إِبَّوْلٌ
, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) like عِجَّوْلٌ, (S, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, عَجُول,]) A separate, or distinct, portion of a number of birds, and of horses, and of camels, (M, K,) and of such following one another; (K;) as also
إِبِيلٌ and
إِبَّالَةٌ, (M, K,) and
إِبَالَةٌ, and
إِيْبَالٌ: (K:) or it signifies a bird separating itself from the row of other birds; (T, TA;) according to IAar. (TA.) It is said to be the singular of
أَبَابِيلٌ: (T, S, M, and Jel in cv. 3:) Ks says, I used to hear the grammarians say that this latter has for its singular إِبَّوْلٌ, like عِجَّوْلٌ, of which the plural is عَجَاجِيلٌ: (Msb:) or its singular is
إِبَيلٌ; (S, Msb;) but he who says this adds, I have not found the Arabs to know a singular to it: (S:) or each of these is its singular; (M, Jel;) and so is
إِبَّالٌ: (Jel:) or its singular is
إِبَّالَةٌ, (Bd in cv. 3, and Msb,) originally signifying “a great bundle:” (Bd:) it is said that this seems to be its singular; and so
أَبَّالَةٌ: or the singular may be
إِيبَالَةٌ, like as دِينَارٌ is sing of دَنَانِيرٌ: (T:) or it has no singular, (T, S, M, Bd, Msb, K,) according to Fr (T, Msb) and Akh (S) and AO, (T, M,) like شَمَاطِيطُ (Fr, T, Bd) and عَبَادِيدٌ. (AO, M, Bd.) أَبَابِيلٌ signifies, according to some, A company in a state of dispersion: (M:) or dispersed companies, one following another: (Msb:) or distinct, or separate, companies, (Akh, S, Msb, K,) like leaning camels: (Msb:) or companies in a state of dispersion. (AO, Msb.) One says, جَاءَتْ إِبِلُكَ
أَبَابِيلَ
Thy camels came in distinct, or separate, companies. (Akh, S.) And طَيْرٌ أَبَابِيلُ [in the Qur'an, 105:3 means Birds in distinct, or separate, flocks or bevies]: (Akh, S:) [or] birds in companies from this and that quarter: or following one another, flock after flock: (Zj, T:) or (assumed tropical:) birds in companies; (Bd, Jel;) likened to great bundles, in respect of their compactness. (Bd.) [Respecting these birds, Fei, in the Msb, quotes many fanciful descriptions, which I omit, as absurd.]