مَالٌ

Whatever one possesses: (K:) property; wealth:] according to Mohammad [the Hanafee Imám), whatever men possess, of dirhems, or deenárs, or gold, or silver, or wheat, or barley, or bread, or beasts, or garments or pieces of cloth, or weapons, or other things: (Mgh:) [property, or wealth:] or originally what one possesses of gold and silver: then applied to anything that one acquires and possesses of substantial things: and mostly applied by the Arabs to camels, because these constitute most of their wealth: (IAth, TA:) and animals. (TA.)

مَالٌ Camels or sheep or goats. (S.) The مال of the people of the desert consists of what are termed نَعَمٌ, (T, Msb,) i. e. Cattle, consisting of camels or neat or sheep or goats, or all these, or camels alone; (Msb in article نعم;) herds, or flocks, or herds and flocks.

مَالٌ A square in arithmetic: plural أَمْوَالٌ. See جَذْرٌ.

رَجُلٌ مَالٌ, for ذُومَالٍ. (L, article صيد.)