رِيءْبَالٌ

, a quadriliteral word [as to its root], (M, K,) of the measure فِعْلَالٌ, as is shown by their saying تَرَأْبَلُوا; (M;) and also without ء, (M, K,) sometimes, (K,) the ء being suppressed, and ى substituted for it; (M;) The lion: (S in article ربل, and M and K:) and the wolf: (M, K:) or a malignant, guileful, or crafty, wolf: and according to Skr, a fleshy and young beast of prey: (TA:) and applied as an epithet to a thief, because of his boldness: (M:) and also, (K,) as some say, (M,) one who is the only offspring of his mother: (M, K:) plural رَابِيلُ (S in article ربل, and K) and رَابِلُ, (K,) [the latter, probably, contracted by poetic license,] and رَابِلَةٌ (TA.) [See also رِيْبَالٌ, in article ربل.]