ض

أل1 ضَؤُلَ, [aor. ـُ (S, M, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. ضَآلَةٌ (S, M, O, Msb) and ضُؤُولَةٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ تَضَآءَلَ; (M, Msb, K;) He, or it, [accord. to the S and O app. said of a man or of a man's body, and accord. to the Msb said of a thing,] was, or became, small in body, or small, and lean: (S, O, Msb:) or small, slender, or thin, and despicable, abject, or ignominious: and also [simply] lean, or spare: (M, K:) and in like manner ↓ اِضْطَأَلَ: (M:) [or lean, or spare, and weak: or weak, small, and slender, or thin: (see the part. n., ضَئِيلٌ:)] or ضُؤُولَةٌ signifies the being lean, or emaciated; and base, abject, or despicable. (TA.) Accord. to Az, (S, O, TA,) ضَؤُلَ, said of a man, (TA,) or ضَؤُلَ رَأْيُهُ, (S, O;) signifies He was, or became, small, or little, [in estimation,] and weak in judgment. (S, O, TA.) 3 ضآءل شَخْصَهُ, (M, TA,) [in the O, and in copies of the K, ضَأَلَ, but the former is the right,] He made his person small, (M, O, * K, TA,) in order that he might not appear. (TA.) Zuheyr says, فَبَيْنَا نَذُودُ الوَحْشَ جَآءَ غُلَامُنَا يَدِبُّ وَيُخْفِى شَخْصَهُ وَيُضَائِلُهْ [And while we were driving the wild animals, our young man came, creeping, and hiding his person, and making it small]. (M, TA.) 6 تَضَآءَلَ: see 1. In a verse of Aboo-Khirásh, تَضَالَ لَهَا جِسْمِى [meaning My body became lean, or spare, by reason of it,] occurs for تَضَآءَلَ: or, as AA relates it, he said تَضَأءَل لَّهَا, with idghám. (M.) b2: Also He became small, or thin; he shrank, or became contracted; (O, * TA, and Ham * pp. 653 and 658;) by reason of abasement, (TA,) or from fear: (Ham p. 658:) he hid his person, sitting, and shrank, or became contracted. (M, K, TA.) And It (a thing) shrank, became contracted, or drew itself together. (TA.) AHn has used it [in this sense] in relation to a herb, or leguminous plant. (M, TA.) 8 اِضْطَأَلَ: see 1.

ضُؤُلَةٌ, (S, O, TA,) like تُوَدَةٌ, (O, TA,) in the copies of the K ضُؤْلَة, but the former is the right, (TA,) an epithet applied to a man, (S, O,) Lean, or spare: (S:) or weak, (K, TA,) lean, or spare, and despicable, abject, or ignominious. (TA.) [See also ضَئِيلٌ.]

هُوَ عَلَيْهِ ضُؤْلَانٌ, (M, K, TA,) with damm, (TA,) [in the CK, erroneously, ضَوَلانٌ,] He, or it, is a burden upon him; syn. كَلٌّ. (M, K, TA.) b2: And حَسَبُهُ عَلَيْهِ ضُؤْلَانٌ His grounds of pretension to respect, or honour, are a cause of reproach to him. (M, TA.) ضَئِيلٌ (also pronounced [by some] ضِئِيلٌ, like شِعِيرٌ [for شَعِيرٌ, q. v.], Ham p. 129) Small in body, and lean; (Msb;) or so ضَئِيلُ الجِسْمِ, applied to a man: (S, O:) or small, slender, or thin, and despicable, abject, or ignominious: and also [simply] lean, or spare: and so ↓ مُضْطَئِلٌ, (M, K,) in both senses: (K:) or lean, or spare, and weak: (TA:) or weak, small, and slender, or thin: (Lth, TA:) and ↓ مُتَضَائِلٌ [likewise] signifies thin, or slender; applied to a man; syn. شَخْتٌ: (S, O, TA:) the pl. of ضَئِيلٌ is ضُؤَلَآءُ and ضِئَالٌ (M, K, TA) and ضَئِيلُونَ: (TA:) and the fem. is ضَئِيلَةٌ. (M, TA.) ضَئِيلَةٌ fem. of ضَئِيلٌ. (M, TA.) b2: Also [as a subst.] A slender serpent: (S, O, K:) or a serpent resembling the viper. (M.) b3: And The لَهَاة [or uvula]. (Th, M, K.) مُضْطَئِلٌ: see ضَئِيلٌ.

