شعل

شَعْلٌ

Kindling or inflammation of fire.

A nominal or verbal-noun expression for fire becoming inflamed or burning.

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شَعَلَ

To become spread or dispersed.

Attested of horsemen dispersing during a hostile or predatory raid.

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شَعَلَ

To go far in an affair.

Used with an affair as the object of the preposition فِي.

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شَعِلَ

Of a horse, to have the white marking called شَعَلٌ or شُعْلَةٌ.

A descriptive use concerning a horse exhibiting the specified whiteness.

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أَشْعَلَ

To kindle a fire, making it burn brightly, fiercely, blaze, or flame.

Used transitively with fire, especially fire in fuel or firewood; the intensive sense emphasizes vigorous burning.

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أَشْعَلَ

To kindle or intensify war; to excite or inflame anger.

Used figuratively with war or anger.

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أَشْعَلَ

To smear camels extensively with tar.

A specialized transitive use referring to broad application of tar rather than only to isolated sores or scabs.

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أَشْعَلَ

To spread or disperse a group, or to become dispersed.

Used of horsemen, camels, a congregation, or a raid; the same lexical branch also occurs in an intransitive construction describing a raid whose participants disperse.

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أَشْعَلَ

To discharge blood, water, or tears in a scattered or copious flow.

Used of a wound emitting blood, a waterskin or water-bag shedding water, or an eye shedding abundant tears.

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أَشْعَلَ

To make irrigation water abundant.

A specialized use with water supplied for irrigation.

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اِشْتَعَلَ

To become kindled, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame.

Used intransitively of fire, especially fire in fuel or firewood.

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اِشْتَعَلَ

To become excited or inflamed with anger; to become filled with wrath.

A figurative intransitive use with anger or wrath understood as the accompanying state.

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إِشْعَاْلَّ

Of hair, to become separated, loosened, ruffled, or bristling.

Used of the hair of the head becoming disordered or standing out.

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شَعْلٌ

A man who is light, agile, active, clever, ingenious, acute, or sharp.

An attributive description of a person combining quick movement with mental alertness.

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شَعَلٌ

A white marking in a horse's tail, forelock, head, or related hair.

Reports differ on the precise location: it is chiefly associated with the tail, but may also denote whiteness in the forelock, head, or side of the tail.

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شُعْلَةٌ

A firebrand, a piece of wood in which fire is kindled, a lighted wick, or a flame.

The word covers a portable burning piece or flame; it is also used for the lighted or burnt extremity of a wick.

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شُعْلُولٌ

A party, division, sect, distinct body, or class of people.

A collective designation for a distinct group or division.

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شَعِيلٌ

Glowing embers or fire-touched tinder, including material resembling stars at the bottom of a cooking pot.

Used of residual glowing material or a burnt rag into which fire has fallen.

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شَعِيلَةٌ

A lighted wick or an oil- or grease-soaked wick containing fire.

The item is called this when it is actually kindled and used to give light.

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شَعَالِيلُ

Scattered or dispersed things or persons; to go away in a dispersed state.

A plural expression used of scattered portions, people, or groups that have dispersed.

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شَاعِلٌ

One who or that which kindles, or something possessing the quality of kindling.

The word may be analyzed as an active participle or as a possessive epithet meaning ‘possessing kindling’; its attested use is connected with something burning or causing vigorous burning.

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أَشْعَلُ

A horse having a white marking of the type called شُعْلَةٌ or شَعَلٌ.

The feminine form is شَعْلَاءُ; the marking may include a blaze on the forehead extending over one eye.

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مَشْعَلٌ

A lamp of the kind called قِنْدِيلٌ.

A concrete lighting implement.

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مُشْعَلٌ

Kindled, burning brightly or fiercely, blazing, or flaming.

The passive-participial adjective is used of fire or a fire-like blaze.

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مُشْعِلٌ

Numerous and spreading in every direction; dispersed like a swarm of locusts.

Used of locusts and extended to an army or military force advancing in a spreading or dispersed formation.

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مِشْعَلٌ

A skin vessel on four wooden legs, used as a trough-like container for preparing or holding nabīdh.

A desert implement, also called مِشْعَالٌ; its plural is مَشَاعِلُ.

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مِشْعَلٌ

A clarifier or strainer for wine and similar liquids.

A specialized technical sense of the same noun.

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مَشْعَلَةٌ

A large support or cresset for carrying a light or burning material.

It may consist of a staff with one or more receptacles for flaming wood, tarred rags, or similar fuel, and may be carried before travelers at night.

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مِشْعَلَةٌ

An instrument or container in which fire is carried.

The vocalized form with kasrah on the initial mīm denotes the fire-bearing implement; it is closely related to the cresset sense.

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مَشْعَلَةٌ

Fire that has been kindled or made to burn brightly, fiercely, blaze, or flame.

The vocalized form with fatḥah on the initial mīm is used adjectivally or nominally for kindled fire.

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مَشَاعِلِيٌّ

A bearer of a cresset; by extension, a nightman, well-cleaner, scavenger, or executioner.

These occupational senses develop from association with the cresset and its use in night work, well cleaning, removal of refuse, and execution.

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