شمل

شَمِلَ

To include or encompass people or things collectively; to have an event or effect befall them in common.

The object may be good, evil, or an event generally; the usage is broader than the Quranic left-side noun and the Form VIII containment construction.

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شَمِلَ

To cover or envelop someone with a garment or covering.

Used with a garment such as a شَمْلَةٌ or مِشْمَلَةٌ.

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شَمِلَ

To be sufficient in size or dimensions for someone.

Said of a garment or covering that fits or accommodates its wearer.

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شَمِلَتْ

Of a she-camel, to admit impregnating seed or conceive.

Used with a she-camel and the stallion from which she conceived.

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شَمِلَتِ الإِبِلُ

To conceal or contain an animal within a dense multitude.

Especially said when a camel enters and is hidden among a herd.

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شَمَلَ

To put a protective شِمَالٌ upon an ewe’s or she-goat’s udder.

The covering or bag is bound around the udder.

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شَمَلَ بِهِ

To take the direction of the left hand.

A verbal construction equivalent to taking the leftward direction.

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شَمَلَتِ الرِّيحُ

For the wind to shift to, or blow from, a northerly direction.

The wind is identified with the north wind شَمَالٌ.

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شَمَلَ الخَمْرَ

To expose wine to the north wind so that it becomes cold or cool.

A conventional verbal construction involving the north wind.

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شُمِلُوا

To be struck or blown upon by the north wind.

Variant vocalizations are reported for the verb.

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شَمَلَ النَّخْلَةَ

To pick the ripe dates remaining upon a palm-tree.

The usage may refer especially to the few dates left on the tree.

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تَشْمِيلٌ

Taking or grasping with the left hand.

A nominal usage connected with شِمَالٌ, “the left.”

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شَمَّلَ

To bind pieces of cloth beneath the racemes of a palm-tree.

The bindings protect fruit from being shaken off.

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أَشْمَلَ

Of a stallion-camel, to get a portion of a herd of she-camels with young.

The reported range is from approximately half to two-thirds of the herd.

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أَشْمَلَهُ

To give someone a شَمْلَةٌ, a covering garment.

The meaning is tied to the garment noun شَمْلَةٌ.

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أَشْمَلَ

To become the possessor of a مِشْمَلَةٌ or مِشْمَلٌ, a wrapping garment.

A possession or acquisition construction.

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أَشْمَلُوا

To enter a period in which the north wind blows.

Used analogously to verbs meaning to enter the season or influence of another named wind.

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اِشْتَمَلَ / تَشَمَّلَ

To wrap or inwrap oneself with a garment.

The garment may cover the body wholly, be thrown over the left side, or be wrapped around an object such as a sword. The Form VIII construction also has the separate Quranic sense “to contain.”

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اِنْشَمَلَ

To pass along energetically, exert oneself, hasten, or go quickly.

Used in connection with pursuing or attending to one’s needful affair.

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اِنْشَمَلَ

To become contracted or drawn together.

Reported especially of a she-camel’s udder.

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شَمْلٌ

A united or composed state of affairs, or conversely a disunited or discomposed state.

The idioms جَمَعَ شَمْلَهُ and شَتَّتَ شَمْلَهُ respectively restore or disrupt a person’s or group’s affairs.

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شَمْلٌ

A raceme or fruit cluster of a palm-tree.

The term may specify a cluster with little fruit or from which some fruit has been picked.

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شَمْلٌ

Fear or fright resembling insanity.

A conventional expression is شَمْلٌ مِنْ جُنُونٍ.

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شَمَلٌ

A quarter, shelter, or protection.

Used in the expression “to be in someone’s shelter or protection.”

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شَمَلٌ

A small or sparse quantity of dates, rain, people, camels, or similar things.

The lexical branch denotes scant remainder or small number rather than comprehensive inclusion.

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شَمِلٌ

Thin or slender.

Attested of a camel’s tail or similar narrow part.

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شَمْلَةٌ

A small woollen or hair garment used to wrap the body or wear as a waist-wrapper.

The term covers several closely related forms of wrapping garment, including one used at night.

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شَمْلَةٌ

A covering of darkness conceived as contracting around someone.

A figurative idiom for night’s darkness closing in.

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أُمُّ شَمْلَةَ

The present world or its enjoyments.

A figurative epithet based on its being said to envelop and obscure the intellect.

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شَمْلَةٌ

Wine, conceived as enveloping and obscuring the intellect.

