أَبِيلٌ
1.
(assumed tropical:) A Christian monk; (S M, Msb, K;) so called because of his abstaining (لِتَأَبُلِهِ) from women: (TA:) or the chief monk: (T:) or a derotee: (TA:) or an old man, or elder: (M:) or the chief, or head-man, of the Christians: (M, K:) or the man who calls them to prayer by means of the
نَاقُوس; (A Heyth, M, * K;) the beater of the
ناقوس: (IDrd:) as also
أَيْبَلِىٌّ, (M and K, but according to the M as meaning “ a monk, ”) which is either a foreign word, or changed by the relative ى, or of the same class as إِنْقَحْلٌ [in which the first letter as well as th second is augmentative], for Sb says that there is not in the language an instance of the measure فَيْعَلٌ; (M;) and
أَيْبُلِىٌّ, and هَيْبَلِىٌّ, and
أَبُلِىٌّ and
أَيْبَلٌ, (K,) which last is disallowed by Sb for the reason stated above; (TA;) and
أَيْبُلٌ like أَيْنُقٌ; and
أَيْبِلِىٌّ; (K;) the last with fet-h to the hemzeh, and kesr to the ب, and with the [first] ى quiescent; or أَيْبَلِىٌّ [apparently a mistranscription for أَيْبِلِىٌّ] is used by poetic licence for
أَبِيلِىٌّ, like أَيْنُقٌ for أَنْوُقٌ: (TA:) plural ابَالٌ (M, K) and أُبْلٌ, or أُبُلٌ, [according to different copies of the K,] with damm [which indicates that the former is meant, though it is irregular]. (K.) By أَبِيلٌ الأَبِيلِينَ is meant 'Eesà [or Jesus], (S, K,) the Messiah. (S.)
2.
In the Syriac language it signifies Mourning, or sorrowing. (K.)
4.
See also إِبَالَةٌ.