شكل

شَكَلَ

To bind an animal's legs with a شِكَال or similar cord.

Used of horses, beasts, birds, and camels; the binding may join or restrain corresponding legs.

• Lane · entry 39053

شَكَلَ

To mark or restrict writing with grammatical, vocalic, and other reading signs.

A later or technical usage connected figuratively with removing ambiguity from writing; the source distinguishes it from merely dotting letters.

• Lane · entry 39053

شَكَلَ

To plait two locks of hair and use them to bind the remaining locks.

Described of a woman arranging the hair at the front of the head.

• Lane · entry 39053

شَكَلَ

To compress the lioness sexually.

A rare lexical usage reported on the authority of one early lexicographer.

• Lane · entry 39053

شَكِلَ

To use amorous or coquettish gestures and behavior.

Describes amorous display combined with feigned coyness or opposition.

• Lane · entry 39053

شَكِلَ إِلَى

To incline toward, rely upon, or find ease in something.

The construction takes إِلَى with the object toward which one inclines or on which one relies.

• Lane · entry 39053

شَكَّلَ

To form, fashion, shape, sculpt, or picture something.

A causative or transitive shaping use, synonymous with giving something a form or image.

• Lane · entry 39054

مُشَاكَلَةٌ

Conformity, suitability, agreement, similarity, or homogeneity between things.

The related verb مُشَاكَلَ can describe things or persons as corresponding or resembling one another.

• Lane · entry 39055

أَشْكَلَ

To become like or resemble something; to acquire a likeness or match.

The source presents this as the primary signification of the Form IV verb.

• Lane · entry 39056

أَشْكَلَ

To become dubious, confused, mixed up, or difficult to distinguish.

Used of a thing, case, affair, or information becoming unclear to someone; إِشْكَالٌ can function as a noun for doubt or uncertainty.

• Lane · entry 39056

أَشْكَلَ

To be nearly cured while remaining in an uncertain intermediate state.

A specialized usage said of a disease and compared with تَمَاثَلَ.

• Lane · entry 39056

أَشْكَلَ

For date palms to reach the stage at which their dates are sweet and ripe or nearly ripe.

Used specifically of the ripening state of palm dates.

• Lane · entry 39056

أَشْكَلَ

For an eye to have the coloration called شُكْلَةٌ.

The coloration is a reddish admixture in the white of the eye.

• Lane · entry 39056

تَشَكَّلَ

To become formed, fashioned, shaped, or goodly in appearance and form.

An intransitive development into a particular shape or pleasing aspect.

• Lane · entry 39057

تَشَكَّلَ

For grapes to enter a partly ripened or darkening stage.

Describes grapes becoming partly ripe, black, or beginning to ripen.

• Lane · entry 39057

اِسْتَشْكَلَ

To deem a word, phrase, sentence, or statement dubious or confused.

A learned usage reported as current in the author's time.

• Lane · entry 39060

شَكْلٌ

A model, pattern, likeness, or manner corresponding to another.

Used in expressions such as عَلَى شَكْلِهِ for being according to another's pattern or mode; the likeness sense is also represented by the Quranic form entry.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

The shape, form, figure, or configuration of a thing.

May refer to a perceptible or imagined form, including a body's outline or arrangement of boundaries.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

A kind, sort, or variety.

Used of classes or varieties of animals, plants, food, and similar things.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

Something suitable, fitting, or proper for a person.

Used of what accords with someone's preferences, circumstances, or case.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

A discordant, difficult, dubious, or confused affair.

A plural-derived usage referring to troublesome or unclear matters that cause anxiety or difficulty.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

An ornament of pearls or silver resembling others of its kind.

Describes ornaments worn by women as ear-drops or attached to the hair.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

A species of plant diversified in color.

A botanical usage for a plant with yellow and red coloration.

• Lane · entry 39061

شَكْلٌ

The set of vowel marks and other signs indicating a word's pronunciation.

A technical plural-like use of the verbal noun for the signs used to vocalize and disambiguate writing.

• Lane · entry 39061

شِكْلٌ

Amorous, coquettish, or pleasing behavior.

Used especially as an attribute of a woman and associated with coquettish charm and graceful dalliance.

• Lane · entry 39062

شَكَلٌ

A white marking in an animal's flank.

Described of sheep or goats, with the rest of the coloration differing from the white flank.

• Lane · entry 39063

شَكَلٌ

The condition of an eye containing the coloration called شُكْلَةٌ.

The referenced eye coloration involves a reddish admixture in the white.

• Lane · entry 39063

شُكْلَةٌ

An admixture of colors, especially redness mixed with whiteness.

Used of the coloring of camels, sheep, goats, hyenas, and eyes; in an eye it denotes a reddish mark in the white, with variant descriptions recorded.

• Lane · entry 39064

شَكِلَةٌ

A woman who displays amorous or coquettish behavior in a pleasing manner.

A lexical designation for the woman rather than for the behavior itself.

