Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

غَلَسٌ

Root: غلس

Full Definition

غَلَسٌ The darkness of the last part of the night, when it becomes mixed with the light of the dawn: or the beginning of the dawn, until it spreads in the tracts of the horizon: as also غَبَسٌ: both signify blackness mixed with whiteness and redness; like the dawn. بِغَلَسٍ In a period of the darkness so called. [See also غَبَشٌ.]


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