Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry محل
4 أَمْحَلَتِ النُّجُومُ The stars set aurorally and brought no rain. (S, K * in art. خوى.) 5 تَمَحَّلْتُ مَالًا بِغَيْرِ ثَمَنٍ I laboured to acquire property without price: (Msb:) or, accord. to Az, تَمَحَّلَ مَالًا means he laboured, and exercised art or management, in seeking [to acquire] property. (TA.) See also تَعَلَّثَ.
مَحْلٌ Drought, or suspension of rain, (S, K, Msb in art. جدب,) and dryness of the earth (S, Msb ubi suprà) depriving it of herbage; (S, TA;) and i. q. جَدْبٌ. (K.) مَحَالَةٌ : see art. حول; and see also فَوْهَآءُ voce
أَفْوَهُ, and فَوْقَآءُ voce أَفْوَقُ, and قَبٌّ.
لَبَنٌ مُمَحَّلٌ Sour milk upon which much fresh is milked: see قَارِصٌ.
مُتَمَاحِلٌ : see رَدَاحٌ.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
