أبل

أَبِلَ / إِبَالَةٌ / تَأْبِيلٌ

Skill in managing and tending camels; management, care, or fattening of camels, and in one usage of sheep or goats.

Used of a person skilled in camel care and of the practice of tending or improving the condition of camels.

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أَبَّلَ / تَأَبَّلَ

To take, gain, acquire, or keep camels as permanent property.

The verb describes acquiring camels for lasting possession rather than merely tending animals.

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أَبِلَ / أَبَّلَ

Of camels, to become numerous; of a person, to have a numerous camel herd.

The use may describe the increase of the camels themselves or the abundance of a person's camels.

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أَبَلَهُ

To assign or give someone camels for pasturing, whether pastured under care or left to pasture themselves.

A causative construction involving the provision of camels as livestock.

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أَبِلَ / آبِلٌ

Of camels or wild animals, to be content with green pasture and dispense with water.

The expression describes animals sustained by fresh pasture so that they do not need to drink.

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أَبَلَ / تَأَبَّلَ

To abstain from conjugal or sexual intercourse.

Used with عن and describing abstention from a spouse; the construction is extended from an animal's dispensing with water.

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أَبَلَ

To devote oneself to religious exercises or become a religious devotee.

A figurative or extended use associated with abstention and ascetic practice.

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أَبَلَ

To overcome, resist, or withstand.

A reported extended use, distinguished from the more common verb أَبَلَّ.

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أَبَلَ / آبِلٌ

Of camels, to be left to pasture freely without a herder, and consequently to become wild or shy.

Used of camels released from supervision or behaving as untamed animals.

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أَبَلَتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels, to seek successive or regrown portions of pasture gradually, step by step.

The construction concerns following seasonal or renewed herbage in small successive portions.

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أَبَلَ

To remain or abide in a place or in pasture, especially for a long time.

Used of camels remaining in a grazing place.

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أُبُلٌ / أَبَلَ العُشْبُ

Regrown or seasonal green herbage among dry vegetation, including growth tall enough for camels to feed and fatten.

The term may refer to renewed pasture after a period of dryness or to green growth appearing in dried vegetation and trees.

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لَا يَأْتَبِلُ

To fail to manage camels well or to fail to remain steady on them while riding.

The negative Form VIII expression is used of inadequate camel care or inability to stay firmly mounted.

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أَبِلٌ / آبِلٌ

A person who possesses camels.

This is a nominal description of a camel-owner, distinct from the adjective describing skill in managing camels.

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أَبِلٌ

A fleshy male camel.

An adjective applied specifically to a male camel in the cited usage.

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أَبِلَةٌ

A she-camel blessed or prospering in offspring.

Applied to a female camel with increased or successful reproduction.

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الإِبِلُ الصُّغْرَى

An appellation for sheep.

The expression is explained as arising from their eating more than goats; this is a special lexical application, not the ordinary meaning of إبل.

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أُبْلَةٌ

A blight, blast, taint, or similar affliction affecting produce such as dates.

Reported in a saying concerning selling dates before security from the affliction.

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إِبْلَةٌ

Enmity or hostility.

An independent nominal meaning.

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أَبَلَةٌ

Unwholesomeness or heaviness of food.

The noun may describe food that is burdensome or unhealthy, and by extension a quality departing from property after alms have been paid.

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أَبَلَةٌ

An evil or harmful quality in herbage or pasture.

Applied specifically to a detrimental property of grazing vegetation.

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أَبَلَةٌ

Harm, mischief, a harmful consequence, a fault, or a cause of blame or dispraise.

The word can denote an injury-related consequence or claim, a vice or fault, and the blame attached to an action.

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أَبَلَةٌ

A crime, sin, or unlawful action.

A moral and legal application of the noun.

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أَبَلَةٌ

Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite.

An affective meaning describing persistent hostile feeling.

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إِبَلِيٌّ

Of or relating to camels.

A nisbah adjective formed from the camel noun.

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أَبِيلٌ

A Christian monk or religious devotee; also, specifically, a chief monk in some usages.

The term is associated with abstention from women and religious devotion; it can designate a monk or devotee rather than a general religious practitioner.

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أَبِيلٌ

An elder or chief of the Christians, or the person who calls them to prayer by striking a bell.

These are ecclesiastical or communal designations reported for the same noun; the expression أَبِيلُ الأَبِيلِينَ is also used as a title for Jesus.

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أَبِيلٌ

Mourning or sorrowing in Syriac.

A meaning explicitly attributed to the Syriac language rather than presented as ordinary Arabic usage.

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أَبِيلٌ

A staff or stick.

An independent nominal meaning.

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إِبَالَةٌ

A bundle or great bundle of firewood, or a bundle of dry herbage.

The noun is also used in the proverbial expression صِغْثٌ عَلَى إِبَالَةٍ.

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إِبَالَةٌ

An additional trial, burden, or trying event imposed upon one that has already occurred; proverbially, abundance upon abundance.

A conventional figurative interpretation of the firewood-bundle proverb, with two reported readings of its force.

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أَبَّالٌ

A camel pastor who manages or takes good care of camels.

A personal noun denoting the responsible herder rather than the act of management.

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مَأْبَلَةٌ

Land having camels.

Used in the phrase أَرْضٌ مَأْبَلَةٌ.

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آبَلٌ

More or most skilled in the management and care of camels.

A comparative or superlative nominal adjective used in expressions praising exceptional camel-handling skill.

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