غَوْلٌ
Root: غول
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غَوْلٌ
Far extent of a desert, or waterless desert; because it destroys him who passes along in it: or of a land; because it casts away the travellers, or wayfarers, causes them to fall, or drop down, and removes them far away: and accord. to Lh, it is said of a land when one journeys in it without stopping. One says, مَا أَبْعَدَ غَوْلَ هٰذِهِ الأَرْضِ
How far is the extent of this land! and إِنَّهَا لَبَعِيدَةُ الغَوْلِ [Verily it is far in extent]. And أَرْضٌ ذَاتُ
غَوْلٍ
A land far extending, though in the view of the eye of little extent: and غَيِّلٌ applied to land is said to have the same meaning. (TA in art. غيل.) And أَغْوَالُ الأَرْضِ [in which اغوال is app. pl. of غَوْلٌ] signifies The extremities of the land.
2 اِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ A tall woman. See 1, last sentence but two. [And see also غَيِّلَةٌ, voce غَيِّلٌ, in art. غيل.]
3 [ناقة غول النجآء is a phrase mentioned without any indication of the meaning in the TA: perhaps نَاقَةُ غَوْلِ النَّجَآءِ, and signifying A she-camel of an exceeding degree of swiftness.]
def.2 In the saying in the Kur [xxxvii. 46], لَا فِيهَا غَوْلٌ, [referring to the wine of Paradise,] it means The evil result of headache; because it is said in another place, [lvi. 19,] لَا يُصَدَّعُونَ عَنْهَا: or it [there] means [simply] headache: or intoxication: thus some expl. it as used in that instance: or, as expl. by AO, it there means privation of the intellectual faculties.
2 See also غُولٌ, latter half.
3 Also Distress, trouble, or molestation: thus expl. by some as used in the Kur ubi suprà.
4 And Unfaithfulness; or unfaithful acting.
5 أَتَى غَوْلًا means He did a cunning, bad, action.
def.3 Also Much earth. Hence the phrase غَوْلًا مِنَ الرَّمْلِ, [app. meaning A large quantity of sand,] in a verse of Lebeed.
2 And A collection of [the trees called] طَلْح, with which nothing participates.
3 And A low, or depressed, part of the earth, or of land.
2 اِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ A tall woman. See 1, last sentence but two. [And see also غَيِّلَةٌ, voce غَيِّلٌ, in art. غيل.]
3 [ناقة غول النجآء is a phrase mentioned without any indication of the meaning in the TA: perhaps نَاقَةُ غَوْلِ النَّجَآءِ, and signifying A she-camel of an exceeding degree of swiftness.]
def.2 In the saying in the Kur [xxxvii. 46], لَا فِيهَا غَوْلٌ, [referring to the wine of Paradise,] it means The evil result of headache; because it is said in another place, [lvi. 19,] لَا يُصَدَّعُونَ عَنْهَا: or it [there] means [simply] headache: or intoxication: thus some expl. it as used in that instance: or, as expl. by AO, it there means privation of the intellectual faculties.
2 See also غُولٌ, latter half.
3 Also Distress, trouble, or molestation: thus expl. by some as used in the Kur ubi suprà.
4 And Unfaithfulness; or unfaithful acting.
5 أَتَى غَوْلًا means He did a cunning, bad, action.
def.3 Also Much earth. Hence the phrase غَوْلًا مِنَ الرَّمْلِ, [app. meaning A large quantity of sand,] in a verse of Lebeed.
2 And A collection of [the trees called] طَلْح, with which nothing participates.
3 And A low, or depressed, part of the earth, or of land.
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