غُمْلُولٌ
Root: غمل
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غُمْلُولٌ
A valley containing trees, or containing numerous trees, and plants, or herbage, tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense: or such as is long, of little width, and tangled or luxuriant or abundant and dense [in its trees]: or a narrow valley having much of such produce: or a deeplydepressed tract of land: or, accord. to ISh, a tract having the form of a [road such as is termed] سِكَّة, in the ground, narrow, and having two [lateral] acclivities, each acclivity two cubits in height, extending to the measure of a bow-shot, producing an abundance [of trees or herbage], and narrower than what is termed a
مَلِيع: and [its pl.] غَمَالِيلُ is said to signify low, or depressed, tracts of land, covered with herbage.
2 And Anything that is collected together, obscure, and accumulated, one part upon another, of trees, or of clouds, or of darkness, or a رَاوِيَة, or زَاوِيَة, [or] so that a رَاوِيَة, or زَاوِيَة, is thus called: [but I think that these two words راوية and زاوية are both mistranscriptions for رَابِيَة, which is mentioned in the K as one of the meaning of غُمْلُولٌ; i. e. a hill:] pl. غَمَالِيلُ.
3 Also, as is said by AHn on the authority of some other or others, A certain herb, or leguminous plant, (بَقْلَةٌ, O, K,) likewise called قُنَّابِرَى, [thus accord. to the O in art. قنبر, and there said in the TA to be correctly with teshdeed to the ن and with kesr to the ب, but in the present art. written in the O قُنَّابَرَى,] in Pers. بَرْغَسْت; a herb of the desert (بَقْلَةٌ دَشْتِيَّةٌ), which come forth early in the [season called] رَبِيع; eaten by men, cooked.
2 And Anything that is collected together, obscure, and accumulated, one part upon another, of trees, or of clouds, or of darkness, or a رَاوِيَة, or زَاوِيَة, [or] so that a رَاوِيَة, or زَاوِيَة, is thus called: [but I think that these two words راوية and زاوية are both mistranscriptions for رَابِيَة, which is mentioned in the K as one of the meaning of غُمْلُولٌ; i. e. a hill:] pl. غَمَالِيلُ.
3 Also, as is said by AHn on the authority of some other or others, A certain herb, or leguminous plant, (بَقْلَةٌ, O, K,) likewise called قُنَّابِرَى, [thus accord. to the O in art. قنبر, and there said in the TA to be correctly with teshdeed to the ن and with kesr to the ب, but in the present art. written in the O قُنَّابَرَى,] in Pers. بَرْغَسْت; a herb of the desert (بَقْلَةٌ دَشْتِيَّةٌ), which come forth early in the [season called] رَبِيع; eaten by men, cooked.
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