فَحِيلٌ

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One says also فَحْلٌ فَحِيلٌ, meaning A generous stallioncamel, that begets generous offspring. (S, K. *) Er-Rá'ee says,
كَانَتْ نَجَايءِبَ مُنْذِرٍ وَمُحَرِّقٍ
أُمَّاتُهُنَّ وَطَرْقُهُنَّ فَحِيلَا
[Their mothers were of the generous camels of Mundhir and Moharrik, and their compressing stallion was a generous one, a begetter of generous offspring]: (S [according to one of my copies], and TA:) [some copies of the S have نَجَايءِبُ and أُمَّاتِهِنّ; and so has the O: but] IB says that the verse is correctly related as above. (TA.)
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And كَبْشٌ فَحِيلٌ means A ram that resembles the فَحْل of camels in his excellence (K, TA) and his [comparative] greatness. (TA.)
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See also فَحْلٌ again, third sentence.

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