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غُلٌّ ذ A ring, or collar, of iron, which is put upon the neck: (Msb:) a shackle for the neck or for the hand: [i. e. a ring, or collar, for the neck, or a pinion or manacle for the hand:] (MA:) or a [shackle of the kind called] جَامِعَة, (TA, and so in the S and K in art. جمع,) of iron, (TA,) collecting together the two hands to the neck: (S in art. جمع; and Jel * in xxxvi. 7:) [sometimes, a shackle for the neck and hands, consisting of two rings, one for the neck and the other for the hands, connected by a bar of iron: (see زَمَّارَةٌ:)] and a shackle with which the Arabs used to confine a captive when they took him, made of thongs, upon which was hair, so that sometimes, when it dried, it became infested with lice upon his neck: (TA:) the pl. is أَغْلَالٌ: (S, O, Msb, K:) which repeatedly occurs in the Kur-án and the Sunneh as meaning (assumed tropical:) difficult tasks and fatiguing works [as being likened to shackles upon the necks]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence] the Arabs apply it metonymically to denote (tropical:) A wife. (TA.) And غُلٌّ قَمِلٌ [lit. A lousy shackle for the neck &c.] is an appellation of (assumed tropical:) a woman of evil disposition; originating from the fact that the غُلّ used to be of thongs, upon which was hair, so that it became infested with lice. (S.) -A2- Also, and ↓ غُلَّةٌ , (S, O, K,) and ↓ غَلَلٌ , (K,) or this is the inf. n. of غُلَّ, (S,) [and accord. to analogy of غَلَّ as originally غَلِلَ,] and ↓ غَلِيلٌ , (S, O, K,) Thirst: or vehement thirst: (K, TA:) or the burning of thirst; (S, O, TA;) little or much: (TA:) or burning of the inside, (K, TA,) from thirst, and from anger and vexation (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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