Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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1. ⇒ مثل

مَثَلَ aor. ـُ {يَمْثُلُ}, inf. n. مُثُولٌ; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ, &c.;) and مَثُلَ; (M, Ḳ;) He stood erect; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ, &c.;) بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ before him. (Ṣ, &c.)

Root: مثل - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

مَثَلَ بِهِ, inf. n. مُثْلَةٌ, He mutilated him; castrated him; namely, a sheep or goat. (TA in art. دجن, from a trad.)


2. ⇒ مثّل

Root: مثل - Entry: 2. Signification: A2

مَثَّلَهُ: see شَبَّهَهُ.


3. ⇒ ماثل

مَاثَلَهُ i. q. شَابَهَهُ. (TA.)


4. ⇒ امثل

أَمْثَلَهُ He set it up: from مَثَلَ “he stood erect.”

Root: مثل - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

He set up a butt or mark: see an ex. voce غَرَضٌ.


5. ⇒ تمثّل

تَمَثَّلَ بِكَذَا [He affected to be like, or imitated, such a thing;] i. q. تَشَبَّهَ بِهِ. (TA, art. شبه.)

Root: مثل - Entry: 5. Signification: A2

تَمَثَّلَ البَيْتَ and [more commonly] بِالبَيْتِ He used, or applied, the verse as a proverb, or proverbially. (MA.)

Root: مثل - Entry: 5. Signification: A3

6. ⇒ تماثل

تَمَاثَلَ He became nearly in a sound, or healthy, state; or near to convalescence: (Ḳ:) or he became more like the sound, or healthy, than the unsound, or unhealthy, who is suffering from a chronic and pervading disease; (TA;) or so تماثل لِلْبُرْءِ. (M.) Said also of a wound: (T, Ṣ in art. دمل:) and of a disease; like أَشْكَلَ. (TA, art. شكل.)

Root: مثل - Entry: 6. Signification: A2

تَمَاثَلَا i. q. تَشَابَهَا. (M, Ḳ in art. سوى.)


8. ⇒ امتثل

اِمْتَثَلَ أَمْرَهُ He followed his command, order, bidding, or injunction; did like as he commanded, ordered, &c.; (Mgh;) he obeyed his command, order, &c. (Mṣb.)


مِثْلٌ

مِثْلٌ A like; a similar person or thing; match; fellow; an analogue. (Ḳ, &c.) See نِدٌّ and voce بَدَلٌ.

Root: مثل - Entry: مِثْلٌ Signification: A2

A likeness, resemblance, or semblance; see شَبَهٌ.

Root: مثل - Entry: مِثْلٌ Signification: A3

An equivalent; a requital.

Root: مثل - Entry: مِثْلٌ Signification: A4

مِثْلَ, used as a denotative of state, means Like. Ex. مَرَّ مِثْلَ البَرْقِ He passed like the lightning. See an ex. in the Ḳur li. 23; and another, from Sakhr-el-Gheí, voce فَرْضٌ.


مَثَلٌ

مَثَلٌ i. q. صِفَةٌ [as meaning A description, condition, state, case,, &c.]; (Ṣ, Ḳ, &c.;) or وَصْفٌ [meaning the same]: (Mṣb:) or this is a mistake: (Mbr, AAF, TA:) or it may be a tropical signification: (MF, TA:) for in the language of the Arabs it means a description by way of comparison: (AAF, TA:) you say مثل زيد مثل فلان [The description of Zeyd, by way of comparison, or the condition, &c., is that of such a one]: it is from المِثاَلُ and الحَذْوُ: (Mbr, TA:) it is metaphorically applied to a condition, state, or case, that is important, strange, or wonderful. (Ksh, Bḍ in ii. 16.) The phrase here given is more literally, and better, rendered, The similitude of Zeyd is the similitude, or is that, of such a one; for a similitude is a description by way of comparison.

Root: مثل - Entry: مَثَلٌ Signification: A2

You say also, جَعَلَهُ مَثَلًا لِكَذَا [He made it (an expression or the like) to be descriptive, by way of comparison, of such a thing]. (TA passim.) [And مَثَلٌ لِكَذَا means An expression denoting, by way of similitude, such a thing.]

Root: مثل - Entry: مَثَلٌ Signification: A3

عَلَى المَثَلِ As indicative of resemblance to something.

Root: مثل - Entry: مَثَلٌ Signification: A4

مِثَالٌ

مِثَالٌ Quality, made, manner, fashion, and form; (Mṣb;) a model according to which another thing is made or proportioned; a pattern, (مِقْدَارٌ) by which a thing is measured, proportioned, or cut out: (T:) an example of a class of words, of a rule, &c.

Root: مثل - Entry: مِثَالٌ Signification: A2

مِنْ غَيْرِ سَبْقِ مِثاَلٍ [Without there having been any precedent]. (Mṣb in art. قرح, &c.)

Root: مثل - Entry: مِثَالٌ Signification: A3

[A bed:] بَناَتُ المِثَالِ The daughters of the bed; meaning women. (T in art. بنى.)


مَاثِلٍ

جَوْزُ مَاثِلٍ: see جَوْزٌ.


تَمَاثِيلُ

تَمَاثِيلُ, in the following hemistich of Ibn-Aḥmar,

* تَمَاثِيلُ قِرْطَاسٍ عَلَى هَبْهَبِيَّةٍ *

signifies كُتُبٌ يَكْتُبُونَهَا. (L, in TA, voce هَبْهَبِىٌّ, as signifying a “light, or active,” camel.)


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