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3 مُغَاوَلَةٌ ذ is syn. with مُبَادَرَةٌ [The hastening, making haste, or striving to be first or beforehand, in doing or attaining or obtaining a thing], (S, O, K, TA,) [or] in journeying, &c. (TA.) Jereer says, (S, O,) or El-Akhtal, (so in the TA,) mentioning a man upon whom horsemen had made a sudden attack, (S, TA,) “ عَايَنْتُ مُشْعِلَةَ الرِعَالِ كَأَنَّهَا
طَيْرٌ تُغَاوِلُ فِى شَمَامٍ وُكُورَا
” [I saw those that were spreading themselves of the small parties of horsemen, as though they were birds hastening to nests in (the mountain of) Shemám]. (S, O, TA.) And it is related in a trad. of 'Ammár, that he was brief in prayer, and said, كُنْتُ أُغَاوِلُ حَاجَةً لِى [I was hastening to accomplish a want that I had]. (TA.) And in a trad. of Keys Ibn-'Ásim, [it is related that he said,] كُنْتُ أُغَاوِلُهُمْ فِى الجَاهِلِيَّةِ i. e. I used to strive to be beforehand with them (أُبَادِرُهُمْ) in making a sudden attack or incursion, and in doing mischief, [in the Time of Ignorance:] or, as some relate it, it is with ر [i. e. كُنْتُ أُغَاوِرُهُمْ I used to make sudden attacks or incursions upon them]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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