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شَعِيلَةٌ ذ [A lighted wick; i. e.] a wick in which is fire; (S, O, K;) a wick soaked with oil or grease, in which is fire, used for giving light, and not thus called unless kindled with fire: (TA: [see also شُعْلَةٌ:]) or the fire that is kindled in a wick: (K:) pl. شُعُلٌ, like as صُحُفٌ is pl. of صَحِيفَةٌ; (T, S, O, TA;) in the K erroneously said to be ↓ شَعِيلٌ [which, however, may be correct as a coll. gen. n.]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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