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أَكِيلَةٌ ذ and ↓ أَكِيلٌ and ↓ أُكُولَةٌ , with two dammehs, (K,) so in the copies of the K, but perhaps a mistake for ↓ أُكْلَةٌ , (TA,) a word of a bad dial., (K, * TA,) and ↓ مَأْكُولٌ and ↓ مُؤَاكِلٌ , (K, TA, [in some copies of the former of which, instead of وَهِىَ قَبِيحَةٌ وَ المَأْكُولِ وَ المَؤَاكِلِ, meaning, as is said in the TA, وَهِىَ لُغَةٌ قَبِيحَةٌ &c., we find وَهِىَ قَبِيحَةٌ المَأْكُولِ وَ المَؤَاكِلِ,]) A sheep, or goat, which is set (K, TA) in the lurking-place of a hunter (TA) for the purpose of catching thereby the wolf and the like. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And the first two words, (K,) or أَكِيلَةٌ سَبُعٍ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) A beast which has been eaten, (S, * K,) or partly eaten, (Mgh, Msb,) by a beast or bird of prey, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and then rescued from it: (Mgh, TA:) the ة in اكيلة being added because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it. (S.) ― -b3- See also أَكُولَةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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