usṭūl

fleet, squadron

أُسْطُول

Word

Noun · pattern أُفْعُول

Root

س ط ل

Forms

Plural
أَساطِيل

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ثم تراجعت عن ذلك قوة المسلمين في الأساطيل لضعف الدولة ونسيان عوائد البحر، بكثرة العوائد البدوية بالمغرب وانقطاع العوائد الأندلسية.

The Muqaddimah, page 15 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 9 entries
  • سَطَلَهُ Form I It intoxicated him
    , inf. n. سَطْلٌ, said of a medicine, It intoxicated him: but it is a vulgar word. (TA.) ― -b2- [And hence, (assumed tropical:) He, or it, charmed, or fascinated, or delighted, him.]
  • اِنْسِطَالٌ Form VII A state of intoxication
    A state of intoxication produced by the حَشِيش [or herb, or perhaps species of hemp,] known by the name of زيه; as also ↓ اِسْتِطَالٌ. (De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., i. 282; from the book entitled كتاب الكواكب السايأرة فى اخبار مصر والقاهرة.) [Both app. post-classical: see 1, of which each is quasi-pass.]
  • اِسْتِطَالٌ Form VIII Open entry
    : see what next precedes.
  • جَآءَ يَتَسَيْطَلُ He came alone, having nothing with him
    He came alone, having nothing with him. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)
  • سَطْلٌ small vessel of the kind called طَسّ, or طَسْت
    A طُسَيْسَة [or small vessel of the kind called طَسّ, or طَسْت, q. v.], (M, K,) like the تَوْر [q. v.], (M,) having a loop-shaped handle, (M, K,) like that of the مِرْجَل; (TA;) well known: (S, Msb:) a genuine Arabic word: (M:) or an arabicized word: [said by Golius to be in Pers. سَطَلٌ:] and صَطْلٌ is a dial. var. thereof: (Msb:) a vessel of copper, a large [vessel of the kind called] طَاس [q. v.], for the hot bath; (MA;) the thing [i. e. vessel] in which water is drawn from the hot bath: (KL:) [in the present day applied to a kind of pail, of tinned copper, which the women take with them to the hot bath, containing the water that they require for washing after the other operations of the bath; and also used for various other purposes; as also ↓ سَطْلَةٌ:] and ↓ سَيْطَلٌ signifies the same: (S, M, K, KL:) or this last signifies, (K,) or signifies also, (M,) a [vessel of the kind called] طَسْت; (M, K;) not the well-known [vessel called] سَطْل: (K:) the pl. [of mult.] of سَطْلٌ is سُطُولٌ (M, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَسْطَالٌ. (Msb.)
  • سَطْلَةٌ Open entry
    : see the next preceding paragraph.
  • سَاطِلٌ rising, or rising high
    Dust rising, or rising high; as also طَاسِلٌ. (K.)
  • سَيْطَلٌ tall
    : see سَطْلٌ. -A2- Also A tall man: (K:) or سَيْطَلٌ نَيْطَلٌ a man tall, or long, in body. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)
  • أُسْطُولٌ A ship of war, prepared for fighting with. the unbelievers on the sea
    A ship of war, prepared for fighting with. the unbelievers on the sea: mentioned by El-Makreezee in the “ Khitat; ” and he says, “ I do not think this word to be [genuine] Arabic: ” (TA:) [it is evidently from the Greek στόλος:] several writers mention it among arabicized words. (MF, TA.)

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