عقل

عَقَلَ

To bind or fasten, especially to tie a camel’s foreleg with an عِقَال; hence, to hold back or restrain.

The physical use concerns binding an animal; the extended use concerns restraining a person from an aim or want.

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عَقَلَ

To have sexual intercourse.

A metonymic use derived from the binding of a woman’s limbs; it is a Classical Arabic idiom, not a Quranic sense of the supplied verb group.

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عَقَلَ

To pay or provide the bloodwit for a slain person; عَقَلَ عَنْهُ means to pay it on someone’s behalf, and عَقَلَ لَهُ دَمَ فُلَانٍ to relinquish retaliation in exchange for it.

A legal and customary use involving blood compensation and the parties responsible for it.

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عَقَلَ

To set a person up on one leg by raising or positioning it.

A physical action derived from the binding or raising of a limb.

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عَقَلَ

Of medicine, to bind or confine the bowels; to act as an astringent.

Also used of the belly when it becomes confined or stops running.

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عَقَلَ عَلَى

To collect or exact the poor-rate of a people or group.

The construction عَقَلَ عَلَى القَوْمِ is used for collecting their obligatory levy.

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عَقَلَ

To throw an opponent in wrestling by twisting one’s leg around or against his leg.

A specialized wrestling technique involving the legs.

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عَقَلَ شَعَرَهَا

Of a woman, to comb her hair, especially in a specified manner.

The supplied evidence attests the expression as a conventional use; the reference to a woman belongs to the expression itself.

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عَقِلَ

To become intelligent or to become possessed of understanding.

This is an intransitive state or change-of-state use, distinct from the transitive sense ‘to understand a thing.’

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عَقَلَ

Of a mountain goat or gazelle, to make itself inaccessible in a mountain; also, to betake oneself to someone or somewhere for refuge, protection, shelter, or lodging.

The animal use describes seeking safety in elevated terrain; the broader construction عَقَلَ إِلَيْهِ means to seek refuge or lodging.

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عَقَلَ الظِّلُّ

Of shade, to decline, contract, or nearly disappear at midday.

Describes the shortening of shade as the sun rises high.

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عَاقُولٌ

A thorny plant upon which camels graze, identified with the prickly hedysarum or alhagi.

Also used for the plant in Egyptian and related botanical contexts.

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عَقِلَ

Of a camel, to have a twisting, excessive spreading, or knocking together of the hind legs or knees.

A physical defect of an animal’s hind limbs.

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مَا أَعْقِلُهُ عَنْكَ

A reported phrase interpreted as ‘dismiss doubt from yourself.’

The evidence records the phrase as disputed and says that it was considered an error for مَا أَغْفَلَهُ; it is therefore not a secure productive meaning of the root.

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لَا تَعْقِلُ الإِبَارَ

Of a palm tree, not to receive fecundation.

A figurative or tropical expression recorded in Classical usage.

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عَقَّلَ

To render someone intelligent or make him possess understanding.

A causative Form II use, distinct from the intransitive state of being intelligent.

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عَقَّلَ

Of a grapevine, to put forth its first, sour grapes.

A botanical use referring to grapes in their early sour state.

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عَاقَلَ

To be treated as equal in bloodwit, or to exchange bloodwit liability on an equal basis up to a specified threshold.

The attested legal formulation concerns the comparative bloodwits of a woman and a man up to one-third of the woman’s full bloodwit.

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عَاقَلَ

To compete with someone in intelligence and surpass him in it.

A reciprocal Form III use concerning comparison or rivalry in understanding.

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أَعْقَلَ

To owe what is termed an عِقَال, namely a year’s poor-rate.

A Form IV use in the terminology of obligatory levies.

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أَعْقَلَ

Of a people, to enter the condition in which the shade has declined and contracted at midday.

A Form IV intransitive use derived from the specialized shade sense.

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أَعْقَلَ

To find or judge someone to be intelligent.

A Form IV evaluative construction.

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تَعَقَّلَ

To place or interlace one’s hands so that another person can use them as a step to mount a camel.

Attested in the expression تَعَقَّلْ لِي بِكَفَّيْكَ; the meaning is a physical supporting arrangement.

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تَعَقَّلَ

To conceive something in the mind, especially abstractly; to regard it as intelligible or conceivable.

A philosophical or technical use, as in saying that something is not conceivable.

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تَعَقَّلَ

To recover one’s understanding or to exert oneself to acquire intelligence.

The intransitive use can describe restoration of understanding or deliberate cultivation of it.

