ارمل
1.
It (a place) became sandy; had
رَمْل
in it or upon it. (Msb.)
2.
[And He clave to the sand.]
3.
And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) He became poor: (Mgh:) or (assumed tropical:) his provisions, or travelling-provisions, became difficult to obtain, and he became poor: (Msb:) or his travelling-provisions went: (Mgh:) and أَرْمَلُوا (tropical:) their provisions, or travel-ling-provisions, became exhausted, or consumed: (A 'Obeyd, T, S, M, K, TA:) from الرَّمْلُ; (Mgh, TA;) as though [he or] they clave to the sand; (TA;) like أَدْقَعَ, (Mgh,) or أَدْقَعُوا, (TA,) from الدَّقْعَاءُ: (Mgh, TA:) or from رَمَلٌ meaning “ little rain: ” or from أَرْمَلَ الحَصِيرَ and رَمَلَهُ meaning “ he made the weaving of the mat thin: ” (Har p. 55:) and ارملوا زَادَهُمْ (tropical:) They exhausted, or consumed, their provisions, or travelling-provisions. (K, * TA. [In the TT, as from the M, اتخذوه is erroneously put for أَنْفَدُوهُ, the explanation in the TA.])
4.
And [hence,] ارملت, (Yz, T, S, Msb,) or, according to Sh, ارملت مِنْ
زَوْجِهَا, or من زوجها
رَمِلَتٌ; (T, according to different copies;) and
رَمَّلَتْ [alone], (K, TA, [said in the latter to be on the authority of Sh, and therefore it may perhaps be taken from a copy of the T,]) verbal noun تَرْمِيلٌ; (TA;) (tropical:) She (a woman) became such as is termed
أَرْمَلَةٌ, (T, Msb, K, TA,) i. e. without a husband; (T, Msb;) because of her being in need of one to expend upon her; [for] Az says that she is not thus called unless she be also poor: (Msb:) or [she became a widow;] she lost her husband by his death. (S.)
5.
And ارمل said of an arrow, It became defiled, or smeared, with blood, (Ibn- 'Abbád, K, TA,) and had the mark thereof remaining upon it; (Ibn-'Abbád, TA;) and so
ارتمل. (TA. [See also 2 and 5.])
6.
Said of a poet, it is from الرَّمَلُ, like أَرْجَزَ from الرَّجَزُ; (TA;) i. e. He versified, or composed verses, in the metre termed
الرَّمَلُ. (Ibn-Buzurj, L in article قصد.)
7.
As a transitive v.: see 1, in five places.
8.
Also He lengthened, or made long, a rope, or cord: (K:) and in like manner, he lengthened, and widened; or made long, and wide; a shackle, or shackles: you say, ارمل لَهُ فِى قَيْدِهِ
He lengthened, and widened, or made long, and made wide, for him his shackle, or shackles. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)