شُلَّةٌ

i. q. نِيَّةٌ [apparently as meaning The thing, or place, that one proposes to himself as the object of his aim]: (S, O, K:) the place that a company of men have proposed to themselves as the object of their aim or journey: so in the M: (TA:) or the نِيَّة [in the sense thus explained in the M and TA] in journeying: (T, K:) and thus also شُلَّى, and likewise in fasting, and in warring: one says, أَيْنَ شُلَّاهُمْ [Where is the place that they propose to themselves as the object of their aim in journeying, &c.?]. (TA.)

And A remote affair (S, O, K) that one seeks; (K;) as also شَلَّةٌ. (O, K.)