The corpus record — Arabic
ghawl
gawolN * Far extent of a desert, or waterless desert; (S, O, TA;) because it destroys him who passes along in it: (S, TA:) or of a land; because it casts away the travellers, or wayfarers, causes them to fall, or drop down, and removes them far away: and accord. to Lh, it is said of a land when one
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1. غَوْلٌ
gawolN * Far extent of a desert, or waterless desert; (S, O, TA;) because it destroys him who passes along in it: (S, TA:) or of a land; because it casts away the travellers, or wayfarers, causes them to fall, or drop down, and removes them far away: and accord. to Lh, it is said of a land when one
2. غُولٌ
guwlN * 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, laA guwla ; by which, however, …
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Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.
