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غَوْلٌ ذ Far extent of a desert, or waterless desert; (S, O, TA;) because it destroys him who passes along in it: (S, TA:) 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. (TA.) One says, مَا أَبْعَدَ غَوْلَ هٰذِهِ الأَرْضِ How far is the extent of this land! and إِِنَّهَا لَبَعِيدَةُ الغَوْلِ [Verily it is far in extent]. (ISh, TA.) And أَرْضٌ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ A land far extending, though in the view of the eye of little extent: (IKh, TA:) 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. (TA.) ― -b2- اِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ غَوْلٍ A tall woman. (TA.) See 1, last sentence but two. [And see also غَيِّلَةٌ, voce غَيِّلٌ, in art. غيل.] ― -b3- [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.] -A2- 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: (S, O, TA:) or it [there] means [simply] headache: or intoxication: (K, TA:) thus some expl. it as used in that instance: (TA:) or, as expl. by AO, it there means privation of the intellectual faculties. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- See also غُولٌ, latter half. ― -b3- Also Distress, trouble, or molestation: (K, TA:) thus expl. by some as used in the Kur ubi suprà. (TA.) ― -b4- And Unfaithfulness; or unfaithful acting. (TA.) ― -b5- ↓ أَتَى غَوْلًا غَائِلَةً means He did a cunning, bad, action. (K.) -A3- Also Much earth. (S, O, K.) Hence the phrase غَوْلًا مِنَ الرَّمْلِ, [app. meaning A large quantity of sand,] in a verse of Lebeed. (S, O.) ― -b2- And A collection of [the trees called] طَلْح, (K, TA,) with which nothing participates. (TA.) ― -b3- And A low, or depressed, part of the earth, or of land. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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