Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

مَاقَلَهُ, inf. n. مُمَاقَلَةٌ He vied with him in diving: see غَامَسَهُ.

مُقْلٌ The Theban palm; palma Thebaïca of Pococke; the cucifera of Theophrastes.

Also The خُوص, or leaves, of the tree thus called: see نظم

See also صَمْغٌ.

مَقْلَهٌ, for جُرْعَةُ مَقْلَةٍ: see 3 in art. صفن.

مُقْلَةٌ The ball, or globe, or bulb (lit. fat, شَحْمَة), of the eye, i. e., the eyeball, which comprises the white and the black. (Khalk el-Insán of Zj; and Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)