kāḥil

ankle bone

كاحِل

Word

Noun · pattern فاعِل

Root

ك ح ل

Forms

Plural
كَواحِل

In the library

- يذكر الزوزني أن العامل خيره في ميتته فقال: اسقني خمرًا فإذا ثملت فأفصد كاحلي.

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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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