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اغتالهُ

Root: غول

Form: 8

Full Definition

اغتالهُVIII : see 1, first sentence, in two places.
2 Also He slew him covertly or on an occasion of inadvertence; syn. قَتَلَهُ .
3 See also 1, latter half.
4 لَا يَغْتَالُهُ الشَّبَعُ, said of a hawk, &c., signifies Satiety will not deprive him of his strength, and his vehemence of flight: meaning that he will not become satiated: [it is said that] it occurs in a verse of Zuheyr, [but I do not find it in his Deewán,] describing a hawk.
5 هٰذِهِ أَرْضٌ تَغْتَالُ المَشْىَ means This is a land that renders unapparent in it the footing, or marching, [of travellers,] by reason of its far extent and its width: an ex. of the verb [in this sense] occurs in a verse of El-'Ajjáj cited voce نِيَاطٌ, in art. نوط.

def.2 [And Freytag adds, in art. غيل, the two following significations: the former, or both, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees: He overtook him in running:

def.3 and He filled it so that the space became too contracted to take, or hold.]
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