ميل
1 مَالَ [He, or it, inclined, leant, bent, propended, tended, declined, deviated, or deflected.]
b2: مَالَ مَعَهُ and ↓ مَايَلَهُ He conformed with, and assisted, or aided, him. (
TA.)
b3: مَالَ إِلَيْهِ He loved him. (
TA.)
b4: He wronged him. (
TA.) He was, or became, inimical to him.
b5: مَالَتِ الدَّابَّةُ مِنْ رِجْلِهَا (
K, art. غمز,)
i. q. ظَلَعَتْ [It limped]. (
TA.) 2 مَيَّلَ بَيْنَ شَيْئَيْنِ He wavered, or vacillated, between two things. (
S,
MA.) See 10.
3 مَايَلَهُ He inclined towards him reciprocally: and مَايَلَا they two inclined each towards the other. (
TK, art. هود.) See also مَالَ مَعَهُ in 1.
5 تَمَيَّلَ See 6.
b2: تَمَيَّلَ بِالقَوْلِ He vacillated in the saying: see تَرَجَّحَ.
6 تَمَايَلَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ [He affected an inclining of his body, or a bending, or he inclined his body, or bent, from side to side, in his gait; a meaning well known, and still common]; (
S;)
syn. تَثَنَّى. (
Har, p. 269.)
b2: See تَزَايُغٌ.
b3: تَمَايَلَتْ فِى
مِشْيَتِهَا and ↓ تَمَيَّلَتْ signify the same. (
TA.)
b4: تَمَايَلَ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ; and عَنْ طَرِيقِهِ:
i. q. تَجَانَفَ [He affected a deviation, or purposely deviated from his course, &c.] (
TA in art. جنف.) 10 استمالهُ
, and استمال بِقَلْبِهِ, (
S,
K,) He inclined him, and his heart. (
K.)
b2: اِسْتَمَالَهُ He attracted him to himself; or sought to make him incline. (
MA.)
b3: استمال is a quasi-
pass. of ↓ مَيَّلَهُ. (
K, *
TA.) مِيلٌ as used by the Arabs, [A mile:] The distance to which the eye reaches along land:
accord. to the ancient astronomers, three thousand cubits: accord to the moderns, four thousand cubits: but the difference is merely verbal; for they agree that its extent is ninety-six thousand digits; [about 5166 English feet;] each digit being the measure of six barley-corns, each placed with its belly next to another; but the ancients say that the cubit is thirty-two digits; which makes the mile three thousand cubits. (
Msb, which see for more.) See also مُطْلِبٌ
b2: ميِلٌ i. q.
مُلْمُولٌ, [A style]. (
K.) مَيْلٌ Inclination; leaning; bent; propensity; tendency.
مَيَلٌ A natural wryness. (
S.) مِيلَانِ (?) of a مَحَالَة of a well: see ثِنَايَةٌ.
مَيَّالٌ [i. q.
مُتَمَايِلٌ, Inclining much]. (
A, art. فيد.) See سَيَّالٌ.
أَمْيَلُ Swaying on horseback: see an
ex. of its
pl. مِيلٌ in a verse cited
voce أَشْعَلَ.
b2: عِمَّةٌ مَيْلَآءُ: see قَفْدَآءُ.
امالةُ الأَلِفِ The inclining of the sound of ا when quiescent, after fet-hah, towards the sound of ى; so that the fet-hah, with that ا, composes a sound the same as that of the long “ e ” in the English word “ there. ” This is accordant with present usage; and I have not found any learned Arab who asserts otherwise. See also نَابٌ, and حَجَّاجٌ, and مَشُوبٌ.
