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أَغْوَلُ

Root: غول

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أَغْوَلُ [More, and most, destructive]. One says, أَيَّةُ غُولٍ أَغْوَلُ مِنَ الغَضَبِ [What destroyer is more destructive than anger?]. (S, O: immediately following the explanation of the saying, الغَضَبُ غُولُ الحِلْمِ.)
2 [Hence, perhaps,] عَيْشٌ أَغْوَلُ A soft, or plentiful and easy, life; as also .
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