فيل

thus in some copies of the K and in the A, or فَيْلُولَةٌ, thus in other copies of the K, and فَيَالَةٌ, thus in the O; but in the copies of the K فَيْلَة.

فَيَّلُوا occurs in a tradition meaning فال رَأْيُهُمْ.

[And فَالَ alone, said of a man, means the same as فال رَأْيُهُ, as is shown by a verse of El-Kumeyt: but it seems from what follows here (taken from a passage unconnected with the foregoing) that the first and third of the maṣdars mentioned above are regarded by some as simple nouns:]

[Not فُيِّلَ.]

The last word is like سَحَابَةٌ; in the CK, wrongly, فى رِوَايَةٍ فِيَالَةٌ.

It may mean this. IAar cites the verse:

which may mean [Of mankind are folks who, when they find riches, turn the back, and] magnify themselves and become like the elephant [to the friend, and aggrandize themselves], or show a morose face to the friend; for the elephant is morose in aspect.

The word for elephant here is الفِيل.

he declared [or considered] his judgment, or opinion, to be weak, or bad, and erroneous.

Umeiyeh Ibn Abee-'Áïdh says:

which SKr explains by the phrase given here: [But if you had praised someone other than her, of the children of Kaab Ibn-Káhil, with a true saying,] your judgment would not have been declared weak.

[Maṣdar مُفَايَلَةٌ and فِيَالٌ; see الفَيَالُ below.]

See its ism fāʿil below.

See form 1.

Said of a man, or, as the O indicates, of a camel: he became fat, as though he were a فِيل [or elephant].

[See also form 10.]

Said of a camel: he became like the فِيل [or elephant] in bigness.

Mentioned by IJ among the class of اسْتَحْوَذَ and the like.

Ism fāʿil مُسْتَفْيِلٌ.

[See also form 5.]

See فِيلٌ, latter half.

And see the paragraph beginning with فَائِلُ الرَّأْىِ, near its end.

And see also فَأْلٌ, in art. فأل.

See the paragraph that follows here.

[The elephant; Persian پيل] a certain animal, well known.

Plural of paucity أَفْيَالٌ; of multitude فُيُولٌ and فِيَلَةٌ, not أَفْيِلَةٌ, according to Sb.

فِيلٌ may originally be of the measure فُعْلٌ, pronounced with kesr because of the ى, just as they said أَبْيَضُ and بيضٌ; but Akh says this is not so in the singular, only in the plural.

Feminine with ة.

The headword is a noun and also a maṣdar [of form 3]; المُفَايَلَةُ is likewise a maṣdar of form 3.

A thing is hidden in earth, or dust, which is then divided into two portions; the hider then asks his companion, In which of the two is it? and if the other guesses wrong the hider says to him فَالَ رَأْيُكَ.

ISk called it الفِئَالُ, with ء, and it has been mentioned before in art. فأل.

According to some, this game is called الطَّبَنُ and السُدَّرُ. [But see the first of these two words.]

See the first paragraph.

See the first paragraph.

A man having much flesh.

Some pronounce it with ء, saying فَيأَل or فَئِل, both mentioned before [in art. فأل].

The attendant, or master, or keeper, or driver, of the فِيل [or elephant], or of the فِيلَة.

See فِيلٌ, latter half, in two places.

That is, the flesh upon the خُرْبَة, or خُرْب (in the M, according to the TT, حرف, apparently a miscopying), of the وَرِك. [I think what follows will plainly show this to mean the flesh upon the sacro-ischiatic foramen; though خُرْبَةُ الوَرِكِ and خُرْبُ الوَرِكِ are said in the TA, in art. خرب, to mean “the hole where the head of the thigh-bone is inserted.”] So says A 'Obeyd.

Or, as some say — A 'Obeyd adds — a certain vein in the خُرْبَة of the وَرِك, descending into the leg; or in the thigh.

As says, in “the Book of the Horse,” that in the وَرِك is the خُرْبَة, which is a نُقْرَة containing flesh, with no bone in it; and in that نُقْرَة is the فَائِل; and there is no bone between that نقرة and the belly, but only skin and flesh. He cites the saying of El-Aashà:

[Oft we stain the ridge of the spear-head in what is concealed in the interior of his فائل, and oft the man of valour dies by means of our spears].

مَكْنُونُ الفَائِلِ means his blood; he says, by implication, that we are skilful in hitting the right place for piercing.

But As said مِنْ in place of فِى, and AA said قَدْ نَطْعُنُ, which has been pronounced wrong.

Or the فَائِلَانِ, or the فَائِلَتَانِ (so in the K, apparently a miscopying), are two veins entering the inner parts of the thighs at their hinder parts; and the verse of El-Aashà quoted above is adduced as evidence for this, since the adjective مكنون would not have been used if the فائل were not a vein.

But others say that the poet meant that he made the spear-head disappear in the furthest part of the flesh; and if the فائل were a vein, it would not have been mentioned as it is in a phrase of Imra-el-Keys cited below.

[Hence it is said,] or they are two portions of flesh [between which is the lower part of the os sacrum, that is,] whose lower parts are upon the صَلَوَان [dual of صَلًا], from the region of the lower portions of the حَجَبَتَانِ to the عَجْب bordering on the عُصْعُص on either side, descending along the two sides of the thighs; [so in a human being,] and so also in the horse.

الفَالُ is a dialectal variant of الفَائِلُ, which Sgh [in the O] explains as a certain vein issuing from the فَوَّارَة of the وَرِك [that is, from the sacro-ischiatic foramen].

[But the claim that الفال is a dialectal variant of الفائل seems to rest only on what follows:]

Imra-el-Keys says, describing a horse:

[that is, He has edges of the haunch-bones projecting above, or beyond, the فائل], for he means على فَائِلِ, having altered that word by transposition.

See its dual in the preceding paragraph, near the middle.

A proverb, mentioned by Meyd.

[More, and most, weak, or erroneous; of a judgment, or an opinion.]

[In the S and O, in art. فأل, with ء, that is, مُفَائِلٌ.]

Playing at the game called الفَيَالُ.

Explained as a noun: see الفَيَالُ.

[An ism jamʿ, but one whose singular, if it has one, is not mentioned.]

The young ones of the فِيل [or elephant].

Ism fāʿil of form 10, which see.