A figurative naming of wine based on its effect on the mind.

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شَمْلَةٌ

The sun.

A rare lexical application reported without a further construction.

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شِمْلَةٌ

A mode or manner of wrapping oneself with a garment.

Includes the legally disliked mode called اِشْتِمَالُ الصَّمَّاءِ.

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شِمِلٌّ

Light, active, agile, or swift.

Applied especially to a camel; the source also records a separate interpretation involving the left hand or arm.

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شِمِلٌّ

The left hand or arm, as an alternative lexical form related to شِمَالٌ.

This is an alternative interpretation reported within the same lexical discussion as the adjective meaning “swift.”

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شَمَالٌ

The north or northerly wind.

The term is also used adjectivally and has several recorded regional descriptions of its point of origin.

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شَمَالٌ

An odor perceived from someone, apparently especially an unpleasant odor.

A figurative extension of the north-wind term.

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شِمَالٌ

Ill luck, unluckiness, or evil fortune.

Used in expressions for birds or events regarded as ominous.

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شِمَالٌ

A handful of grain or seed-produce grasped by a reaper.

A specialized agricultural usage.

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شِمَالٌ

A bag placed over the udder of an ewe or goat when it is heavy with milk.

The term may be specialized to the she-goat; a related object is used on palm racemes.

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شِمَالٌ

A protective covering or support attached to a palm raceme.

Made from pieces of cloth to prevent fruit from being shaken off.

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شِمَالٌ

A mark made with a hot iron on the udder of a ewe or goat.

A specialized pastoral term.

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شِمَالٌ / شَمَائِلُ

A nature, natural disposition, or temperament.

The metaphor presents disposition as enveloping or constraining a person; the plural شَمَائِلُ is also used.

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شَمُولٌ

Wine, especially wine described as cool to the taste or enveloping the intellect.

The explanations connect the term either with the north wind’s force or with wine’s effect on the mind.

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شَمَالَةٌ

The hiding place or blind of a hunter or sportsman.

The plural is reported as شَمَائِلُ.

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شَمَالِيٌّ

Northern or pertaining to the quarter of the north wind.

The same adjective is also reported as a designation for a cold day.

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شَمَالِيلُ

Shoots that branch or diverge at the heads of branches, like palm fruit-stalks.

A botanical usage of the plural form.

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شَمَالِيلَ

In separate parties; dispersed or scattered.

Used of people who have gone away in distinct groups.

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شَمَالِيلُ

A garment or piece of cloth torn or slit in several places.

Compared with شَمَاطِيطُ.

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شَمَالِيلُ

Reportedly, the remains of date kernels or similar remnants.

The source expressly questions whether this reading is correctly transcribed.

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شَامِلٌ

Comprehensive, general, or universal in effect or scope.

Said of an event, case, or other matter whose influence includes persons or things generally.

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شَامِلٌ

A black colour overspread with another colour.

A specialized description of mixed or overlaid coloration.

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مِشْمَلٌ

A short, slender sword carried under or covered by a man’s garment.

Compared with a مِغْوَلٌ.

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مَشْمَلَةٌ

The place or quarter from which the north wind blows.

A geographical noun derived from the north-wind branch.

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مِشْمَالٌ

A large wrapping garment or mantle.

A garment with which one wraps or inwraps oneself.

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مَشْمُولٌ

Struck or cooled by the north wind.

Applied to a person, meadow, pool, fire, wine, or cold night according to the object; wine may thereby become cool and pleasant.

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مَشْمُولُ الخَلَائِقِ

Of agreeable or commended natural dispositions; in an opposing usage, of blameworthy or evil dispositions.

The polarity varies with the reported interpretation and context.

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نَوًى مَشْمُولَةٌ

A destination or tract associated with separation of friends, or one quickly exposed or cleared; another interpretation connects it with taking the leftward direction.

This is an idiomatic phrase with several reported interpretations rather than a single settled gloss.

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لَيْلَةٌ مَشْمُولَةٌ

A night in which a frightened woman became pregnant.

An idiomatic explanation based on fright resembling insanity.

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مُشْتَمِلٌ بِسَيْفِهِ

Having a sword wrapped or carried under one’s garment.

A conventional expression comparable to being girded or draped with the sword.

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مُشْتَمِلٌ عَلَى دَاهِيَةٍ

Conceiving, carrying, or bringing a calamity.

A figurative construction using the language of enclosing or carrying something.

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