, (TA,) His hair became separated, or loosened, and ruffled, or bristling up. (O, K.)

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(assumed tropical:) A man light, agile, or active, and clever, ingenious, acute, or sharp: (O, K:) and so مَعْلٌ. (O, TA.)

[inf. n. of شَعِلَ (q. v.)] and ↓ شُعْلَةٌ [properly a subst. as distinguished from an inf. n.] (assumed tropical:) A whiteness in the tail of a horse, and the forelock, and the قَذَال [or place where the عِذَار, i. e. each of the two cheek-straps of the headstall, is tied, behind the forelock]: (K:) or in some part of the forelock; or, as some say, in a side thereof: and sometimes in the قذال: but mostly in the tail: (TA:) or the former signifies a whiteness in the extremity of the tail of a horse: or, accord. to Lth, a whiteness in the forelock and the tail: or, as some say, in the head and the forelock: [or the quality of having such whiteness: for it is added that] the subst. [app. signifying such whiteness itself] is ↓ شُعْلَةٌ: (Mgh:) or the former, a whiteness in the side of the tail: [or,] accord. to As, ↓ شُعْلَةٌ is a term applied to a whiteness of the tail when it intermixes with any other colour; and the horse is said to be بَيِّنُ الشَّعَلِ [i. e. one that exhibits the quality of having such whiteness]. (S.)

A firebrand; a piece of wood in which fire is kindled; (Az, K, * TA;) like جِذْوَةٌ and قَيَسٌ and شِهَابٌ: (Az, TA:) [this is what is meant by its being said that] what is termed شُعْلَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ [the only indication of the meaning in the S and O] is well known: (Msb:) pl. شُعَلٌ; (S, O, TA;) erroneously said in the K to be like كُتُبٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] one says, فُلَانٌ شُعْلَةُ نَارٍ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one is a firebrand]. (Er-Rághib, TA voce ذَكَآءٌ, q. v.) ― -b2- And [A lighted wick: so in the present day: (see also شَعِيلَةٌ:) or] the burnt [or lighted] extremity of a wick. (S voce قِرَاطٌ. [And the same meaning is intended there in the K; and also in the TA voce جِذْوَةٌ.]) ― -b3- And The flame of fire; as also ↓ شُعْلُولٌ. (K, * TA. [In the CK شُعُول; as though it were a second pl. of شُعْلَةٌ.]) ― -b4- And شُعْلَةُ, (O, K, TA,) without ال, (K, TA,) is the name of A mare of Keys Ibn-Sebáa; (O, K, TA;) likened to the kindling of fire, because of her swiftness. (TA.) ― -b5- See also شَعَلٌ, in three places.

: see the next preceding paragraph. -A2- Also A party, division, sect, or distinct body or class, of men &c. (TA.) [See شَعَالِيلُ, below.]