شعل

1 شَعَلَــتِ النَّارُ: see 8. b2: [Hence,] شَعَلَــتِ 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 أَــشْعَلْــتُهَا. (Ham p. 715.) b3: And شَعَلَ فِيهِ, aor. ـَ (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. ـَ (K,) inf. n. شَعَلٌ, (TA,) He (a horse) had the whiteness termed شَعَلٌ and شُعْلَــةٌ [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 اِــشْعِلَــال;]) or ↓ اشعلّ, (S,) or this last also, (TA,) inf. n. اِــشعِلَــالٌ. (S, TA.) Among the faults in the “ Khizánet el-Fik-h ” is ↓ الإِشْعَالُ, [expl. as meaning The having] a whiteness of the أَشْفَار [or edges of the eyelids]. (Mgh.) 2 شعّل النَّارَ: see what next follows.4 اشعل النَّارَ; (Az, S, O, Msb, K;) and ↓ شَعَلَــهَا, (Az, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ inf. n. شَعْلٌ; (TA;) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ شعّلــها, (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, أَــشْعَلْــتُ الحَرْبَ (assumed tropical:) [I kindled war, or the war; or made it to burn fiercely, or to rage]; and ↓ شَعَلْــتُهَا; mentioned by Abu-l-'Alà. (Ham p. 715.) 'Amr Ibn-El-Itnábeh says, لَيْسُوا بِأَنْكَاسٍ وَلَا مِيلٍ إِذَا

↓ مَا الحَرْبُ شُبَّتْ أَــشْعَلُــوا 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 أَــشْعَلْــتُهُ غَضَبًا (O, TA, and Ham p. 194) (tropical:) I excited him, or inflamed him, with anger. (TA.) b4: And اشعل إِبِلَهُ 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 اشعلــوا الغَارَةَ (assumed tropical:) [They spread, or dispersed, themselves, or their horsemen, in the hostile, or predatory, incursion]. (S and K in art. شعو.) And أَــشْعَلْــتُ جَمْعَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) I dispersed or scattered, their congregation. (O, TA.) and اشعل الإِبِلَ (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: أَــشْعَلَــتِ الغَارَةُ (assumed tropical:) The horsemen making a hostile, or predatory, incursion became dispersed, or dispersed themselves. (S, K.) b2: اشعلــت الطَّعْنَةُ (assumed tropical:) The spear-wound, or the like, emitted its blood in a scattered state. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) And اشعلــت القِرْبَةُ, and المَزَادَةُ, (assumed tropical:) The water-skin, and the leathern water-bag, shed its water in a scattered state. (S, K.) and اشعلــت العَيْنُ (assumed tropical:) The eye shed its tears copiously. (O, K.) b3: See also 1, last sentence.5 تَــشَعَّلَ see what next follows.8 اشتعلت النَّارُ; (Lh, S, O, Msb, K, TA;) and ↓ شَعَلَــت, aor. ـَ (Msb;) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ تــشعّلــت; (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 إِــشْعَلَّ see 1.11 إِشْعَاْلَّ 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: see 1.

شَعْلٌ (assumed tropical:) A man light, agile, or active, and clever, ingenious, acute, or sharp: (O, K:) and so مَعْلٌ. (O, TA.) شَعَلٌ [inf. n. of شَعِلَ (q. v.)] and ↓ شُعْلَــةٌ [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 ↓ شُعْلَــةٌ: (Mgh:) or the former, a whiteness in the side of the tail: [or,] accord. to As, ↓ شُعْلَــةٌ 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 الــشَّعَلِ [i. e. one that exhibits the quality of having such whiteness]. (S.) شُعْلَــةٌ 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 شُعْلَــةٌ 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 شُعْلَــةُ 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 ↓ شُعْلُــولٌ. (K, * TA. [In the CK شُعُول; as though it were a second pl. of شُعْلَــةٌ.]) b4: And شُعْلَــةُ, (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.

شُعْلُــولٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

A2: Also A party, division, sect, or distinct body or class, of men &c. (TA.) [See شَعَالِيلُ, below.]

شَعِيلٌ 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 أَــشْعَلُ.

شَعِيلَةٌ [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 شُعْلَــةٌ:]) 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 [a pl., of which the sing. is app. شُعْلُــولٌ, q. v.; Things, and persons, scattered, or dispersed]. Aboo-Wejzeh says, حَتَّى إِذَا 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 as used in a verse cited above (see 4) [may be the part. n. of the intrans. verb in the phrase شَعَلَــتِ النَّارُ, and thus] may mean [Burning &c.; or] slightly burning: (Ham p. 715:) [or] it signifies ذُو إِشْعَالٍ [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 مُــشْعِلٌ. (Ham ubi suprà. [See, again, 4.]) b2: See also the next paragraph.

أَــشْعَلُ A horse having the whiteness termed شُعْلَــةٌ (As, S, Mgh, O, K) or شَعَلٌ [q. v.]; (Mgh, K;) as also ↓ شَعِيلٌ and ↓ شَاعِلٌ: (O, K:) fem. of the first شَعْلَــآءُ. (S, K.) b2: And غُرَّةٌ شَعْلَــآءُ [A blaze on a horse's forehead or face] taking in, i. e. including, one of the eyes. (Mgh, TA.) مَــشْعَلٌ A [lamp of the kind called] قِنْدِيلِ [q. v.]. (K.) b2: See also مَــشْعَلَــةٌ.

مُــشْعَلٌ [pass. part. n. of 4, q. v.]. One says نَارٌ مُــشْعَلَــةٌ [A fire kindled, &c.; or] burning up, burning brightly or fiercely, blazing, or flaming. (Lh, TA.) And جَآءَ فُلاَنٌ كَالحَرِيقِ المُــشْعَلِ i. e. [Such a one came like the fire that is] kindled, &c. (S, O.) See also the next paragraph.

جَرَادٌ مُــشعِلٌ (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 المُــشْعِلِ (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 ↓ المُــشْعَلِ, accord. to Z. (TA.) and كَتِيبَةٌ مُــشْعِلَــةٌ (assumed tropical:) [A military force] spreading, or in a state of dispersion. (S, O.) مِــشْعَلٌ 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 مِــشْعَلًــا occurs in a trad. [as meaning He drank the quantity that filled a مِــشْعَل of نَبِيذ]. (O.) b2: Also i. q. مِصْفَاةٌ [A clarifier, or strainer, for wine &c.]: (O, K:) pl. as above. (TA.) مَــشعَلَــةٌ 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, ↓ مَــشْعَل: (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 ↓ مِــشْعَلَــةٌ; for he says that] المــشعلــة with kesr to the م means the instrument in which fire is carried: and مَــشْعلــة [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.) مِــشْعَلَــةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

مِشْعَالٌ: see مِــشْعَلٌ.

مَشَاعِلِىٌّ, a rel. n. formed from مَشَاعِلُ pl. of مَــشْعَلَــةٌ, is a n. un. of which the coll. gen. n. is مَشَاعِلِيَّةٌ, and signifies A bearer of the cresset called مَــشْعَلَــة: 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.)]