أشهل

• اسهل — rasm

Color or defect adjective from the root ش ه ل (š-h-l).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaʃ.hal/

أَشْهَل • (ʔašhal) (feminine شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ), common plural شُهْل (šuhl))

1. (obsolete; said of eyes; also used in reference to mountains and wolves with the meaning "dust-coloured inclining to whiteness"[1]) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. glaucous[2][3] or subglaucous;[3]
   2. having "a mixture of colours" (usually blue or red with black),[1][4] variegated[5] (likely from a confusion with أَشْكَل (ʔaškal) although Abu Mansur al-Azhari considered them to be synonyms):[1][6]
      1. reddish-brown, dark-brown;[7]
      2. bluish-black, deep blue;[8]
   3. of "lighter shades of brown"[9] or amber,[3] tawny,[3] or fawn[10] (likely from a confusion with أَشْعَل (ʔašʕal)).[3]
      • c. 748 CE – 823 CE, Muslim ibn al-Walid, Diwan 45.19:

        كَسَاهَا الخَلَا الرَسْمِيُّ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ ‖ طَرَائِقَ حَتَّى سُودُ حَوْزَاتِهَا شُهْلُ

        kasāhā l-ḵalā r-rasmiyyu min kulli jānibin ‖ ṭarāʔiqa ḥattā sūdu ḥawzātihā šuhlu

        • Translation by Arthur Wormhoudt[11]

          The rain dresses the yard on every side
             Paths until the black of nature is blue

      • 988 CE, Ibn al-Nadim, Al-Fihrist :

        احد الاسباب فى ذلك ان المأمون رأى فى منامه كان رجلا ابيض اللون مشربا حمرة واسع الجبهة مقرون الحاجب اجلح الرأس اشهل العينين حسن الشمائل جالس على سريره

        • Translation by Clifford Edmund Bosworth[12]

          One of the reasons for that was that al-Ma'mun had a dream. He saw a man white in complexion but with a reddish tinge, a high forehead, close-together eyebrows, bald, with grey eyes and pleasant features, sitting on his throne.

      • 997 CE – 1062, Ibn Mutarrif al-Tarafi, The Stories of the Prophets :

        ‫ وكانت صفة أيوب صلی الله عليه وسلم أحمر أشهل ناتی الوجنتين غليظ الخلق

        • Translation by Roberto Tottoli[13]

          Job [peace be upon him] was a man of a reddish complexion, blue eyes, protuberant cheeks and bulky constitution.

      • 1025, Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine 3:

        و لهذا السبب تكون عيون الاطفال زرقاء، و شهلاء، و هذه زرقة تكون عن رطوبة بالغة

        • Translation by Christopher T. Leffler, Wasim A. Samara, Tamer H. Hadi, Ali Salman, Faraaz A. Khan[14]

          In this manner, the eyes of children are glaucous (zarqaa) and variegated (shahlaa), and this type of glaucous hue (zurqa) is due to the humour completely.

      • 1126, Cairo Geniza T-S Ar. 51.110.lines 2–5, (original in rasm):

        هذا ما استاجر عمر بن موسى الزيات وهو يومئذ رجل معتدل القامة
        اسمر اللون رقيق السمرة تعلوه حمرا واضح الجبهة صلتها ابلج ما بين الحاجبين
        ازجهما ابخض اشهل اخثم الانف غليظه موجن مستدير اللحية
        ابنة اسمعيل المعروف والدها بالكوهان اليهودية [...]

        • Translation by Geoffrey Khan[15]

          This is what ‘Umar ibn Mūsā, the dealer in oil, who on this day is a man of average stature,
          pure reddy-brown in complexion, with a smooth broad forehead, with fine eyebrows separated in the middle,
          with fleshy eye-lids, dark brown eyes, a wide, thick, nose, prominent cheekbones and a round beard, leased from Ya’’āsa (?)
          ibnat ’Isma‘īl, whose father is known as al-Kohen, the Jewess. […]

• الْأَشْهَل (al-ʔašhal)
  • أَشْهَلِيّ (ʔašhaliyy)

• اِشْهَلَّ (išhalla)
• شَهِلَ (šahila)
• شُهْلَة (šuhla)

(via feminine form شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ)):

• → Azerbaijani: şəhla
• → Chagatai: شَهلا
  • Uyghur: شەھلا (shehla)
  • Uzbek: shahlo
• → Classical Persian: شَهْلَا (šahlā)
  • Iranian Persian: شَهْلا (šahlâ)
  • Tajik: шаҳло (šahlo)
• → Kazakh: шәһла (şähla)
• → Mogholi: شهلا (šahlā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: شَهلا (şehla)
  • Turkish: şehla
• → Pashto: شهلا
• → Urdu: شَہْلا (śahlā)

أَشْهَلُ • (ʔašhalu) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of شَهِلَ (šahila)

أَشْهَلَ • (ʔašhala) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of شَهِلَ (šahila)

أَشْهَلْ • (ʔašhal) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of شَهِلَ (šahila)

أَشَهِّلُ • (ʔašahhilu) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of شَهَّلَ (šahhala)

أَشَهِّلَ • (ʔašahhila) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of شَهَّلَ (šahhala)

أَشَهِّلْ • (ʔašahhil) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of شَهَّلَ (šahhala)

أَشَهَّلُ • (ʔašahhalu) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past passive indicative of شَهَّلَ (šahhala)

أَشَهَّلَ • (ʔašahhala) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of شَهَّلَ (šahhala)

أَشَهَّلْ • (ʔašahhal) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of شَهَّلَ (šahhala)

أَشْهَلُّ • (ʔašhallu) (form IX)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of اِشْهَلَّ (išhalla)

أَشْهَلَّ • (ʔašhalla) (form IX)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of اِشْهَلَّ (išhalla)
2. first-person singular non-past active jussive of اِشْهَلَّ (išhalla)

أَشْهَلِّ • (ʔašhalli) (form IX)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of اِشْهَلَّ (išhalla)