miylN * as used by the Arabs, [ A mile: ] The distance to which the eye reaches along land: accord. to the ancient astronomers, three thousand cubits: accord to the moderns, four thousand cubits: but the difference is merely verbal; for they agree that its extent is ninety-six thousand digits; [about 5166 English feet;] each digit being the measure of six barley-corns, each placed with its belly next to another; but the ancients say that the cubit is thirty-two digits; which makes the mile three thousand cubits. (Msb, which see for more.) See also muTolibN ― -b2- myilN i. q. mulomuwlN , [ A style ]. (K.)
The corpus record — Arabic
مَيْل
mayl
miylN * as used by the Arabs, [ A mile: ] The distance to which the eye reaches along land: accord. to the ancient astronomers, three thousand cubits: accord to the moderns, four thousand cubits: but the difference is merely verbal; for they agree that its extent is ninety-six thousand digits; [abou
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Where it lives
- The Quran 2 · 0.16/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- مَيْلِ Quran 4:129 (An-Nisa 129)
- مَيْلًا Quran 4:27 (An-Nisa 27)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.