• Lane · entry 39065

شَكْلَاءُ

A want, need, or requested matter.

A rare nominal usage; the need is figuratively something that binds or constrains a person.

• Lane · entry 39066

شَكْلَاءُ

Dissimulation or conciliatory flattery.

A rare usage equated with مُدَاهَنَةٌ; the source leaves its precise grammatical category uncertain.

• Lane · entry 39066

شِكَالٌ

A cord, bond, or set of hobbles used to bind an animal's legs.

Used of ropes joining or restraining the fore and hind legs of horses, camels, and other beasts; related saddle equipment has specialized applications.

• Lane · entry 39067

شِكَالٌ

A distinctive pattern of white markings on a horse's legs.

The pattern involves contrasting marked and unmarked legs, with variant descriptions of which legs bear the markings.

• Lane · entry 39067

شَكِيلٌ

Foam mixed with blood appearing around a bit's mouthpiece.

A specialized equestrian usage.

• Lane · entry 39068

شَاكِلٌ

A patch of white between an animal's cheek strap area and its ear.

A specialized description of an animal's facial markings.

• Lane · entry 39069

شَوْكَلٌ

Uniform or made into one consistent arrangement.

Used in the expression إِجْعَلِ الأَمْرَ شَوْكَلًا وَاحِدًا, ‘make the affair one uniform thing.’

• Lane · entry 39070

شَاكِلَةٌ

The flank or side of a body.

In a horse, it may denote the skin or exterior region between the flank and the stifle area.

• Lane · entry 39071

شَوَاكِلُ

The hind legs.

A plural usage explained as arising from the legs being associated with or shackled by a شِكَال.

• Lane · entry 39071

شَاكِلَةٌ

The point or aspect aimed at, especially the right point reached by an opinion or judgment.

A figurative extension of the bodily-side sense in expressions about hitting the correct point.

• Lane · entry 39071

شَاكِلَةٌ

The part between the ear and the temple.

A specialized anatomical usage distinct from the flank sense.

• Lane · entry 39071

شَوَاكِلُ

Roads branching from a main road.

Used of a road having multiple branches or diverging routes.

• Lane · entry 39071

شَاكِلَتَا الطَّرِيقِ

The two sides or margins of a road.

A specialized plural construction describing the visible sides of a route.

• Lane · entry 39071

شَوْكَلَةٌ

The foot soldiers or a wing of an army.

Depending on usage, it denotes the infantry, the right wing, or the left wing.

• Lane · entry 39072

شَوْكَلَةٌ

A side, region, quarter, or direction toward which one goes.

A general spatial or directional usage related to the notion of a side or branch.

• Lane · entry 39072

شَوْكَلَةٌ

A tree of the species called عَوْسَجٌ.

A botanical designation.

• Lane · entry 39072

أَشْكَلُ

More or most like something.

A comparative adjective used with بِـ to indicate greater resemblance.

• Lane · entry 39074

أَشْكَلُ

Having two colors intermixed, especially whiteness and redness.

Applied to blood, people, or other things; in water it can mean mixed with blood, and in an eye it describes a reddish mark in the white.

• Lane · entry 39074

أَشْكَلُ

Having blackness mixed with redness or dust-color.

Applied especially to camels, sheep, goats, and rams.

• Lane · entry 39074

أَشْكَلُ

White in the flank or side marking.

Applied to a sheep or goat whose flank is white while the remainder is black; the feminine is شَكْلَاءُ.

• Lane · entry 39074

أَشْكَلُ

The mountain species of lote tree.

A botanical term for a hard, thorny tree growing in high mountains and used for bows.

• Lane · entry 39074

أَشْكَلَةٌ

Dubiousness, confusion, or entanglement.

A noun for a matter whose interpretation or identification is unclear.

• Lane · entry 39075

أَشْكَلَةٌ

A single tree of the species أَشْكَلُ.

A botanical noun of unity.

• Lane · entry 39075

مُشْكِلٌ

Entering among or becoming confused with things of its own kind.

The participial sense emphasizes being mixed into a set of similar things.

• Lane · entry 39076

مُشْكِلٌ

A dubious, confused, or difficult matter.

Used substantively for a problem requiring clarification or resolution.

• Lane · entry 39076

مُشْكِلٌ

Having white markings on the flanks.

A specialized equestrian adjective.

• Lane · entry 39076

مُشَكَّلٌ

Endowed with a pleasing aspect, appearance, or form.

An adjective describing good or attractive shaping.

• Lane · entry 39077

مَشْكُولٌ

A horse bound or shackled with a شِكَال.

A passive participial usage derived from the animal-binding sense.

• Lane · entry 39078

مَشْكُولٌ

A horse bearing the distinctive white-leg markings called شِكَالٌ.

A figurative or specialized equestrian usage distinct from actual binding.

• Lane · entry 39078

مَشْكُولٌ

Writing supplied with grammatical, vocalic, and diacritical signs.

A technical passive participle describing text whose pronunciation has been marked or restricted.

• Lane · entry 39078