اكتحل

• IPA^(key): /ik.ta.ħa.la/

اِكْتَحَلَ • (iktaḥala) VIII (non-past يَكْتَحِلُ (yaktaḥilu), verbal noun اِكْتِحَال (iktiḥāl))

1. to color the edges of the eyelids with kohl (stibnite)
   • a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات ‎, Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 416:

     شِفْنِين طَائِرٌ مَعْرُوفٌ قَالَ ٱلْجَاحِظُ مِنْ عَجَائِبِهِ إِنَّهُ لَيُزَاوِجُ إِلَّا أُنْثَاهُ فَإِنْ هَلَكَتْ أُنْثَاهُ لَا يُزَاوِجُ أَبَدًا وَكَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْأُنْثَى إِنْ هَلَكَ ذَكَرُهَا. شَحْمُهُ يُدَافُ بِٱلسِّيرَجِ وَيُقَطَّرُ فِي ٱلْأُذُنِ يُزِيلُ طَرَشَهَا وَكَذَٰلِكَ يُزِيلُ ٱلرَّمَدَ وَجِرَاحَاتِ ٱلْعَيْنِ وَٱلْعَشَى ٱكْتِحَالًا. ذَرْقَهُ يُسْحَقُ وَيُدَافُ بِدَهْنِ ٱلْوَرْدِ وَتَحْتَمِلُهُ ٱلْمَرْأَةُ بِصُوفَةٍ يَنْفَعُ أَوْجَاءَ ٱلرَّحِمِ.

     šifnīn ṭāʔirun maʕrūfun qāla l-jāḥiẓu min ʕajāʔibihi ʔinnahu layuzāwiju ʔillā ʔunṯāhu faʔin halakat ʔunṯāhu lā yuzāwiju ʔabadan wakaḏālika l-ʔunṯā ʔin halaka ḏakaruhā. šaḥmuhu yudāfu bi-s-sīraji wayuqaṭṭaru fī l-ʔuḏuni yuzīlu ṭarašahā wakaḏālika yuzīlu r-ramada wajirāḥāti l-ʕayni wal-ʕašā ktiḥālan. ḏarqahu yusḥaqu wayudāfu bidahni l-wardi wataḥtamiluhu l-marʔatu biṣūfatin yanfaʕu ʔawjāʔa r-raḥimi.

     The laughing dove is a well-known bird about which al-Jāḥiẓ said of its peculiarities that it never takes a fere except its female and when its female perishes it will never form a bond and likewise the female when its male dies. Its fat is mingled with sesame-oil and dribbled into the ear where it does away with its deafness and in the same fashion when kohled it staves off the sores and the wounds of the eye and nightblindness. One crushes its droppings and mixes them with rose oil and a woman wears it with a wool rag as it helps against woes of the womb.