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غَيْطَلٌ ذ is pl. of ↓ غَيْطَلَةٌ , [or rather a coll. gen. n. of which the latter is the n. un.,] signifying Numerous dense or tangled trees: (S, O:) or the latter word signifies thus: (K:) or it (the latter) signifies also dense, or tangled, trees: (S, O:) or both signify thus: and also anything confused, or mixed: (Ham p. 213:) or the latter has this last meaning: and signifies also a collection of trees and of herbs; (AHn, TA;) and a collection of [the common tamarisks, called] طَرْفَآء; (K, TA;) as AHn says on one occasion. (TA.) ― -b2- And [the former, or perhaps both words,] The light of the dawn when mingling with the darkness of the night. (Ham p. 213 [q. v.].) ― -b3- And غَيْطَلُ الضُّحَى signifies حَيْثُ تَكُونُ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَشْرِقِهَا كَهَيْئَتِهَا مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا وَقْتَ الظُّهْرِ, (JK, O, and so in copies of the K,) or بَعْدَ الظُّهْرِ, (accord. to the text of the K in the TA,) or وَقْتَ العَصْرِ: (so in some copies of the K, as mentioned in the TK:) [the last is evidently the right reading; and the meaning, The period of the earlier part of the forenoon, after sunrise, when the sun is distant from its place of rising like as it is from its place of setting at the time of the عَصْر (q. v.): الظهر is probably an old mistranscription.] -A2- Also Beasts of the bovine kind, bulls or cows. (TA.) [See also غَيْطَلَةٌ, last explanation.] ― -b2- And The cat: (K, TA:) as also خَيْطَلٌ: on the authority of Kr. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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