Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تَغَاْلَوَ

Root: غلو

Form: 6

Full Definition

تَغَاْلَوَVI see 1, second sentence.
2 تغالوا فِى الصَّدَاقِ They were excessive, or exorbitant, one towards another, in respect of the dowry, or the gift to, or for, a bride; contr. of تَسَاهَلُوا and تَيَاسَرُوا. (TA in art. يسر. [See also 3, last sentence but one.])
3 تغالى said of a plant, or herbage, It grew high; it became tall. And, said of the same, It became tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, and large; as also غَلَا , and , and ; or this last is said of a grape-vine, signifying its leaves became tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, and its branches, or its shoots upon which were the bunches of grapes, or the buds of its leaves and berries, (نَوَامِيهِ,) became abundant, and it became tall.
4 Also, said of the flesh of a beast, It rose, or went away, (اِرْتَفَعَ,) and became upon the heads of the bones: and it fell away on the occasion of preparing for racing, or the like, by scanty feeding &c.: or, said of the flesh of a she-camel, it went away; syn. ذَهَبَ; or اِرْتَفَعَ and ذَهَبَ.


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