أَسْبَلَتِ الطَّرِيقُ

The road had many passengers following, or succeeding, one another, or going repeatedly to and fro, upon it. (M, K.)

اسبل إِزَارَهُ, (S, M, K,) verbal noun إِسْبَالٌ, (TA,) He let loose, let down, or lowered, his waist-wrapper; (S, M, K;) and so السِّتْرَ the veil, or curtain, (Msb,) or he let down, let fall, or made to hang down, the veil, or curtain: (Mgh:) the former act is forbidden in a tradition (TA.) And اسبلت ذَيْلَهَا [She made her skirt to hang down; or to hang down low, so that she dragged it on the ground]; said of a woman. (M.) And اسبل ثَوْبَهُ He dragged his garment [on the ground]; (O;) and سبّلهُ signifies the same, (O, TA,) verbal noun تَسْبِيلٌ. (TA.) And اسبل ذَنَبَهُ He made his tail to hang down; he hung down his tail; said of a horse. (M.)

[Hence,] اسبل المَاءَ (assumed tropical:) He (a man) poured forth the water. (Msb.) And اسبل دَمْعَهُ (M, K, TA) (tropical:) He shed, or let fall, his tears. (K, TA.)

The verb is also similarly used intransitively. (TA.) You say, of a part of the beard, اسبل عَلَى الصَّدْرِ [It fell, or hung down, upon the breast]. (Az, O, TA.)

And اسبل المَطَرُ (tropical:) The rain let fall a shower, and became dense; as though it let down a curtain: (A, TA: [but according to this explanation, the verb is apparently transitive; and the phrase, elliptical:]) or the rain fell continuously, or in consecutive showers, and in large drops: and in like manner, الدَّمْعُ the tears. (S, K,)

And اسبلت السَّمَاءُ (AZ, S, M, K) (assumed tropical:) The sky let fall its rain issuing from the clouds and not as yet having reached the earth: (AZ, S, TA:) or [simply] the sky rained. (K.) And اسبلت أَرْوَاقُ العَيْنِ (tropical:) The sides of the eye shed tears. (O, K, * TA, all in article روق.)

And اسبل عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) He poured forth his speech against him abundantly, [or in torrents,] (A, K, * TA,) like as rain pours. (A. TA.)

اسبل الزَّرْعُ The seed-produce put forth its سُنْبُل [or ears]; (S;) and so سَنْبَلَ; (S, Mgh, Msb;) or put forth its سَبَل, (Msb in explanation of the former,) which is synonym with سُنْبُل, (S, M, Msb, K,) or its سَبُولَة: (K in explanation of the former:) [Mtr says,] تَسَنْبَلَ I have not found. (Mgh.)