الاِسْتِفْحَالُ
1.
signifies The practice of persons' giving to a man of big make, (O, K, TA,) and comely appearance, (O,) free access to their women, in order that he may beget among them the like of himself; which the unbelievers (عُلُوج, O, or أَعْلَاج, K) of Kábul do [or used to do] when seeing such a man, of the Arabs: (O, K, TA:) so Lth was told, and thus he has explained the word, after saying that he errs who says اِسْتَفْحَلْنَا
فَحْلًا لِدَوَابِّنَا [apparently meaning We sought, or demanded, a stallion for our beasts]. (O, TA.)
2.
استفحلت النَّخْلَةُ
The palm-tree became a
فُحَّال [or tree of which the spadix might be used for the purpose of fecundation]. (K. [See also the particle n., below.])