مُتَضَائِلٌ: see ضَئِيلٌ. b2: It is also applied as an epithet to the weaving of a coat of mail [app. as signifying Delicate, or fine; or small, or contracted, in the rings]. (TA.)

دلب

دُلْبٌ A kind of tree; (S, and so in some copies of the K;) the tree called the عَيْثَم [or عَيْثَام], (T,) or the غَيْثَان [probably a mistranscription for عَيْثَام]: (M:) or the صِنَّار or صِنَار [i. e. the plane-tree]; (T, M, K, accord. to different copies; in some copies of the K explained as the صنار; in other copies, as a kind of tree, and the صنار;) which is most like to it [referring to the عيثم]; (T;) or which is most likely; (M;) a kind of great tree, (Mgh,) having neither blossom nor fruit, the leaves of which are serrated (M, Mgh) and wide, resembling those of the vine, (M,) called in Persian صِنَار [or rather چَنَارْ]: (Mgh:) in the [Kitáb en-] Nebát, [or Book of Plants, of AHn,] the [tree called] صنار, which is a Persian word that has become current in the language of the Arabs: it grows large and wide: and some say that it is called the عَيْثَام: (TT:) accord. to Ibn-El-Kutbee, it is a great, well-known, tree, the leaves of which resemble those of the خِرْوَع [or palma Christi], except in being smaller, and are bitter in taste, and astringent; having small blossoms: (TA:) [see also De Sacy's “ Abdallatif,” p. 80: and his “ Chrest. Arabs,” sec. ed., p. 394 (173 of the Arabic text) and the notes thereon: the word is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with نَوَاقِيس. (S, M, K.) The نَاقُوس [pl. of هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّرْبَةِ بِمُعَالَجَةِ الدُّلْبَةِ, answering to the Christians the purpose of churchbells,] are made of the wood of this tree: whence the saying, هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّرْبَةِ بِمُعَالَجَةِ الدُّلْبَةِ [He is of the people who are accustomed to ply the wood of the plane-tree], meaning he is a Christian. (A.) A2: الدُّلْبُ [or, as in a copy of the T, accord. to the TT, الدَّلْبُ,] A certain race of the blacks, (T, K,) of Es-Sind: [said to be] formed by transposition from الدَّيْبُلُ. (T.) دُلْبَةٌ n. un. of دُلْبٌ [q. v.]. (S, M, K.) A2: And Blackness, (IAar, T, K,) like لُعْسَةٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) دَالِبٌ A coal that will not become extinguished. (K.) دُولَابٌ, (S,) or دَوْلَابٌ, (A, Mgh,) or each of these, (M, Msb, K,) of which the latter is the more chaste, (Msb, K,) an arabicized word, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) from the Persian [دُولْ آبْ dól-áb]; (S, M, Msb;) but some say it is Arabic; (Msb;) [A kind of water-wheel;] a machine that is turned by a horse or the like; (Mgh, Msb;) a thing formed like the نَاعُورَة, with which water is drawn, (M, A, K,) for irrigating land [&c.]: (A:) or, more correctly, the same as the ناعورة; vulgarly called سَاقِيَة: (TA:) [it mainly consists of a vertical wheel, which raises the water in earthern pots, these being attached to cords, and forming a continuous series; a second vertical wheel, fixed to the same axis as the former, with cogs; and a large, horizontal, cogged wheel, which, being turned by a pair of bulls or cows or by a single beast, puts and keeps in motion the two other wheels and the pots:] pl. دَوَالِيبُ; (S, M, A;) for which دَوَالِى occurs in poetry: (M:) [or rather this (occurring at the end of a verse, and with the article ال,) is pl. of دَالِيَةٌ.]

b2: It has also other meanings, not mentioned in the K. (TA.) [Nor are they mentioned in the TA. Among other meanings used in the present day, are the following. b3: A machine: particularly any machine with a rotatory motion. b4: A cupboard. b5: And A machination; an artifice; a trick; or a fraud.]

أَرْضٌ مَدْلَبَةٌ A land containing, (S,) or abounding with, (K,) the kind of trees called دُلْب. (S, K.)