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جَثْلٌ جثل (AZ, S, Msb, K) and ↓ جَثِيلٌ (K) A thing, (Msb,) or hair, (AZ, S, K,) and (tropical:) trees (شَجَرٌ), (K, TA,) much, or abundant, (AZ, S, Msb, K,) and thick, or abundant, (AZ, S, Msb, K,) and thick, or coarse, or rough, (Msb,) or tangled, or luxuriant and dense, (K,) and soft: (TA:) or thick, or coarse, or rough, and short: or dense and black: (K:) or the blackest hair: or the thickest, or coarsest, or roughest: (Lth, TA:) or anything large, big, or bulky, and dense, and tangled, or luxuriant. (K.) You say لِحْيَةٌ An abundant, thick, or coarse, or rough, beard. (Msb:) or a thick, or dense, beard. (TA.) And نَاصِيَةٌ جَثْلَةٌ A horse's forelock moderate in respect of quantity and length: such is approved. (S.) And شَجَرَةٌ جَثْلَةٌ (tropical:) A many-leaved, big, tree. (S, K, TA.) -A2- جَثْلٌ A species of ant, large and black; as also جَفْلٌ: (IDrd, TA:) or جَثْلَةٌ signifies a black ant: (S:) or a large and: and جَثْلٌ is its pl. [or coll. gen. n.]. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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