kaḥlāʾ

blueweed

كَحْلاء

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْلاء

Root

ك ح ل

In the library

رخصة الكفين، ناهدة الثديين، حمراء الخدين، كحلاء العينين، زجاء الحاجبين لمياء الشفتين بلجاء الجبين، شماء العرنين، شنباء الثغر، محلولكة الشعر، غيداء العنق، مكسرة البطن.

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 9 entries

كَحَلَ Form I He put out, or blinded

(assumed tropical:) He put out, or blinded, an eye with a heated nail, &c.: see an ex. voce سَمَرَ.
8 Form VIII Open entry

&c.: see أَغْمَضَ. See also حَثاَثٌ.
اِسْتَكْحَلَ السَّهَرَ Form X He became sleepless

(assumed tropical:) [He became sleepless; as though he took sleeplessness as a collyrium]. (TA in art. حلس, from a trad.)
كَحْلٌ A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth

and كَحْلُ (S, K) A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth; (S;) a hard year. (K.)
كُحَيْلٌ A horse of high breed

a proper name for A horse of high breed; as also ↓ كُحَيْلاَنٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- كُحَيْلٌ Tar (قَطِرَان) in the dial. of El-Hijáz. (TA, voce غَرْبٌ; from the T.) See نفْظٌ.
كُحَيْلاَنٌ Open entry

: see كُحَيْلٌ.
عَيْنٌ كَحْلَآءُ An eye that is black

An eye that is black, [or black in the edges of the lids,] by nature, as though it had كُحْل applied to it. (Mgh.) Not in the TA. [It seems to have both of these meanings.]
كَحْلَآءُ A certain plant

A certain plant: see K, voce شِنْجَار: calendula arvensis: see Delile, Flor. Aeg., no. 864.
الأَكْحَلُ The median vein

The median vein. See وَرِيدٌ and أَبْجَلُ and أَبْهَرُ and الصَّافِنُ.

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