مِغْوَلٌ
Root: غول
Full Definition
مِغْوَلٌ
[primarily] An instrument with which a thing is destroyed.
2 And [hence] used as meaning A knife: and in common acceptation, a knife that is put in the midst of a whip which is as a sheath to it: a knife to which a whip is a sheath: or a slender sword, having a flat back (لَهُ قَفًا), like the knife, the sheath of which is like the whip: or an iron [weapon] that is put within a whip, which thus becomes to it a sheath: or a whip in the interior of which is a sword: said to be thus called because its owner destroys with it his enemy unexpectedly: pl. مَغَاوِلُ: and a thing like a مِشْمَل [or short and slender sword over which a man covers himself with his garment], except that it is more slender, and longer: and a long نَصْل [or blade], of little breadth, thick in the مَتْن [which generally means the part in the middle of which is the ridge, but may here mean the back]: or a short sword which a man wears inwrapped beneath his clothes: or a slender sword, having a flat back (لَهُ قَفًا): or a slender iron [weapon], having a sharp edge and a flat back (وَقَفًا), which the assassin binds upon his waist in order that he may therewith destroy men.
3 [Hence,] فَرَسٌ ذَاتُ مِغْوَلٍ
2 And [hence] used as meaning A knife: and in common acceptation, a knife that is put in the midst of a whip which is as a sheath to it: a knife to which a whip is a sheath: or a slender sword, having a flat back (لَهُ قَفًا), like the knife, the sheath of which is like the whip: or an iron [weapon] that is put within a whip, which thus becomes to it a sheath: or a whip in the interior of which is a sword: said to be thus called because its owner destroys with it his enemy unexpectedly: pl. مَغَاوِلُ: and a thing like a مِشْمَل [or short and slender sword over which a man covers himself with his garment], except that it is more slender, and longer: and a long نَصْل [or blade], of little breadth, thick in the مَتْن [which generally means the part in the middle of which is the ridge, but may here mean the back]: or a short sword which a man wears inwrapped beneath his clothes: or a slender sword, having a flat back (لَهُ قَفًا): or a slender iron [weapon], having a sharp edge and a flat back (وَقَفًا), which the assassin binds upon his waist in order that he may therewith destroy men.
3 [Hence,] فَرَسٌ ذَاتُ مِغْوَلٍ
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