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شعل

1 شَعَلَتِ النَّارُ ذ : see 8. ― -b2- [Hence,] شَعَلَتِ الخَيْلُ فِى الغَارَةِ (assumed tropical:) [The horsemen became spread or dispersed, or spread or dispersed themselves, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]; quasi-pass. of أَشْعَلْتُهَا. (Ham p. 715.) ― -b3- And شَعَلَ فِيهِ, aor. شَعَلَ , (K,) inf. n. شَعْلٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He went far in it; (K;) namely, an affair. (TK.) -A2- شَعَلَ النَّارَ: ― -b2- and الحَرْبَ: see 4. -A3- شَعِلَ, aor. شَعَلَ , (K,) inf. n. شَعَلٌ, (TA,) He (a horse) had the whiteness termed شَعَلٌ and شُعْلَةٌ [expl. below]; (K;) as also ↓ اشعالّ , (Mgh, K, TA,) which occurs in poetry with the ا made movent, i. e. ↓ اِشْعَأَلَّ , inf. n. اِشْعِيلَالٌ; (TA; [in my copy of the Mgh written اِشْعِلَال;]) or ↓ اشعلّ , (S,) or this last also, (TA,) inf. n. اِشعِلَالٌ. (S, TA.) Among the faults in the “ Khizánet el-Fik-h ” is ↓ الإِِشْعَالُ , [expl. as meaning The having] a whiteness of the أَشْفَار [or edges of the eyelids]. (Mgh.) 2 شعّل النَّارَ ذ : see what next follows. 4 اشعل النَّارَ ذ ; (AZ, S, O, Msb, K;) and ↓ شَعَلَهَا , (AZ, O, Msb, K,) aor. شَعَلَ , inf. n. شَعْلٌ; (TA;) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ شعّلها , (K,) inf. n. تَشْعِيلٌ; (TA;) He kindled the fire; or made it to burn up, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame; syn. أَضْرَمَهَا, (S, O, TA,) or أَوْقَدَهَا, (Msb, by implication,) or أَلْهَيَهَا; (K, TA;) فِى الحَطَبِ [in the firewood]. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says also, أَشْعَلْتُ الحَرْبَ (assumed tropical:) [I kindled war, or the war; or made it to burn fiercely, or to rage]; and ↓ شَعَلْتُهَا ; mentioned by Abu-l-'Alà. (Ham p. 715.) 'Amr Ibn-El-Itnábeh says, “ لَيْسُوا بِأَنْكَاسٍ وَلَا مِيلٍ إِِذَا
مَا الحَرْبُ شُبَّتْ أَشْعَلُوا بِالشَّاعِلِ
” (S, O, and Ham ubi suprà,) (assumed tropical:) They are not persons in whom is no good, nor such as are not firm on their horses: [when war is kindled,] they make to burn fiercely, and excite, that which is slightly burning: such may be the meaning; for it may be that the ب in بالشاعل is pleonastically inserted, and الشاعل may mean as above: or بالشاعل may mean by him who makes it to burn fiercely, [as is implied in the S and O,] or by that which does so. (Ham.) ― -b3- And أَشْعَلْتُهُ غَضَبًا (O, TA, and Ham p. 194) (tropical:) I excited him, or inflamed him, with anger. (TA.) ― -b4- And اشعل إِِبِلَهُ بِالقَطِرَانِ (assumed tropical:) He smeared his camels much with tar; (S, O, K, TA;) [which has a burning effect;] smearing them generally, and not merely the scattered scabs exclusively of the other parts of the body. (TA.) ― -b5- And اشعل الخَيْلَ فِى الغَارَةِ (tropical:) He spread, or dispersed, the horsemen in the hostile, or predatory, incursion: (O, K, TA:) and [in like manner] one says اشعلوا الغَارَةَ (assumed tropical:) [They spread, or dispersed, themselves, or their horsemen, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]. (S and K in art. شعو.) And أَشْعَلْتُ جَمْعَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) I dispersed or scattered, their congregation. (O, TA.) And اشعل الإِِبِلَ (assumed tropical:) He dispersed the camels. (Lh, K, (TA.) ― -b6- And اشعل السَّقْىَ (assumed tropical:) He made [the water-ing or] the water [of the irrigation] abundant. (IAar, K, TA.) -A2- أَشْعَلَتِ الغَارَةُ (assumed tropical:) The horsemen making a hostile, or predatory, incursion became dispersed, or dispersed themselves. (S, K.) ― -b2- اشعلت الطَّعْنَةُ (assumed tropical:) The spear-wound, or the like, emitted its blood in a scattered state. