ثعل doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 5 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• ثَعِلَ Form 1

  1 ثَعِلَ ثعل , aor. ثَعَلَ , inf. n. ثَعَلٌ, His teeth were irregular in their places of growth, and overlying one another: (Msb:) [or he had a tooth, or teeth, in excess, or exceeding the usual number, and growing behin…

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• ثَعْلٌ

  ثَعْلٌ ثعل : see ثُعْلٌ.…

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• ثُعْلٌ

  ثُعْلٌ ثعل (K, and Ham p. 647) and and , (K,) the last from Ibn-'Abbád, (TA,) A tooth in excess, or exceeding the usual number, (K, and Ham ubi suprà,) behind the other teeth: (K:) or the entering of a tooth beneath anot…

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• ثَعَلٌ

  ثَعَلٌ ثعل : see ثُعْلٌ, in three places.…

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• ثُعَلٌ

  ثُعَلٌ ثعل : see ثُعَالَةُ. -b2- One says in reviling a man, هٰذِا الثُّعَلُ وَالكُعَلُ, meaning This ignoble fellow, that is naught. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)…

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