أَرْجَلُ

1.
A man large in the رِجْل [i. e. leg, or foot]: (S, K:) like أَرْكَبُ “ large in the knee, ” and أَرْأَسُ “ large in the head. ” (TA.)
2.
And A horse, (S,) or beast, (دَابَّة, K,) having a whiteness in one of his رِجْلَانِ [i. e. hind legs or feet], (S, K,) without a whiteness in any other particle (TA.) This is disliked, unless there be in him some other [similar] وَضَح. (S. [See also 2 in article خدم.]) The feminine is رَجْلَاءُ, (S, K,) which is applied in like manner to a sheep or goat: (S:) or to a ewe as meaning whose رِجْلَانِ [or hind legs] are white to the flanks, (M, TA,) or with the flanks, (T, TA,) the rest of her being black. (TA.)
3.
حَرَّةٌ رَجْلَاءُ: see رَجْلَى.
4.
هُوَ أَرْجَلُ الرَّجُلَيْنِ means [He is the more manly, or manful, of the two men; or] he has رُجْلِيَّة that is not in the other [of the two men]: (T, TA:) or he is the stronger of the two men. (K.) ISd thinks ارجل in this case to be like أَحْنَكُ, as having no verb. (TA.)

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