This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
آكِلٌ آكل Eating; or an eater; as also ↓ أَكِيلٌ : pl. أَكَلَةٌ. (S, K.) You say, هُمْ أَكَلَةُ رَأْسٍ [lit. They are eaters of a head]; meaning (assumed tropical:) they are few; one head satisfying their stomachs. (S.) ― -b2- آكِلَةٌ (tropical:) Pasturing beasts. (K, TA.) ― -b3- آكِلَةُ اللَّحْمِ (assumed tropical:) The knife; (K, TA;) because it cuts the flesh: (TA:) and the pointed staff or stick; (K, TA;) as being likened thereto: (TA:) and fire: (K:) and whips; (Sh, K;) because they burn the skin. (TA.) ― -b4- الآكِلُ, [in the CK, erroneously, الاَكِلُ,] (tropical:) The king. (K, TA.) [Opposed to المَأْكُولُ, q. v.] ― -b5- آكِلُ الرِّبَا (tropical:) [The receiver of usury]: occurring in a trad., in which it is said, لُعِنَ آكِلُ ↓ الرِّبَا وَ مُؤْكِلُهُ (tropical:) [The receiver of usury is cursed, and the giver thereof]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
