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غُمْلُولٌ ذ A valley containing trees, (S, O, K,) or containing numerous trees, (TA,) and plants, or herbage, (S, O,) tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense: (S:) or such as is long, of little width, and tangled or luxuriant or abundant and dense [in its trees]: (K:) 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: (TA:) and [its pl.] غَمَالِيلُ is said to signify low, or depressed, tracts of land, covered with herbage. (O.) ― -b2- And (in like manner, S, O) Anything that is collected together, (S, O, K,) obscure, and accumulated, one part upon another, (K,) of trees, or of clouds, or of darkness, (S, O, K,) or a رَاوِيَة, or زَاوِيَة, (the former in the CK, and the latter in other copies of the K and in the TA,) [or] so that a رَاوِيَة, or زَاوِيَة, (the former in my copies of the S, and the latter in the O,) is thus called: (S, O:) [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. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, (O, K,) as is said by AHn on the authority of some other or others, (O,) 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; (O;) eaten (O, K) by men, (O,) cooked. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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