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آلَةٌ آله آلة i. q. أَدَاةٌ [i. e. An instrument; a tool; an implement; a utensil: and instruments; tools; implements; utensils; apparatus; equipments; equipage; accoutrements; furniture; gear; tackling;] (S, M, K) with which one works, for himself or for another: it is both sing. and pl.: (M, K:) or, (K,) as some say, (M,) it is a pl. having no sing. (M, K) as to the letter: (M:) [but it is very often used as a sing.:] and the pl. is آلَاتٌ. (S, K.) In the saying of 'Alee, يَسْتَعْمِلُ آلَةَ الدِّينِ فِى طَلَبِ الدُّنيَا [lit. He makes use of the instrument of religion in seeking the goods of the present world], (assumed tropical:) science, or knowledge, is meant; because thereby only is religion. (M.) ― -b2- [A musical instrument;] a lute; a musical reed, or pipe; the [kind of mandoline called] طُنْبُور. (TA.) ― -b3- The male organ of generation. (TA.) ― -b4- The bier of a corpse. (Abu-l-'Omeythil, S, M, K.) Thus, accord. to some, in the following verse, (S, * M,) of Kaab Ibn-Zuheyr: “ كُلُّ ا@بْنِ أُنْثَى وَإِِنْ طَالتْ سَلَامَتُهُ
يَوْمًا عَلَى آلَةٍ حَدْبَآءَ مَحْمُولُ
” [Every son of a female, though his health, or safety, long continue, is one day borne upon a gibbous bier: for the bier of the Arabs of the desert was generally composed of two poles connected by a net-work of cords upon which the corpse lay depressed]: (S, M:) or, as some say, [in a distressing state, or condition; for, they say,] آلَة here signifies حَلَة. (TA.) ― -b5- See also آلٌ, in two places, near the middle of the paragraph. -A2- A state, or condition; i. q. حَالَةٌ [as mentioned above]: (T, S, M, K:) pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] ↓ آلٌ . (T, S.) You say, هُوَبِآلةِ سَوْءٍ [He is in an evil state or condition]. (S.) ― -b2- I. q. شِذَّةٌ [Straitness; difficulty; distress; &c.]. (M, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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