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أَسَلٌ ذ [Rush, or rushes: so called in the present day:] a kind of trees: (S:) or [rather] a kind of plant, (M, Mgh, TA,) having shoots (M, Mgh) which are slender, (Mgh,) without leaves; (M, Mgh;) or of which the shoot is slender, and of which sieves are made; as is said in the A; and Sgh adds, [growing] in El-' Irák: (TA:) AHn says, (TA,) accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, it is of the kind called أَغْلَاث, and comes forth in slender shoots, not having branches growing out from them, nor wood, (M, TA,) and sometimes men beat them, and make of them well-ropes and other cords, (TA,) and it seldom or never grows but in a place wherein is water, or near to water: (M, TA:) AHn says [also], it signifies shoots, or twigs, growing (M, K) long and slender and straight, (M,) without leaves; of which mats are made: (M, K:) or أَسَلَةٌ, (K,) which is the n. un. of أَسَلٌ applied to the plant mentioned above, (M, K,) signifies any shoot, or twig, in which is no crookedness. (K.) ― -b2- Hence, (M,) (tropical:) Spears; (S, M, K;) as being likened to the plant mentioned above, in respect of its evenness and length and straightness and the slenderness of its extremities: n. un. as above: (M:) and (assumed tropical:) arrows, or Arabian arrows; syn. نَبْلٌ; (M, K:) applied to both of these in a trad. of 'Omar, which refutes an assertion that it is peculiarly applied to spears, or long spears, and not to نبل: (A'Obeyd, TA:) Sh says that it is applied to spears because of the points of the heads fixed upon them. (TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Any thin thing of iron, such as a spear-head, and a sword, and a knife. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) The prickles of palm-trees: (M, K:) n. un. as above: (M:) by way of comparison [to the plant mentioned above]: (TA:) or any long thorns, or prickles, of a tree. (S.) ― -b5- [See also what next follows.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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