This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
شَوْلَةٌ ذ The part that it raises of the tail of the scorpion; (S, O, K;) and so ↓ شَوْلٌ : (Ham p. 649:) or, accord. to Sh, its sting, with which it strikes. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الشَّوْلَةُ (assumed tropical:) Two bright stars, near together, [ λ and ν ,] (S, O,) in the end of the tail of Scorpio, (Kzw,) which are one of the Mansions of the Moon, (S, O, Kzw,) namely, the Nineteenth Mansion; (Kzw;) also called حُمَةُ العَقْرَبِ. (S, O.) [See مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل.] ― -b3- And شَوْلَةُ is a proper name for The scorpion; (O, TA;) [and] so ↓ شَوَّالَةُ . (K, TA.) -A2- Also A foolish, or stupid, woman. (IAar, O, K.) شَوْلَةُ was the name of A certain foolish female slave, belonging to [the tribe of] 'Adwán, and she used to give advice to her masters, and it resulted in evil to them; whence the saying, أَنْتَ شَوْلَةُ النَّاصِحَةُ [Thou art Showleh the giver of advice]. (S, O, K.) ― -b2- Also the name of The mare of Zeyd-el-Fawáris Ed-Dabbee. (O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
