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غُولٌ ذ A kind of [goblin,] demon, devil, or jinnee, which, the Arabs assert, appears to men in the desert, assuming various forms, causing them to wander from the way, and destroying them; (JM, and TA * on the authority of IAth;) but this the Prophet denied, saying, لَا غُولَ; by which, however, accord. to some, he did not mean to deny the existence of the غول, but only the assertion of the Arabs respecting its assuming various forms and its being able to cause any one to go astray: (IAth, JM, * TA:) i. q. سِعْلَاةٌ [q. v.]: or a sort of سِعْلَاة: (S, O, Msb:) or a male jinnee; the female being called سِعْلَاة: (Abu-l-Wefee ElAarábee, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَغْوَالٌ and [of mult.] غِيلَانٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and غِوَلَةٌ: (O, TA:) and it signifies also an enchantress of the jinn: (K:) and a demon, or devil, that eats men: (En-Nadr, O, K:) or any jinnee, or devil, or animal of prey, that destroys a man: (TA:) or a certain beast, (K, TA,) terrible [in appearance], having tusks, or fangs, (TA,) seen by the Arabs, and known by them; and killed by Taäbbata Sharrà: (K, TA:) and such as varies in form or appearance, of the enchanters and of the jinn; (K, TA;) on his doing which, as is said in a trad., one should hastily utter the call to prayer, to prevent his mischief by the mention of God: (TA:) or anything by reason of which the intellect departs; as also ↓ غَوْلٌ : (K:) and anything that takes a man unexpectedly and destroys him: (S, O, Msb:) [whence] one says, الغَضَبُ غُولُ الحِلْمِ Anger [is that which] destroys, and does away with, forbearance, or clemency. (S, O.) ― -b2- Also Destruction: [or a cause thereof:] and death; or the decree of death. (K.) See 1, second sentence. ― -b3- And A calamity, or misfortune; (K, TA;) as also ↓ غَائِلَةٌ ; (TA;) of which latter the pl. in this sense is غَوَائِلُ; (K, * TA;) thus mentioned by Ks. (Msb.) ― -b4- And A serpent: pl. أَغْوَالٌ: (K:) accord. to Az, the Arabs call serpents أَغْوَال; and thus this word is said to mean in the verse of Imra-el-Keys, “ لِيَقْتُلَنِى وَالمَشْرَفِىُّ مُضَاجِعِى
وَمَسْنُونَةٌ زُرْقٌ كَأَنْيَابِ أَغْوَالِ
” [To slay me, while the Meshrefee sword was my bedfellow, and so were sharpened, polished arrowheads, like the fangs of serpents]: (O, TA: *) but AHát says that this is meant as an exaggeration: (TA:) and it is said that the poet here means devils. (O, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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