سبيل sabīl
A سبيل sabīl, s.f. Way, road, path; course, manner of proceeding; manner, mode; means of access, means, instrument; water or sherbet given to thirsty travellers during the festival of the Moharram; water or other drink given as a pious duty; a shed, &c. in which water is kept for thirsty travellers:—sabīluʼl-lah, The way, or cause, of God or of religion, the means of advancement in God's favour;—sabīl pilānā, v.t. To give (one) water or sherbet, &c. to drink as a pious duty, to give water, &c. to drink gratis:—sabīl rakhnā, sabīl lagānā, To keep a shed for the supplying thirty travellers, &c. with water during the month of Moharram; to give water gratis to travellers, &c. (=sabīl pilānā):—sabīl karnā, v.t. To prepare, arrange; to get together; to obtain money by begging or borrowing:—ba-sabīl (-ě, or -ke), adv. By way (of), by means (of), by, through the medium (of):—fī sabīl-allāh, adv. In the path of God, for the sake of God, for religious or sacred uses, as a religious or pious duty.
سبل subul
A سبل subul, s.f. pl. (of sabīl), Ways, means; modes of life, manners, institutions.
سبل sabal
A سبل sabal, s.m. Falling rain (before it reaches the ground);—an ear of corn;—a disease in the eye resembling a film with red veins, a cataract; blood-shot eye; blear-eye.