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تَعَقَّلَ

Of a hunted animal, to become caught or stuck in a net or similar trap.

The evidence describes this as a coined, nonstandard hunting term.

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تَعَاقَلُوا

To pay or share bloodwits among themselves jointly.

A reciprocal or collective legal use concerning mutual payment of blood compensation.

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تَعَاقَلَ

To affect or pretend to possess intelligence without actually possessing it.

A reciprocal or behavioral use describing a display of عقل.

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اِعْتَقَلَ

To be withheld, restrained, or confined; of the tongue, to be prevented from speaking.

The passive form اُعْتُقِلَ and the intransitive Form VIII construction describe confinement or inability to speak.

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اِعْتَقَلَ

To place or fold a limb, spear, saddle part, or similar object between the leg and another support.

Includes putting a ewe’s hind legs between one’s thigh and shin while milking, carrying a spear beneath the thigh, and folding the leg onto a saddle support.

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الاِعْتِقَالُ

To insert one leather strip beneath another while sewing a skin, strengthening it and preventing water from passing through.

A technical leatherworking use.

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اِعْتَقَلَ مِنْ

To take or receive the bloodwit for someone’s blood.

The construction اِعْتَقَلَ مِنْ دَمِ فُلَانٍ or مِنْ طَائِلَتِهِ concerns receiving the compensation owed.

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اِسْتَعْقَلَ

To count, account, or esteem someone as intelligent.

A Form X evaluative use derived from عاقل.

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عَقْلٌ

Bloodwit or a mulct for bloodshed.

A substantive use of the verbal noun; the plural is مَعَاقِلُ. The term is explained through the traditional binding of camels collected as compensation.

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عَقْلٌ

Intelligence, understanding, intellect, mind, reason, or knowledge.

Can denote the faculty prepared to receive knowledge or the understanding and knowledge acquired through it; it may also mean the capacity to distinguish sound from unsound or better from worse.

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عَقْلٌ

A fortress.

This sense is explicitly reported as doubtful and is cross-referred to مَعْقِلٌ.

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عَقْلٌ

A kind of red or figured cloth used to cover a camel vehicle or made as a patterned textile.

A material-culture term with several recorded descriptions of the cloth’s color and pattern.

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عُقْلَةٌ

A bond like an عِقَال or a shackle.

A concrete restraint or fastening.

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عُقْلَةٌ

An impediment or obstruction, including an impediment attributed to enchantment.

The magical use occurs in the expression بِهِ عُقْلَةٌ مِنَ السِّحْرِ.

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عُقْلَةٌ

A wrestling technique consisting of twisting one’s leg with another’s.

A nominal designation for the action described under عَقَلَ.

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عُقْلَةٌ

A twisting or obstruction of the tongue when one wants to speak.

A speech-related physical or expressive impediment.

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عُقْلَةٌ

In geomancers’ terminology, a configuration consisting of a unit, a pair, and a unit, represented by two parallel bars with a small circle above and below.

A specialized technical meaning, also called ثِقَافٌ.

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عَقْلِيٌّ

Intellectual; relating to the intellect.

An attributive adjective derived from عَقْلٌ.

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عِقَالٌ

A rope used to bind a camel’s foreleg to its arm, with the two folded together.

The plural is عُقُلٌ.

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عِقَالٌ

A year’s poor-rate or obligatory levy, especially a levy consisting of camels, sheep, or goats.

The term may refer to the livestock levy itself, its value, or, in some interpretations, the rope given with the livestock.

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عِقَالٌ

A young she-camel of the kind called قَلُوص.

A zoological or pastoral noun distinct from the rope and levy senses.

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عِقَالُ المِئِينَ

A high-ranking man whose ransom, if captured, is paid in hundreds of camels.

A conventional expression concerning ransom value.

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عَقُولٌ

A medicine that binds, confines, or astringes the bowels.

A noun for an astringent medicine.

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عَقِيلَةٌ

A noble or highly esteemed woman; by extension, the finest or most excellent member or example of a kind, including a chief or an excellent camel.

The primary social use concerns a woman of generous lineage who is kept in seclusion and held in high esteem; the extended use applies to substantial or ideal things.

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عَقِيلَةُ البَحْرِ

A pearl, especially a large, clear, or choice pearl.

A conventional designation of a prized pearl as the finest treasure of the sea.

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عُقَيْلِيَّةٌ

A hardy, excellent, highly esteemed camel of Najd.

Used attributively with camels.

