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شَمْلَةٌ ذ A [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء, with which one wraps, or inwraps, himself (يُشْتَمَلُ بِهِ), (S, Mgh, K,) smaller than the قَطِيفَة; as also ↓ مِشْمَلٌ (K) and ↓ مِشْمَلَةٌ ; (S, K;) the last two expl. by Lth as a كِسَآء having a sparse villous substance, with which one wraps himself, smaller than the قَطِيفَة: (TA:) or the first signifies a small كِسَآء which one wears in the manner of the إِِزَار [or waist-wrapper]: (Msb:) or with the Arabs it is a مِئْزَر [or waist-wrapper] of wool or of [goats'] hair, which one wraps round him: and ↓ مِشْمَلَةٌ , such as is made of two pieces sewed together, with which a man wraps himself when he sleeps by night: (Az, TA:) and this last, accord. to Meyd, signifies a كِسَآء comprising the steel with which one strikes fire, with the apparatus of this latter: (Har p. 628:) the pl. of the first is شِمَالٌ (Msb, TA) and شَمَلَاتٌ. (Msb.) [See also مِشْمَالٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] ضَمَّ عَلَيْهِ اللَّيْلُ شَمْلَتَهُ (tropical:) [The night contracted upon him its covering of darkness]. (TA.) ― -b3- And أُمُّ شَمْلَةَ (tropical:) The present world, or its enjoyments; syn. الدُّنْيَا: (IAar, K, TA:) so called because compassing the intellect of a man (تَشْتَمِلُ عَلَى عَقْلِهِ), and concealing it. (TA.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) Wine: (AA, K, TA:) so called for the same reason. (TA.) ― -b5- And The sun. (Z, TA; and T in art. ام).
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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