اهِلٌ

, (JK, S, Msb, K,) [said by those unacquainted with the verb أَهَلَ in the first of the senses explained in this article to be] a kind of rel. n., (TA,) and ↓ مَأْهُولٌ, (JK, K,) A place peopled, or inhabited: (Msb:) or a place having people: (JK:) or the former has this signification; and the latter signifies having its people in it: (ISk, K:) or the former has this last signification: (Yoo, S:) plural of the latter مَاهِلُ, occurring in a poem of Ru-beh [apparently by poetic licence for مَاهِيلُ]. (TA.) You say قَرْيَةٌ اهِلَةٌ A peopled, or inhabited, town or village. (Msb.) And أَمْسَتْ نِيرَانُهُمْ اهِلَةٌ Their fires became in the evening attended by many people. (TA.)