غَلَا
Root: غلو
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 You say, غَلَا فِى الأَمْرِ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun غُلُوٌّ and غَلَانِيَةٌ; as also بِهِ; (K * and TA in art. غلى; [but belonging to the present art., as is said in the TA;]) He exceeded the proper, due, or common, limit, in the affair; was excessive, or immoderate, therein. And غَلَا فِى الدِّينِ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun غُلُوٌّ, He acted, or behaved, with forced hardness, or strictness, or rigour, in religion, so that he exceeded the proper, due, or common, limit: whence the usage of the verb in the Kur iv. 169 and v. 81: accord. to IAth, الغُلُوُّ فِى الدِّينِ is the investigating of the intrinsic states, or circumstances, of things, [in religion,] and [applying oneself to] the discovery of their causes, and of the abstrusities relating to the rites and ceremonies thereof. [See also 3.]
3 And غَلَا بِالسَّهْمِ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun غَلْوٌ and غُلُوٌّ; and بِهِ, and , Verbal.Noun غِلَآءٌ and مُغَالَاةٌ; He shot the arrow to the furthest distance that he was able to attain: or he raised his arms with the arrow, desiring [to attain with it] the furthest limit. And غَلَا السَّهْمُ The arrow rose in its course, and exceeded the [usual] limit; and in like manner, الحَجَرُ the stone.
4 And غَلَا السِّعْرُ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun غَلَآءٌ, or this is a simple subst., The price, or rate, at which a thing was to be sold, was, or became, high; or exceeded the usual limit; contr. of رَخُصَ.
5 And غَلَا بِهَا عظم [i. e. عِظَمٌ, lit. Bigness exceeded the usual limit in her;] meaning she became plump, or fat: one says, غلا بِالجَارِيَةِ عظم, and بِالغُلَامِ, [the girl, or young woman, became plump, or fat, and the boy, or young man,] in the case of their quickly attaining to young womanhood and young manhood.
6 And غَلَا is said of anything as meaning اِرْتَفَعَ [i. e. It rose in degree; as is shown by the following ex.]: Dhur-Rummeh says,
[And the love of Meiyeh ceased not to rise in degree with us, and to increase, so that we found not what more we might give to her].فَمَا زَالَ يَغْلُو حُبُّ مَيَّةَ عِنْدَنَا وَيَزْدَادُ حَتَّى لَمْ نَجِدْ مَا نَزِيدُهَا
7 See also 8.
8 And see 6.
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