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) And اشعلت القِرْبَةُ, and المَزَادَةُ, (assumed tropical:) The water-skin, and the leathern water-bag, shed its water in a scattered state. (S, K.) And اشعلت العَيْنُ (assumed tropical:) The eye shed its tears copiously. (O, K.) ― -b3- See also 1, last sentence. 5 تَشَعَّلَ see what next follows. 8 اشتعلت النَّارُ ذ ; (Lh, S, O, Msb, K, TA;) and ↓ شَعَلَت , aor. شَعَلَ ; (Msb;) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ تشعّلت ; (K, TA;) The fire became kindled; or it burned up, burned brightly or fiercely, blazed, or flamed; syn. تَأَجَّجَت, (Lh, TA,) or اِضْطَرَمَت, (S, O, TA,) or تَوَقَّدَت, (Msb,) and اِلْتَهَبَت; (K, * TA;) فِى الحَطَبِ [in the firewood]. (Lh, TA.) ― -b2- Hence, اِشْتَعَلَ غَضَبًا (tropical:) He became excited, or inflamed, with anger: (TA:) or he became filled with wrath. (Msb.) ― -b3- Hence also, اشتعل الشَّيْبُ فِى الرَّأْسِ (tropical:) Whiteness of the hair became glistening in the head; including the hair of the beard. (TA.) And اشتعل الرَّأْسَ شَيْبًا [in the Kur xix. 3, expl. in art. شيب]. (S, Msb.) 9 إِِشْعَلَّ see 1. 11 إِِشْعَاْلَّ see 1. ― -b2- اشعالّ رَأْسُهُ, (O, K,) inf. n. اِشْعِيلَالٌ, (TA,) His hair became separated, or loosened, and ruffled, or bristling up. (O, K.) Q. Q. 4 اِشْعَأَلَّ ذ : see 1. شَعْلٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A man light, agile, or active, and clever, ingenious, acute, or sharp: (O, K:) and so مَعْلٌ. (O, TA.) شَعَلٌ ذ [inf. n. of شَعِلَ (q. v.)] and ↓ شُعْلَةٌ [properly a subst. as distinguished from an inf. n.] (assumed tropical:) A whiteness in the tail of a horse, and the forelock, and the قَذَال [or place where the عِذَار, i. e. each of the two cheek-straps of the headstall, is tied, behind the forelock]: (K:) or in some part of the forelock; or, as some say, in a side thereof: and sometimes in the قذال: but mostly in the tail: (TA:) or the former signifies a whiteness in the extremity of the tail of a horse: or, accord. to Lth, a whiteness in the forelock and the tail: or, as some say, in the head and the forelock: [or the quality of having such whiteness: for it is added that] the subst. [app. signifying such whiteness itself] is ↓ شُعْلَةٌ : (Mgh:) or the former, a whiteness in the side of the tail: [or,] accord. to As, ↓ شُعْلَةٌ is a term applied to a whiteness of the tail when it intermixes with any other colour; and the horse is said to be بَيِّنُ الشَّعَلِ [i. e. one that exhibits the quality of having such whiteness]. (S.) شُعْلَةٌ ذ A firebrand; a piece of wood in which fire is kindled; (Az, K, * TA;) like جِذْوَةٌ and قَيَسٌ and شِهَابٌ: (Az, TA:) [this is what is meant by its being said that] what is termed شُعْلَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ [the only indication of the meaning in the S and O] is well known: (Msb:) pl. شُعَلٌ; (S, O, TA;) erroneously said in the K to be like كُتُبٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] one says, فُلَانٌ شُعْلَةُ نَارٍ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one is a firebrand]. (Er-Rághib, TA voce ذَكَآءٌ, q. v.) ― -b2- And [A lighted wick: so in the present day: (see also شَعِيلَةٌ:) or] the burnt [or lighted] extremity of a wick. (S voce قِرَاطٌ. [And the same meaning is intended there in the K; and also in the TA voce جِذْوَةٌ.]) ― -b3- And The flame of fire; as also ↓ شُعْلُولٌ . (K, * TA. [In the CK شُعُول; as though it were a second pl. of شُعْلَةٌ.]) ― -b4- And شُعْلَةُ, (O, K, TA,) without ال, (K, TA,) is the name of A mare of Keys Ibn-Sebáa; (O, K, TA;) likened to the kindling of fire, because of her swiftness. (TA.) ― -b5- See also شَعَلٌ, in three places. شُعْلُولٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph. -A2- Also A party, division, sect, or distinct body or class, of men &c. (TA.) [See شَعَالِيلُ, below.] شَعِيلٌ ذ The like of stars, at the bottom of a cooking-pot; and in tinder, or burnt rag into which fire has fallen. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, TA.) ― -b2- See the next paragraph. ― -b3- And see also أَشْعَلُ. شَعِيلَةٌ ذ [A lighted wick; i. e.] a wick in which is fire; (S, O, K;) a wick soaked with oil or grease, in which is fire, used for giving light, and not thus called unless kindled with fire: (TA: [see also شُعْلَةٌ:]) or the fire that is kindled in a wick: (K:) pl. شُعُلٌ, like as صُحُفٌ is pl. of صَحِيفَةٌ; (T, S, O, TA;) in the K erroneously said to be ↓ شَعِيلٌ [which, however, may be correct as a coll. gen. n.]. (TA.) شَعَالِيلُ ذ [a pl., of which the sing. is app. شُعْلُولٌ, q. v.; Things, and persons, scattered, or dispersed]. Aboo-Wejzeh says, “ حَتَّى إِِذَا مَا دَنَتْ مِنْهُ سَوَابِقُهَا
وَلِلُّغَامِ بِعِطْفَيْهِ شَعَالِيلُ
” [Until, or until when, those of them that outstripped approached him, and there were scattered portions of foam upon his two sides]. (TA.) And one says, ذَهَبُوا شَعَالِيلَ, (S, O, K,) like شَعَارِيرَ, i. e., (S, O,) [They went away] in a state of dispersion; (K;) [or] they dispersed themselves, or became dispersed. (S, O.) شَاعِلٌ ذ as used in a verse cited above (see 4) [may be the part. n. of the intrans. verb in the phrase شَعَلَتِ النَّارُ, and thus] may mean [Burning &c.; or] slightly burning: (Ham p. 715:) [or] it signifies ذُو إِِشْعَالٍ [having the quality of kindling, &c.; being said to be a possessive epithet], (S, O, K,) like تَامِرٌ and لَابِنٌ, having no verb: (S, O: [but see 4, first sentence:]) or it may be for ذُو شَعْلٍ, meaning مُشْعِلٌ. (Ham ubi suprà. [See, again, 4.]) ― -b2- See also the next paragraph. أَشْعَلُ ذ A horse having the whiteness termed شُعْلَةٌ (As, S, Mgh, O, K) or شَعَلٌ [q. v.]; (Mgh, K;) as also ↓ شَعِيلٌ and ↓ شَاعِلٌ : (O, K:) fem. of the first شَعْلَآءُ. (S, K.) ― -b2- And غُرَّةٌ شَعْلَآءُ [A blaze on a horse's forehead or face] taking in, i. e. including, one of the eyes. (Mgh, TA.) مَشْعَلٌ ذ A [lamp of the kind called] قِنْدِيلِ [q. v.]