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[ أَخْيَلُ ذ More, and most, proud and self-conceited. (See also أَخْوَلُ, in art. خول.) Occurring in several provs.; as, for ex.,] أَخْيَلُ مِنْ غُرَابٍ [More proud and self-conceited than a crow]: because the غراب is proud and self-conceited in its gait. (Meyd.) -A2- See also خَيَلَآءُ. -A3- Also Having a خَال, meaning [a thing resembling] a pimple, inclining to blackness, [i. e. a mole,] upon his face: (Mgh:) or, as also ↓ مَخِيلٌ and ↓ مَخْيُولٌ (S, Msb, K) and مَخُولٌ, like مَقُولٌ, (S, Msb,) this last belonging to art. خول, as خَالٌ, whence it is derived, does in one dial., (Msb,) A man (S, Msb) having [or marked with] many خِيلَان [or moles upon his person]: (S, Msb, K: *) fem. [of the first] خَيْلَآءُ. (K.) -A4- الأَخَيْلُ, (S, Msb, K,) when indeterminate, [أَخَيْلٌ or أَخَيْلُ,] perfectly decl., [thus] used as a subst., but some make it imperfectly decl. both when determinate and when indeterminate, and assert it to be originally an epithet, from التَّخَيُّلُ, (S, O,) [though accord. to others it seems to be from أَخْيَلُ as meaning “ having many moles, ”] A certain bird, (JK, S, Msb, K,) regarded as of evil omen, (JK, S, K,) that alights upon the rump of the camel, and is app. for that reason held to be of evil omen; (TA; [see مَخْيُولٌ;]) [applied in the present day to the green wood-pecker, picus viridis;] the صُرَد [q. v.]: (K:) or the green صُرَد: (TA:) or the شِقِرَّاق [a name likewise now applied to the green wood-pecker, and to the common roller, coracias garrula]: (Fr, S, Msb, K:) so called because upon its wings are colours differing from its general colour: (Skr, TA:) or so called because diversified with black and white: (K:) or the شَاهِين [q. v., a species of falcon]: (JK, TA, and Ham p. 705:) pl. أَخَايِلُ, (JK, T, S, Msb, TA, and Ham ubi suprà,) or خِيلٌ. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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