Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَحَلَ † He put out, or blinded, an eye with a heated nail, &c.: see an ex. voce سَمَرَ.

مَا ٱكْتَحَلْتُ غَمَاضًا and غِمَاضًا, &c.: see أَغْمَضَ. See also حَثاَثٌ.

اِسْتَكْحَلَ السَّهَرَ † [He became sleepless; as though he took sleeplessness as a collyrium]. (TA in art. حلس, from a trad.)

كَحْلٌ and كَحْلُ (Ṣ, Ḳ) A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth; (Ṣ;) a hard year. (Ḳ.)

كُحَيْلٌ a proper name for A horse of high breed; as alsoكُحَيْلاَنٌ↓. (TA.)

كُحَيْلٌ Tar (قَطِرَان) in the dial. of El-Ḥijáz. (TA, voce غَرْبٌ; from the T.) See نفْظٌ.

كُحَيْلاَنٌ: see كُحَيْلٌ.

عَيْنٌ كَحْلَآءُ An eye that is black, [or black in the edges of the lids,] by nature, as though it had كُحْل applied to it. (Mgh.) Not in the TA. [It seems to have both of these meanings.]

كَحْلَآءُ A certain plant: see Ḳ, voce شِنْجَار: calendula arvensis: see Delile, Flor. Aeg., no. 864.

الأَكْحَلُ The median vein. See وَرِيدٌ and أَبْجَلُ and أَبْهَرُ and الصَّافِنُ.