. (K.) ― -b2- See also مَشْعَلَةٌ. مُشْعَلٌ ذ [pass. part. n. of 4, q. v.]. One says نَارٌ مُشْعَلَةٌ [A fire kindled, &c.; or] burning up, burning brightly or fiercely, blazing, or flaming. (Lh, TA.) And جَآءَ فُلاَنٌ كَالحَرِيقِ المُشْعَلِ i. e. [Such a one came like the fire that is] kindled, &c. (S, O.) See also the next paragraph. جَرَادٌ مُشعِلٌ ذ (tropical:) Locusts that are numerous, (K, TA,) spreading, (S, O,) in a state of dispersion, (K,) running in every direction. (S, O.) One says, (S, O, TA,) of an army, (TA,) جَاؤُوا كَالجَرَادِ المُشْعِلِ (S, O, TA) (tropical:) They came [like locusts numerous and spreading, &c.,] coming forth from every direction: thus the last word is written accord. to Az [and J] and Sgh; and thus, and also ↓ المُشْعَلِ , accord. to Z. (TA.) And كَتِيبَةٌ مُشْعِلَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [A military force] spreading, or in a state of dispersion. (S, O.) مِشْعَلٌ ذ A certain thing, (S, O, K,) used by the Arabs of the desert, (S, O,) made of skins (S, O, K) sewed together, like the نِطَع [q. v.], (S, O,) having four legs (S, O, K) of wood, to which it is bound, so that it becomes like the wateringtrough; (S, O;) [the beverage called] نَبِيذ is prepared in it, (S, O, K,) because [generally] they have not jars: (S, O:) also called ↓ مِشْعَالٌ : (O, K:) pl. مَشَاعِلُ. (S, O.) شَرِبَ مِشْعَلًا occurs in a trad. [as meaning He drank the quantity that filled a مِشْعَل of نَبِيذ]. (O.) ― -b2- Also i. q. مِصْفَاةٌ [A clarifier, or strainer, for wine &c.]: (O, K:) pl. as above. (TA.) مَشعَلَةٌ ذ A particular sort of large support for a light: (KL:) [i. e. a sort of cresset, consisting of a staff with a cylindrical frame of iron at the top which is filled with flaming pine-wood or the like or tarred rags, or, as is sometimes the case, having two, three, four, or five, of these receptacles for fire: it is borne before travellers and others at night; and is thus called in the present day, and also, more commonly, ↓ مَشْعَل : (two cressets of the sort thus called are figured in my “ Modern Egyptians, ” ch. vi.: see also مَشَاعِلِىٌّ, below:)] the place in which fire is kindled: (TA: [a loose explanation, meaning a cresset:]) what is thus called is the thing of which the pl. is مَشَاعِلُ: (S, O:) [accord. to El-Wáhidee, it is ↓ مِشْعَلَةٌ ; for he says that] المشعلة with kesr to the م means the instrument in which fire is carried: and مَشْعلة [thus, with a fet-hah over the نار,] means fire kindled; or made to burn up, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame; syn. موقدة موقدة. (W p. 51.) مِشْعَلَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph. مِشْعَالٌ ذ : see مِشْعَلٌ. [ مَشَاعِلِىٌّ ذ , a rel. n. formed from مَشَاعِلُ pl. of مَشْعَلَةٌ, is a n. un. of which the coll. gen. n. is مَشَاعِلِيَّةٌ, and signifies A bearer of the cresset called مَشْعَلَة: hence applied also to a nightman: and hence, to a cleanser of wells: a scavenger; or remover of offal and the like: and to an executioner. (See De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, sec. ed., i. 201 — 203; and Quatremère's “ Hist. des Sultans Mamlouks, ” sec. part, 4 and 5.)]

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