رَمَلٌ

Weak rain: (IAar, T:) or little rain: (Har p. 55:) or a small quantity of rain: (ElUmawee, T, S, M, K:) one says, أَصَابَهُمْ رَمَلٌ مِنْ مَطَرٍ A small quantity of rain fell upon them: (El-Umawee, T, M:) but Sh says, “ I have not heard رَمَلٌ in this sense except on the authority of El-Umawee: ” (TA:) the plural is أَرْمَالٌ. (T, S, M.)

[Hence, perhaps,] أَرْمَالٌ مِنْ إِبِلٍ A number of camels in a state of dispersion. (TA.)

Also, the singular, [as a coll. gen. n.,] Lines, or streaks, upon the legs of the wild cow, (S, M, K,) upon her fore legs and kind legs, (M,) differing from the rest of her colour: (S, M, K:) n. un. ↓ رَمَلَةٌ. (TA. [See also رُمْلَةٌ.])

And A redundance, or an excess, (زِيَادَةٌ,) in a thing. (K.)

-A2- الرَّمَلُ is also the name of A certain kind of metre of verse; (T, S, M, K;) [the eighth kind;] the measure of which is [originally] composed of فَاعِلَاتُنْ (T, TA) six times; (TA;) so called from الرَّمَلُ signifying “ a certain kind of walk or pace, ” verbal noun of رَمَلَ [q. v.]: (M, K: *) and Kh says that it is also applied to any meagre verse or poetry, incongruous in structure; such being so named by the Arabs without their defining anything respecting it; as, for instance, the saying [of 'Abeed Ibn-El-Abras (TA in arts. ذنب and قطب)],

فَالقُطَبِيَّاتُ فَالذَّنُوبُ

أَقْفَرَ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ مَلْحوبُ

[Melhoob (the name of a place, K in article لحب) has become destitute of its inhabitants, and El- Kutabeeyát, (by which is meant a certain water, called القُطَبِيَّةُ, with its environs, K* and TA in article قطب,) and Edh-Dhanoob (the name of a place, TA in article ذنب)]: he says also that, generally, the مَجْزُوْء [i. e. what is curtailed of two of the original feet, or what consists of two feet only,] is thus called by them: according to IJ, it is applied by them to verse, or poetry, that is incongruous, unsound, or faulty, in structure, and such as falls short of the original [standard so as not to answer completely to any regular kind or species]: (M, TA:) thus it signifies as first explained above, and also any verse, or poetry, that is not such as is termed قَصِيد [as meaning that of which the hemistichs are complete] nor such as is termed رَجَز [which some hold to be not verse, or poetry, but a kind of rhyming prose]. (IJ, M, K. *) [See also زَمَلٌ.]