اكل

, [verbal noun إِيكَالٌ,] said of the palm-tree, and of seed-produce, (S, K,) and of anything, (S,) It had ripe fruit; it supplied food. (S, K.)

اكلهُ الشَّىْءَ, (S, K,) verbal noun as above, (S,) He gave him to eat the thing; he fed him with the thing. (S, * K.)

See also 2, in two places.

اكل النَّارَ (assumed tropical:) He fed, or supplied, the fire with fuel. (S.)

اكل بَيْنَ النَّاسِ, (A, K,) verbal noun as above, (S, O,) (tropical:) He busied himself among the people with propagating calumnies: (S, O, TA:) or he created, or excited, disagreement, dissension, or strife, among them; or made, or did, mischief among them: (A, TA:) or he incited them, one against another. (K.)

اكَلْتُكَ فُلَانًا, (S,) or اكَلَ فُلَانٌ فُلانًا, (K, [in the CK, erroneously, فُلَانٌ فُلَانًا,]) (tropical:) I made thee, (S,) or he made such a one, (K,) to have dominion, or authority, or power, over such a one. (S, K.)