ثــتل
Q. Q. 1 ثَيْـ
ـتَلَ, (
K and
TA, in the
CK تَثَيْـ
ـتَلَ,) He feigned himself stupid after feigning himself intelligent: (
K,
TA:)
accord. to some copies, after feigning himself negligent, or inadvertent: (تَغَافُل being put in the place of تَعَاقُل:) [
app. from the
subst. below:] but the word as mentioned by
IAar is تنـ
ـتل [
app. a mistranscription for ثَنْـ
ـتَلَ]. (
TA.) ثَيْـ
ـتَلٌ The وَعِل [or mountain-goat], (
M,
K,) as a general term: (
M:) [in the present day, but vulgarly pronounced تَيْـ
ـتَل, applied to the wild goat of the Arabian and Egyptian deserts and mountains; the capra jaela of Hamilton Smith; called by some an ibex; as is also بَدَن:] or an old وعل: (
S,
M,
Mgh,
K:) or the male of the أَرْوَى: (
Sh,
T,
M,
K: [this is the same as the first explanation:]) En-Nadr says that it has small horns: (
T:) Aboo-Kheyreh, that it is of the وُعُول, does not quit the mountain, and its horns have branches: (
T,
Mgh: *) he says that the وعول are dusky, or dingy, or of a hue inclining to black and dust-colour, with whiteness in their lower parts; and the ثَيَا
تِل [
pl. of ثَيْـ
ـتَل] are like them in their colours, and only distinguished from them by the horns; the وعل having long horns, which extend backwards until they meet over his tail: (
T:) also a species of [the bovine antelope called] بَقَرُ الوَحْشِ, (
M,
K,) that abides in the mountains. (
M.)
b2: A man who sits with women. (
TA.)
b3: Incapable of going in to women; or not desirous of women. (
K.)
b4: A bulky, or corpulent, man, in whom one thinks there is good (
AA,
K,
TA) when there is no good in him: (
AA,
TA:) but, as mentioned by
As, it is تيـ
ـتل. (
TA.)