سمل doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 4 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• سَمَلَ Form 1

  1 سَمَلَ عَيْنَهُ ذ , (S, * M, Mgh, * Msb, K,) aor. سَمُلَ , (M, Msb,) inf. n. سَمْلٌ, (S, M, Msb,) He put out, or blinded, (فَقَأَ,) his eye (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) with an iron instrument (S, Msb, TA) made hot; (S, Msb…

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• سمّل Form 2

  2 سمّل الحَوْضَ ذ : see 1. -A2- سمّل الحَوْضُ, (M, K,) inf. n. تَسْمِيلٌ, (K,) The watering-trough, or tank, yielded but little water. (Lh, M, K.) And in like manner, (K,) سمّلت الدَّلْوُ, (M, K,) inf. n. as above, (K,) …

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• سَمَلٌ

  سَمَلٌ ذ : see سَمَلَةٌ, in three places. -A2- Applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, Old, and worn out; (S, M, K;) as also and and (M, K) and and : (K:) the pl. of سَمَلٌ is أًسْمَالٌ: (A'Obeyd, TA:) and one says also…

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• سَمِلٌ

  سَمِلٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.…

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