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آبِلٌ آبل : see أَبِلٌ, in two places. ― -b2- إِِبِلٌ أَوَابِلٌ, (S, M, K,) and أُبَّلٌ, and أُبَّالٌ, (M,) [all pls. of آبِلٌ or آبِلَةٌ,] and ↓ مُؤَبَّلَةٌ , (M,) Many, or numerous, camels: (S, M, K:) or this, [app. meaning the last,] as some say, put in distinct herds; (M;) and so أُبَّالٌ: (TA:) or gotten, gained, or acquired, for permanent possession: (M:) this last is the meaning of the last of the epithets above. (S, K.) ― -b3- آبِلٌ, applied to a camel, also signifies Content, or satisfied, with green pasture, so as to be in no need of water: pl. أُبَّالٌ: (S, K:) and so أَوَابِلُ, applied to she-camels, (T, * TA,) and to wild animals. (S in art. بل.) ― -b4- And إِِبِلٌ آبِلَةٌ Camels seeking by degrees, or step by step, or bit by bit, after the أُبُل [q. v.], i. e. the خِلْفَة of the herbage or pasture. (TA.) ― -b5- And إِِبِّلٌ أُبَّلٌ Camels left to themselves, (S, M, K, TA,) without a pastor. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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