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عُقَّالٌ

A disease or slight lameness affecting an animal’s legs, especially the hind legs, causing it to limp intermittently.

The expression دَاءٌ ذُو عُقَّالٍ describes a disease from which recovery does not occur.

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عُقَّالُ الكَلَأِ

The three herbs that remain after cutting, identified as السعدانة, الحُلَّب, and القُطْبَة.

A specialized pastoral and botanical collective term.

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عَقَاقِيلُ

The raised or supported portions of a grapevine.

A plural expression for vine branches trained on a trellis or similar support.

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عُقَّيْلَى

Grapes in their first, sour state.

A botanical noun for unripe or early sour grapes.

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العِقِّيلَى

An idiomatic expression equated with شَغْزَبَ and شَغْرَبَ, denoting a named physical twisting or struggling action.

The supplied evidence preserves the synonymic equation but does not resolve the precise English nuance of the expression.

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عَاقِلٌ

A payer of bloodwit; collectively, the paternal relatives or allied group responsible for paying compensation for an accidental killing.

The collective عَاقِلَة may include paternal male relatives, registered members of a group, or another legally recognized body responsible for the payment.

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عَاقِلٌ

Possessing intelligence or understanding; rational or intelligent.

Applied to a man or woman; the evidence also records a more intensive form and several plural patterns.

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عَاقِلٌ

A mountain goat or gazelle that protects itself in an inaccessible mountain.

A zoological epithet derived from the animal’s seeking refuge in elevated terrain.

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عَاقِلَةٌ

A female comber of the hair.

An occupational or agent noun distinct from the bloodwit collective and the adjective meaning intelligent.

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عَاقُولٌ

A bent portion or place of bending in a river, valley, or sand; an angle or winding.

The plural عَوَاقِيلُ is used for bends or angles, especially in valleys.

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عَاقُولٌ

The main or central part of the sea, or its waves.

A nautical or topographical use.

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عَاقُولٌ

Land in which one cannot readily find the right way because of its many windings.

A geographical description based on winding or confusing terrain.

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عَوَاقِيلُ الأُمُورِ

The confused, complicated, or dubious aspects of affairs.

A figurative plural expression derived from winding or entangled terrain.

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عَوَاقِيلُ

Evil actions or things that cause trouble; hence, a person who produces such complications.

Used in the expression إِنَّهُ لَذُو عَوَاقِيلَ.

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عَقَنْقَلٌ

A great heap or extended hill of intermingled, accumulated sand.

The plural includes عَقَاقِلُ and عَقَاقِيلُ; the form reflects massing, winding, or interweaving.

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عَقَنْقَلٌ

A great or wide valley.

A topographical noun with the same plural patterns as the sand sense.

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عَقَنْقَلٌ

The intestines or related internal portion of a ضَبّ, a desert lizard.

The term is also associated with the animal’s كُشْيَة; the expression urging one to feed a brother from it is proverbial and variably interpreted.

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عَقَنْقَلٌ

A drinking cup or bowl.

A separately attested nominal use.

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عَقَنْقَلٌ

A sword.

A separately attested nominal use.

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أَعْقَلُ

Of a camel, having the hind-leg twisting or defect called عَقَلٌ.

The feminine form عَقْلَاءُ is applied to a she-camel.

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أَعْقَلُ

More intelligent or most intelligent.

A comparative or superlative adjective related to عَاقِلٌ.

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مَعْقِلٌ

A place of refuge, protection, preservation, shelter, or lodging; a fortress.

Used literally of a refuge or stronghold and metaphorically of a person who is the refuge of his people.

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مَعْقِلٌ

A place where camels are bound with an عِقَال.

A concrete pastoral use underlying the broader refuge sense.

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مَعْقُلَةٌ

A place that retains rainwater.

This sense is tentatively implied in the cited lexical evidence.

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مَعْقِلِيٌّ

A variety of dates, or fresh ripe dates, associated with al-Basrah.

The designation is explained as a nisbah to the personal name مَعْقِل بن يسار.

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مُعَقَّلَةٌ

Bound with the rope called عِقَال; of a she-camel, bound in that manner during covering.

The plural مُعَقَّلَاتٌ is also applied metaphorically to women in a similar sense.

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مَعْقُولٌ

Perceived by the intellect, intelligible, or approved as reasonable.

A technical passive-participial adjective used especially for knowledge or propositions that are intellectually conceived rather than simply transmitted; the plural مَعْقُولَاتٌ has the same branch of meaning.

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